| | 101 | Author: | Taylor, Bayard | Add | | | Title: | Views A-Foot; Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff  | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | [from Chapter XIX, "Leipsic and Dresden"] The railroad
brought us in three hours from Leipsic, over the eighty miles of plain
that intervene. We came from the station through the Neustadt,
passing the Japanese Palace and the equestrian statue of Augustus the
Strong. The magnificent bridge over the Elbe was so much injured by the
late inundation as to be impassable, and we were obliged to go some
distance up the river bank and cross on a bridge of boats. Next morning
my first search was for the Picture Gallery. We set off at random, and
after passing the Church of Our Lady, with its lofty dome of solid
stone, which withstood the heaviest bombs during the war with Frederick
the Great, came to an open square, one side of which was occupied by an
old, brown, red-roofed building,
which I at once recognized as the
object of our search. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 103 | Author: | Turgenev, Ivan | Add | | | Title: | The Living Mummy | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | "A DRY fisherman and a wet hunter make sorry figures," says the French proverb.
Never having had any turn for angling, I can form no opinion as to the feelings
of a fisherman in fine sunny weather — or tell how far, in foul
weather, the satisfaction he obtains from a good catch makes up for the
unpleasantness of getting drenched. But, for any one out shooting, rain is an
actual disaster. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 104 | Author: | Trites, W.B. | Add | | | Title: | Dostoievsky | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE Slav peril has been much talked about of late. Now
the Slav peril means, if it means anything, Russian thought;
and Russian thought, as it reveals itself in Russian literature and Russian dancing, seems to me the most splendid and
most desirable thought in the world to-day. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 105 | Author: | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 | Add | | | Title: | Our Fellow Savages of the Sandwich Islands (version 1) | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Ladies and gentlemen: The next lecture in this course will be delivered this evening, by Samuel L.
Clemens, a gentleman whose high character and unimpeachable integrity are only equalled by his
comeliness of person and grace of manner. And I am the man! I was obliged to excuse the
chairman from introducing me, because he never compliments anybody and I knew I could do it
just as well. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 107 | Author: | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 | Add | | | Title: | The American Vandal Abroad | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | I am to speak of the American Vandal this evening, but I wish to say
in advance that I do not use this term in derision or apply it as a
reproach, but I use it because it is convenient; and duly and properly
modified, it best describes the roving, independent, free-and-easy
character of that class of traveling Americans who are not
elaborately educated, cultivated, and refined, and gilded and filigreed
with the ineffable graces of the first society. The best class of our
countrymen who go abroad keep us well posted about their doings in
foreign lands, but their brethren vandals cannot sing their own praises
or publish their adventures. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 111 | Author: | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 | Add | | | Title: | Twain, Mark: Selected Obituaries | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | It will be many a day before the people of the United States forget
Mark Twain, the man. Since far back in the 70's he had been one of our
national celebrities, and perhaps the greatest of the clan, beaming,
expansive and kindly: a star at all great public feasts; the friend of
Presidents and millionaires, of archbishops and actors, welcome
everywhere and always in good humor, a fellow of infinite jest. As the
years passed his picturesque figure grew more and more familiar and
lovable. Every town of any pretensions knew him. He was in ceaseless
motion, making a speech here, taking a degree there, and always dripping
fun. The news that he was to be present was enough to make a success of
anything, from a bacchanal of trust magnates to a convocation of
philologists. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 113 | Author: | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 | Add | | | Title: | Sociable Jimmy | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | [I sent the following home in a private letter some
time ago from a certain little village. It was in
the days when I was a public lecturer. I did it because
I wished to preserve the memory of the
most artless, sociable, and exhaustless talker I ever
came across. He did not tell me a single
remarkable thing, or one that was worth remembering;
and yet he was himself so interested in his
small marvels, and they flowed so naturally and comfortably
from his lips that his talk got the
upper hand of my interest, too, and I listened as one who
receives a revelation. I took down what
he had to say, just as he said it—without
altering a word or adding one.] | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 114 | Author: | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 | Add | | | Title: | The Whittier Birthday Dinner Speech | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THIS is an occasion peculiarly meet for the digging up of pleasant
reminiscences concerning literary folk; therefore I will drop lightly
into history myself. Standing here on the shore of the Atlantic and
contemplating certain of its largest literary billows, I am reminded of
a thing which happened to me thirteen years ago, when I had just
succeeded in stirring up a little Nevadian literary puddle myself, whose
spume-flakes were beginning to blow thinly Californiaward. I started an
inspection tramp through the southern mines of California. I was callow
and conceited, and I resolved to try the virtue of my nom de guerre. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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