Standard Catalog: Biography Section: About 1150 Titles of the Most Representative, Interesting and Useful Biographies, Volumen1H.W. Wilson Company, 1927 - 129 páginas |
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Página 4 - Brief sketches of seventy women, 'who in all ages, all lands and in all womanly occupations have won fame and put their imprint on the world's history.
Página 18 - The Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a View of the Primary Causes and Movements of " The Thirty-years
Página 37 - Yet that which gives these stories an inestimable worth is what for want of a better term we may call their atmosphere. They are legendary, worked over, exaggerated, false even, if you please, but they give us with a vivacity and intensity of coloring something that we shall search for in vain elsewhere the surroundings in which St. Francis lived.
Página 82 - FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW,' . . . 230 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ANTHONY TROLLOPE CHAPTER I. MY EDUCATION. 1815-1834. I'N writing these pages, which, for the want of a better name, I shall be fain to call the autobiography of so insignificant a person as myself, it will not be so much my intention to speak of the little details of my private life...
Página 65 - Why I am so wise. Why I am so clever. Why I write such good books. Why I am a destiny [Schicksat].
Página 40 - It is indeed so short that it can be read by the light of a single pair of candles; it is so interesting in its subject, and so alluring in its turns of thought and its style, that in a second and third reading it gives scarcely less pleasure than in the first.
Página 53 - ... as for Lamb, those who love him at all love him so well that it matters little which of his letters they read, or how often they have read them before. Only it is best to select those written in the meridian of his life. The earlier ones are too painful, the later ones too sad. Let us take him at his happiest, and be happy with him for an hour...
Página 39 - In all the region of autobiography, so far as I know it, I do not know quite the like of Mr. Garland's story of his life, and I should rank it with the very greatest of that kind in literature."— William Dean Howells in tht New York Times.
Página 37 - ... Francis, but Sabatier, in his great critical work on St. Francis, p. 415, et seq., goes so fully into the authorities for these Fioretti that nothing more need be said in this paper except to copy a couple of short extracts. THE FIORETTI. "With the Fioretti we enter definitely the domain of legend. This literary gem relates the life of Francis, his companions and disciples, as it appeared to the popular imagination at the beginning of the fourteenth century. We have not to discuss the literary...
Página 21 - IN the whole of English biographical literature there is no book that can compare in widespread interest with the Life of Charlotte Bronte by Mrs.