| | 2 | Author: | Alger, Horatio, 1832-1899 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Struggling Upward  | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | One Saturday afternoon in January a lively and animated
group of boys were gathered on the western side of a large pond
in the village of Groveton. Prominent among them was a tall,
pleasant-looking young man of twenty-two, the teacher of the
Center Grammar School, Frederic Hooper, A.B., a recent graduate
of Yale College. Evidently there was something of importance
on foot. What it was may be learned from the words of the teacher. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 3 | Author: | Ascham, Roger, 1515-1568 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Scholemaster / Roger Ascham | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | AFter the childe hath learned perfitlie the eight partes of
speach, let him then learne the right ioyning togither of
substantiues with adiectiues, the nowne with the verbe, the
relatiue with the antecedent. And in learninge farther hys
Syntaxis, by mine aduice, he shall not vse the common order
in common scholes, for making of latines: wherby, the childe
Cic. de // commonlie learneth, first, an euill choice of wordes,
Cla. or. // (and right choice of wordes, saith Cæsar, is the
foundation of eloquence) than, a wrong placing
of wordes: and lastlie, an ill framing of the sentence, with
a peruerse iudgement, both of wordes and sentences. These
Making of // faultes, taking once roote in yougthe, be neuer, or
Lattines // hardlie, pluckt away in age. Moreouer, there is
marreth // no one thing, that hath more, either dulled the
Children. // wittes, or taken awaye the will of children from
learning, then the care they haue, to satisfie their masters, in
making of latines. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 4 | Author: | Bland, Henry Meade | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Jack London | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | JACK LONDON has, perhaps as no other American author, put his own
life into his books. He has lived his art. It is this feature of
London's work that makes one ready to prophesy that his sojourn as war
correspondent at the seat of the great conflict between Russia and Japan
will result in, unless the drudgery of newspaper hack-work interferes,
at least one new volume of powerful delineation of life. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 6 | Author: | Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Most Pleasant and Delectable Questions of Love / by Giovanni Boccaccio | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | FLORIO, surnamed Philocopo, accompanied with the
duke Montorio, Ascaleon, Menedon and Massalina,
in sailing to seek his friend Biancofiore, was through
a very obscure and dark night by the fierce winds driven into
great dangers. But the perils once passed, they were cast into
the port of the ancient Parthenope, whereas the mariners
(espying themselves in a haven) received comfort. Not
knowing into what coast fortune had forced him they yielded
thanks to the gods and so tarried the new day, the which
after it once appeared the place was of the mariners descried,
so that they all glad of suretie and of so acceptable arrival,
came ashore, Philocopo with his companions. Who rather
seemed to come forth new-risen again out of their
sepulchres than disbarked from ship, looked back towards the
wayward waters and repeating in themselves the passed
perils of the spent night, could yet scarcely think themselves
in suretie. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 7 | Author: | Bourne, Randolph | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Art of Theodore Dreiser | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Theodore Dreiser has had the good fortune
to evoke a peculiar quality of pugnacious interest among
the younger American intelligentsia such as has
been the lot of almost nobody else writing today unless
it be Miss Amy Lowell. We do not usually take literature
seriously enough to quarrel over it.
Or else we take it so seriously that we urbanely avoid squabbles.
Certainly there are none of the vendettas that rage in a culture
like that of France. But Mr. Dreiser seems
to have made himself, particularly since the
suppression of "The 'Genius,'" a veritable
issue. Interesting and surprising are the
reactions to him. Edgar Lee Masters makes
him a "soul-enrapt demi-urge, walking the
earth, stalking life"; Harris Merton Lyon saw
in him a "seer of inscrutable mien"; Arthur
Davison Ficke sees him as master of a passing
throng of figures, "labored with immortal illusion, the
terrible and beautiful, cruel and
wonder-laden illusion of life"; Mr. Powys
makes him an epic philosopher of the "life-tide";
H. L. Mencken puts him ahead of Conrad, with
"an agnosticism that has almost
passed beyond curiosity." On the other
hand, an unhappy critic in the "Nation" last
year gave Mr. Dreiser his place for all time
in a neat antithesis between the realism that
was based on a theory of human conduct and
the naturalism that reduced life to a mere
animal behavior. For Dreiser this last special
hell was reserved, and the jungle-like and
simian activities of his characters rather exhaustively outlined.
At the time this antithesis looked silly. With the appearance of
Mr. Dreiser's latest book, "A Hoosier Holiday," it becomes nonsensical.
For that wise and delightful book reveals him as a very human critic
of very common human life, romantically sensual and poetically realistic,
with an artist's vision and a thick, warm feeling for American life. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 9 | Author: | Bunyan, John | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Pilgrim's Progress | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | AS I WALKED THROUGH THE WILDERNESS OF THIS world, I lighted on
a certain place where was a Den, and I laid me down in that
place to sleep: and, as I slept, I dreamed a dream. I dreamed,
and behold, I saw a man clothed with rags, standing in a certain
place, with his face from his own house, a book in his hand, and
a great burden upon his back. I looked, and saw him open the
book, and read therein; and, as he read, he wept, and trembled;
and, not being able longer to contain, he brake out with a
lamentable cry, saying, What shall I do? | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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