| | 66 | Author: | | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Studies in Bibliography, Volume 48 (1995)  | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | | Studies in Bibliography | | | | Description: | Most of this volume consists of essays designed to honor J. D.
Fleeman on the completion of his life's principal endeavour,
a comprehensive bibliography of Samuel Johnson. Galvanized
by two of David's ardent admirers, Professor Daisuke
Nagashima and Professor Howard D. Weinbrot, we as co-editors
found ourselves casting a net from—if not China to
Peru—then Oxford to Otago. That the field of potential
contributors proved so diverse and so distinguished is one
measure of David's achievement. Throughout his career, he
devoted himself selflessly to the work of others; indeed,
several of the articles included in this volume bear his
direct imprint. All exemplify one of his most cherished
ideals—that of scholarly community. For David, no
pains were excessive when it came to teaching, learning, and
collaborating. As a consequence, the epigraph to this
collection might well be taken (with the change of a single
pronoun) from King Alfred's preface to his version of
Gregory's Cura Pastoralis: "Her mon
maeg giet gesion hiora swaeth." | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 75 | Author: | Appleton, Victor | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | TOM SWIFT, who had been slowly looking
through the pages of a magazine, in the contents
of which he seemed to be deeply interested,
turned the final folio, ruffled the sheets back
again to look at a certain map and drawing, and
then, slapping the book down on a table before
him, with a noise not unlike that of a shot,
exclaimed: | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 79 | Author: | Austin, Mary | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Art Influence in the West | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | WHOEVER undertakes to discuss art influence brings up sooner or
later at the Greeks. I prefer to begin there, and to begin with that one of
its sources which is not peculiarly Greek, but eternal: I mean with
Greece. Whatever a people may make will resemble the thing that people
look on most; so that the first guess as to what is likely to come out of
any quarter is a knowledge of the land itself, its keen peaks,
round-breasted hills, and bloomy valleys. Greek polity had never so
much to do with the surpassingness of Hellenic art as the one thing the
Hellenes had nothing whatever to do with—the extraordinary beauty of
the land in which they lived. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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