| | 41 | Author: | Brown, Charles Brockden | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist  | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | I WAS the second son of a farmer, whose place of residence was a
western
district of
Pennsylvania. My eldest brother seemed fitted by nature for the
employment to which he was
destined. His wishes never led him astray from the hay-stack and
the
furrow. His ideas never
ranged beyond the sphere of his vision, or suggested the
possibility that
to-morrow could differ
from today. He could read and write, because he had no alternative
between learning the lesson
prescribed to him and punishment. He was diligent, as long as fear
urged
him forward, but his
exertions ceased with the cessation of this motive. The limits of
his
acquirements consisted in
signing his name, and spelling out a chapter in the bible. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 43 | Author: | Burnett, Frances Hodgson | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Little Lord Fauntleroy | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | CEDRIC himself knew nothing whatever about it. It had never
been even mentioned to him. He knew that his papa had
been an Englishman, because his mamma had told him so;
but then his papa had died when he was so little a boy that he could
not remember very much about him, except that he was big, and
had blue eyes and a long mustache, and that it was a splendid thing
to be carried around the room on his shoulder. Since his papa's
death, Cedric had found out that it was best not to talk to his
mamma about him. When his father was ill, Cedric had been sent
away, and when he had returned, everything was over; and his
mother, who had been very ill, too, was only just beginning to sit
in her chair by the window. She was pale and thin, and all the
dimples had gone from her pretty face, and her eyes looked large
and mournful, and she was dressed in black. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 45 | Author: | Burnett, Frances Hodgson | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The White People | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | PERHAPS the things which happened could
only have happened to me. I do not
know. I never heard of things like them
happening to any one else. But I am not sorry
they did happen. I am in secret deeply and
strangely glad. I have heard other people say
things—and they were not always sad people,
either—which made me feel that if they knew
what I know it would seem to them as though
some awesome, heavy load they had always
dragged about with them had fallen from their
shoulders. To most people everything is so
uncertain that if they could only see or hear and
know something clear they would drop upon
their knees and give thanks. That was what I
felt myself before I found out so strangely, and
I was only a girl. That is why I intend to
write this down as well as I can. It will not be
very well done, because I never was clever at all,
and always found it difficult to talk. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 55 | Author: | Cocke, Louisiana Barraud | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Diary and Notes | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The history of all ancient nations is much involved in
obscurity, uncertainty, and contradiction. But as these
adventures of barbarous nations even if they were correctly
recorded could afford no entertainment to men born in a more
cultivated age this uncertainty is not to be regretted. All
Ancient writers agreed in representing the first inhabitants
of Britain as a tribe of Gauls or Belta who setteled that
island from the neighboring continent. The south-east parts
of Britain had allready, before the age of Reason made the
requisite step towards a civil settlement by the
introduction of tillage & agriculture. The other inhabitants
of the island still maintained themselves by pasture. They
were cloathed with the skins of beasts. The religion of the
Britons was one of the most considerable parts of their
government. The Druids who were their priests held great
authority among them. They were the most superstitious
nation in the world at that time. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 56 | Author: | Coleridge, Samuel Taylor | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | An image of a black and white engraving
The illustrator is not identified. The illustration depicts a head
and shoulders portrait of the Ancient Mariner. He is wearing a
brimmed rain hat and rain coat, and his long white hair and beard are
blowing in the wind. His brow furrowed, the Ancient Mariner stares at
something to his left. The words "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
are written in decorative script over the background of the portrait. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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