| | 321 | Author: | Field, Eugene | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac  | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | AT this moment, when I am about to
begin the most important undertaking
of my life, I recall the sense of abhorrence
with which I have at different times
read the confessions of men famed for
their prowess in the realm of love. These
boastings have always shocked me, for I
reverence love as the noblest of the
passions, and it is impossible for me to conceive
how one who has truly fallen victim to its
benign influence can ever thereafter speak
flippantly of it. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 322 | Author: | Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Works of Henry Fielding, Volume Six: Miscellanies | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | WHEN it was determined to extend the
present edition of Fielding, not merely
by the addition of Jonathan Wild to the
three universally popular novels, but by two volumes
of Miscellanies, there could be no doubt about
at least one of the contents of these latter. The
Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon, if it does not rank
in my estimation anywhere near to Jonathan Wild
as an example of our author's genius, is an invaluable
and delightful document for his character
and memory. It is indeed, as has been pointed
out in the General Introduction to this series, our
main source of indisputable information as to
Fielding dans son naturel, and its value, so far as
it goes, is of the very highest. The gentle and
unaffected stoicism which the author displays
under a disease which he knew well was probably,
if not certainly, mortal, and which, whether mortal
or not, must cause him much actual pain and discomfort
of a kind more intolerable than pain itself;
his affectionate care for his family; even little
personal touches, less admirable, but hardly
less pleasant than these, showing an Englishman's
dislike to be "done'' and an Englishman's
determination to be treated with proper respect, are
scarcely less noticeable and important on the biographical
side than the unimpaired brilliancy of
his satiric and yet kindly observation of life and
character is on the side of literature. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 332 | Author: | Ford, Mary K. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Woman's Progress a Comparison of Centuries | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Ornamental T — men reading THE participation of Mrs. Taft and Mrs. Sherman in the Inauguration
Procession at Washington on the 4th of March, and the fact of their doing so
without provoking any adverse criticism, is a comment upon the position that
women are now taking in public affairs. And yet this state of things has come
about so gradually, it seems so natural that women should be keenly interested in
public as well as domestic questions, that it is hard to realise that not so very long
ago the interests of men and women and all that concerned their mental needs were
considered to have nothing whatever in common. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 334 | Author: | Fox, John | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Knight of the Cumberland | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | HIGH noon of a crisp October day,
sunshine flooding the earth with
the warmth and light of old wine and,
going single-file up through the jagged
gap that the dripping of water has worn
down through the Cumberland Mountains
from crest to valley-level, a gray horse
and two big mules, a man and two young
girls. On the gray horse, I led the
tortuous way. After me came my small
sister—and after her and like her, mule-back, rode the Blight—dressed as she
would be for a gallop in Central Park or
to ride a hunter in a horse show. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 335 | Author: | Fox, John, 1863-1919 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come | | | | Published: | 2001 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE days of that April had been days of mist and rain. Sometimes, for hours,
there would come a miracle of blue sky, white cloud, and yellow light, but
always between dark and dark the rain would fall and the mist creep up the
mountains and steam from the tops—only to roll together from either range,
drip back into the valleys, and lift, straightway, as mist again. So that,
all the while Nature was trying to give lustier life to every living thing
in the lowland Bluegrass, all the while a gaunt skeleton was stalking down
the Cumberland— tapping with fleshless knuckles, now at some unlovely cottage
of faded white and green, and now at a log cabin, stark and gray. Passing
the mouth of Lonesome, he flashed his scythe into its unlifting shadows and
went stalking on. High up, at the source of the dismal little stream, the
point of the shining blade darted thrice into the open door of a cabin set
deep into a shaggy flank of Black Mountain, and three spirits, within, were
quickly loosed from aching flesh for the long flight into the unknown. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 338 | Author: | Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins, 1852-1930 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Copy-Cat, & Other Stories / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THAT affair of Jim Simmons's cats never became known. Two little boys
and a little girl can keep a secret — that is, sometimes. The two
little boys had the advantage of the little girl because they could talk
over the affair together, and the little girl, Lily Jennings, had no
intimate girl friend to tempt her to confidence. She had only little
Amelia Wheeler, commonly called by the pupils of Madame's school "The
Copy-Cat." | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 339 | Author: | Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins, 1852-1930 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | A Guest in Sodom | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | YES that was Benjamin Rice. He has been that way ever since the
affair of the automobile. His mind was run over and killed by that
machine, if minds can be run over and killed, and sometimes I think
they can. I have known Benjamin Rice ever since we were boys
together, and he was smart enough, but he never quite got through
his head the wickedness of the world he had been born into. He
thought everybody else was as good and honest as he was, and when
he found out he was mistaken, it was too much for him. His wife
feels just as I do about it. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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