| | 241 | Author: | Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911 | Add | | | Title: | Malbone: an Oldport romance  | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | AS one wanders along this southwestern promontory of the Isle of Peace, and looks
down upon the green translucent water which forever bathes the marble slopes of the
Pirates' Cave, it is natural to think of the ten wrecks with which the past winter
has strewn this shore. Though almost all trace of their presence is already gone, yet
their mere memory lends to these cliffs a human interest. Where a stranded vessel
lies, thither all steps converge, so long as one plank remains upon another. There
centres the emotion. All else is but the setting, and the eye sweeps with
indifference the line of unpeopled rocks. They are barren, till the imagination has
tenanted them with possibilities of danger and dismay. The ocean provides the scenery
and properties of a perpetual tragedy, but the interest arrives with the performers.
Till then the shores remain vacant, like the
great conventional arm-chairs of the French drama, that wait for Rachel to come and
die. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 245 | Author: | Page, Thomas Nelson | Add | | | Title: | Marse Chan; A Tale of Old Virginia | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | ONE afternoon, in the autumn of 1872, I was riding leisurely down the sandy road that
winds along the top of the water-shed between two of the smaller rivers of eastern
Virginia. The road I was travelling, following "the ridge" for miles, had just struck
me as most significant of the character of the race whose only avenue of
communication with the outside world it had formerly been. Their once splendid
mansions, now fast falling to decay, appeared to view from time to time, set back far
from the road, in proud seclusion, among groves of oak and hickory, now scarlet and
gold with the early frost. Distance was nothing to this people; time was of no
consequence to them. They desired but a level path in life, and that they had, though
the way was longer, and the outer world strode by them as they dreamed. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 246 | Author: | Prime, William C. | Add | | | Title: | Tent Life in the Holy Land | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | To see the sun go down beyond the Sepulchre and rise over the mountain of the Ascension, to
bare my forehead to the cold dews of Gethsemane, and lave my dim eyes in the
waters of Siloam, to sleep in the company of the infinite host above the oaks of
Mamre, and to lie in the starlight of Bethlehem and catch, however faintly, some
notes of the voices of the angels, to wash off the dust of life in the Jordan,
to cool my hot lips at the well of Samaria, to hear the murmur of Gennesareth,
giving me blessed sleep — was not all this worth dreaming of
— worth living for — was it not worth dying for? | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 247 | Author: | Shillaber, Benjamin Penhallow | Add | | | Title: | Life and Sayings of Mrs. Partington and others of the family | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | NOW, Isaac," said Mrs. Partington, as she came into the room with a
basket snugly covered over, "take our Tabby, and drop her somewhere, and see
that she don't come back again, for I am sick and tired of driving her out of
the butter. She is the thievinest creatur! But don't hurt her, Isaac; only take
care that she don't come back." | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 248 | Author: | Stewart, Calvin | Add | | | Title: | Uncle Josh Weathersby's "Punkin Centre Stories" | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE author was born in Virginia, on a little patch of land, so poor we had to
fertilize it to make brick. Our family, while having cast their fortunes with
the South, was not a family ruined by the war; we did not have anything when the
war commenced, and so we held our own. I secured a common school education, and
at the age of twelve I left home, or rather home left me—things just
petered out. I was slush cook on an Ohio River Packet; check clerk in a stave
and heading camp in the knobs of Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia; I helped lay
the track of the M. K. & T. R. R., and was chambermaid in a livery
stable. Made my first appearance on the stage at the National Theatre in
Cincinnati, Ohio, and have since then chopped cord wood, worked in a coal mine,
made cross ties (and walked them), worked on a farm, taught a district school
(made love to the big girls), run a threshing machine, cut bands,
fed the machine and ran the engine. Have been a freight and passenger brakeman,
fired and ran a locomotive; also a freight train conductor and check clerk in a
freight house; worked on the section; have been a shot gun messenger for the
Wells, Fargo Company. Have been with a circus, minstrels, farce comedy,
burlesque and dramatic productions; have been with good shows, bad shows,
medicine shows, and worse, and some shows where we had landlords singing in the
chorus. Have played variety houses and vaudeville houses; have slept in a box
car one night, and a swell hotel the next; have been a traveling salesman (could
spin as many yarns as any of them). For the past four years have made the Uncle
Josh stories for the talking machine. The Lord only knows what next! | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 249 | Author: | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 | Add | | | Title: | The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | I found Simon Wheeler dozing comfortably by the bar-room stove of
the old, dilapidated tavern in the ancient mining camp of Boomerang,
and I noticed that he was fat and bald-headed, and had an expression
of winning gentleness and simplicity upon his tranquil countenance.
He roused up and gave me good-day. I told him a friend of mine had
commissioned me to make some inquiries about a cherished companion
of his boyhood named Leonidas W. Smiley — Rev. Leonidas W. Smiley
— a young minister of the Gospel, who he had heard was at one time
a resident of this village of Boomerang. I added that if Mr. Wheeler
could tell me any thing about this Rev. Leonidas W. Smiley, I would
feel under many obligations to him. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 250 | Author: | Washington, Booker T. | Add | | | Title: | Negro Progress in Virginia | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE members of the colored race who live outside of Virginia are
beginning to grow somewhat jealous of the progress which our race is
making in this commonwealth. The Negro race in Virginia is going
forward, in my opinion, in all the fundamental and substantial things of
life, faster than the Negro himself realizes and faster than his white
neighbor realizes. I say this notwithstanding there are many existing
weaknesses and much still to be accomplished. This progress which
Virginia Negroes are now experiencing is owing to two causes. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 252 | Author: | Booker, James, 1840-1923 | Add | | | Title: | Letter to Chloe Unity Blair, fragment, n.d. [a machine-readable
transcription] | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Bookerletters | | | | Description: | James Reynolds sends his best respects to you,
I was verry sorry to hear that my sweetheart
was about to leave me, to hunt for another one in such a time as
this,
tho if she sees eny body
that she likes better than she does me she can have my concent to take him, and I will go another way, | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 253 | Author: | Booker, James, 1840-1923, and Blair, A. | Add | | | Title: | Letter to Chloe Unity Blair with inclusion from A. Blair [a
machine-readable transcription] | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Bookerletters | | | | Description: | I have no doubt
But what you think by my long silence that I have
forgoten
you
tho
Ill have you to know thatsuchis not thecase I have bin waiting to find out whare we
had to be stationed we are at
winchester,
now I dont know how long
weel have to stay here, I
am in hopes that we will stay here for some time,
we have elegant water and a plenty of it, and a
plenty of good
pervision so far, and a fine chance of
beutyful young Ladies, and the kind est that I ever saw in my life, and the most
beautiful Country that I ever saw thay have
fine Crops over here, and not
mutch
likely hood of a fight the
yankeys
has gone back to
martainsburg
and it is thought if we get them we will have to go after
them,
a young man that belong to our
Regement got shot yesterday eavening
accedently, and died this eavening the young man that shot him is a
bout to greve him self to deth about it
Thay are both from
martinburg
I dont know neither of them, | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 254 | Author: | Booker, James, 1840-1923 | Add | | | Title: | Letter to Chloe Unity Blair | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Bookerletters | | | | Description: | I received your kind letter last eavning which
gave me great releaf I had not
hird from home
in nearly a month I had concluded
that you all had forgoten us intirely I told the boys if my relation wanted to hear from
me thay would have to write to me for I had
writen three letters to thare one, and if thay
would not write to me, I
w
I would not write to them,
tho I will excuse you for this time if you will
not do so eny more, | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 256 | Author: | Booker, James, 1840-1923 | Add | | | Title: | Letter to Chloe Unity Blair [a machine-readable transcription] | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Bitnerletters | | | | Description: | I received your kind and interrestingletter a few days ago, I was
verry
glad to hear from you all and also to hear from my
sweat hearts I wan to
see them verry bad indeed tho I dont think thare is eny chance for me to git a
furlow, the
Col[1] has promised to let the married men got home when he gets in to
winterquarters, I hird this morning that our Regiment was going to move to
Gainesville this week to fix thar
winter quarters, that is about 12
miles from here back to wards
Wincher ter
rite on the Rail Road[2]
I expect to stay here until
thay get fixed up, and then
thay will move the bag
age to the Regiment I like
ve
to stay here verry
well I get extra pay and have a lighter task
than I would if I were at the Regiment
[3] | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 259 | Author: | Booker, John, 1840-1864 | Add | | | Title: | Letter to Chloe Unity Blair [a machine-readable transcription] | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Bitnerletters | | | | Description: | I have bin long in tenden
write en to you, an
to night
I will tri
an
rite you a few lines in order to let you no how we
are, I am as well as I could exspet
to be under the present sercum stances,
Jimey is quite sick & have bin for the last week,
I dont
no
whats the mater with
him, he have weekened
down as
fast for the last week as I ever saw any one, he
dont eat
any thing
scercely
a tall,
he seems to be restin very
well to night he
dont
complain
but very little, tho I am a
fread
he is a go ing to have a bad spell
I wouldent
be grug
nothen if he wer at
home whare he could
be tended too
beter,
[2]
Fleman,
Grigary
[3]
is quite sick
he has the fe- ver,
they are sevrel more of the
boys complaining, the most of them has the mumps,
Sirous
Burnet[4] a
member of our com pany
dide last week,
Mr, Faris
[5]
expects to start home with Bilia
this week,
Nathanial Robertson
[6]
& Neal gilbert
[7] left here a few days a go, to go
to the harse pittle they expected to get furloughs to go home
from thare,
Clifton Pinick
[8] got here yes
tid day, your letter come to hand in
due time, I wer glad to
here that you wer all well,
Jimey told me to tel you that
he would have ritten to you before now
but he was not
able, | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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