| | 45 | Author: | Redgrove, Herbert Stanley, 1887-1943 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Bygone Beliefs / Redgrove, Herbert Stanley.  | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IN the earliest days of his upward evolution man was
satisfied with a very crude explanation of natural
phenomena—that to which the name "animism"
has been given. In this stage of mental development
all the various forces of Nature are personified:
the rushing torrent, the devastating fire, the wind
rustling the forest leaves—in the mind of the animistic
savage all these are personalities, spirits, like himself,
but animated by motives more or less antagonistic
to him. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 47 | Author: | Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | 100% : The Story of a Patriot / by Upton Sinclair | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Now and then it occurs to one to reflect upon what slender threads of
accident depend the most important circumstances of his life; to look
back and shudder, realizing how close to the edge of nothingness his
being has come. A young man is walking down the street, quite casually,
with an empty mind and no set purpose; he comes to a crossing, and for
no reason that he could tell he takes the right hand turn instead of the
left; and so it happens that he encounters a blue-eyed girl, who sets
his heart to beating. He meets the girl, marries her — and she became
your mother. But now, suppose the young man had taken the left hand turn
instead of the right, and had never met the blue-eyed girl; where would
you be now, and what would have become of those qualities of mind which
you consider of importance to the world, and those grave affairs of
business to which your time is devoted? | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 48 | Author: | Verne, Jules, 1828-1905 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Survivors of the Chancellor | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | CHARLESTON, September 27, 1898. — It is
high tide, and three o'clock in the afternoon
when we leave the Battery quay; the ebb
carries us off shore, and as Captain Huntly
has hoisted both main and top sails, the northerly breeze drives the Chancellor briskly
across the bay. Fort Sumter ere long is doubled, the
sweeping batteries of the mainland on our left are soon
passed, and by four o'clock the rapid current of the ebbing
tide has carried us through the harbor mouth. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 55 | Author: | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Poe Collection:
Letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Hiram Haines, Esqr., 1844 August | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Description: | Herewith I send you the August number
of the "Messenger" —
the best number, by far, yet issued.1
Can you oblige me so far as to look it over and
give your unbiassed opinion of its merits and
demerits in the "Constellation"? We need the
assistance of all our friends and count upon yourself
among the foremost. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 57 | Author: | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Thomas White, 1835 July 20 | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Description: | I duly
recd:
both your letters (July 14
th & 16th) together with
the $20 dollars. I am indeed grieved to hear that your health has not
been
improved by your trip I agree with you in thinking that too close
attention to business has been instrumental in causing your
sickness: | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 58 | Author: | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Poe Collection: Autobiographical Fragment | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Description: | Memo. Born January
1811. Family one of the
oldest and most respectable in Baltimore.
Genr
David Poe, my
paternal grandfather, was a quarter-master general, in the
Maryland
line, during the Revolution, and the inti-
mate friend of Lafayette,
who, during his visit to the
U.S., called
personally upon the Gen's widow and
tendered her his warmest acknowledgements for the services
rendered him by her husband. His father, John
Poe married, in England,
Jane
a daughter of Admiral James
McBride, noted in
British naval history, and claim-
ing kindred with many of the most illustrious houses
of Great Britain.
My father and mother died within
a few years of each other, of consumption, leaving me an orphan at 2
years of age. Mr. John Allan, a
very wealthy gentleman of
Richmond Va,
took a fancy to me, and persuaded
my grandfather, Gen.
Poe, to
suffer him to adopt me. Was brought up in
Mr. A's family, and
regarded always as his son and heir—
he having no other children.
In 1816 went with Mr.
A's family to G.
Britain—visited every portion of it—
went to school for 5 years to the
Rev. Doctor
Bransby, at Stoke
Newington, then 4 miles from
London.
Returned to America in 1822. In 1825 went to the Jefferson University at
Charlottesville,
Va, where in 3
years I led a very dissipated life— the college at
that period being shamefully dissolute—
Dr Dunglison
of Philadelphia, President.
Took the first honors, however, and
came home greatly in debt. Mr. A refused
to pay some of the debts of honor and I ran
away from home
without a dollar on a Quixotic expedition to
join the
Greeks, then struggling for liberty. Failed in reaching Greece, but
made my way to St
Petersburg, in
Russia. Got into many difficulties, but was extricated
by the kindness of Mr. H. Middleton, the Am-
erican consul at
St. P. Came
home safe in 1829, found Mrs. A. dead, and immediately went to
West Point
as a Cadet. In about 18 months afterwards
Mr. A. married a second time
(a Miss Patterson,
a near rela-
tive of Gen.
Winfield Scott)—he being then 65 years of age.
Mrs. A
and myself quarrelled, and he, siding
with her, wrote me an angry letter, to which I replied in the same
spirit. Soon afterwards he died, having
had a son by Mrs.
A.
and, although leaving a vast property, bequeathed
me nothing. The army does
not suit a poor man—so I left
W. Point
abruptly, and threw myself upon
literature as a resource.
I became first known to the literary world thus. A
Baltimore weekly paper
(The Visiter) offered two premiums—
one for best prose story, one for the best poem. The Committee awarded
both to me and took occasion
to insert in the journal a card, signed by themselves, in which I was
very highly flattered. The
Committee were John P. Kennedy
(author of Horse-Shoe Robinson),
J. H. B. Latrobe, and
Dr. J. H. Miller.
Soon after this I was invited by
Mr. T. W. White proprietor of the
South. Lit. Messenger, to edit
it.
Afterwards wrote for New York Review at the invitation of
Dr Hawks
and Professor Henry, its proprietors.
Lately have written articles continuously
for two British journals whose names I am not permitted to mention.
In my engagement with Burton, it was not my
design to let my name appear— but he tricked
me into it.2 | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 59 | Author: | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Poe Collection:
Frances Sargent Osgood / Edgar Allan Poe | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Description: | Mrs Osgood,
for the last three or four years, has been rapidly attain-
ing distinction; and this, evidently, with no effort at attaining it. She seems,
in fact, to have no object in view beyond that of giving voice to the fancies
or the feelings of the moment. "Necessity", says the proverb, "is the mother of
Invention"; and the invention of
Mrs O.
,
at least, springs plainly from ne-
cessity — from the necessity of invention.
Not to write poetry — not to act it,
think it, dream it, and be it, is entirely out of her power. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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