The Young Folks' Library: A book of famous myths and legendsHall & Locke, 1901 |
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... DEATH OF KING ARTHUR CHILDE HORN THE STORY OF BEOWULF . I. GRENDEL THE MONSTER . II . THE WATER - WITCH III . THE DRAGON'S HOARD PAGE 268 278 288 293 304 314 335 341 346 350 RIP VAN WINKLE BY WASHINGTON IRVING . SELECTIONS FROM OSSIAN ...
... DEATH OF KING ARTHUR CHILDE HORN THE STORY OF BEOWULF . I. GRENDEL THE MONSTER . II . THE WATER - WITCH III . THE DRAGON'S HOARD PAGE 268 278 288 293 304 314 335 341 346 350 RIP VAN WINKLE BY WASHINGTON IRVING . SELECTIONS FROM OSSIAN ...
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... death , but they also lend to it a great and varied charm of color and outline . So Legends some- times take the place of the real facts of history , but usually only add to them some touch of pathos or ten- der human interest . To ...
... death , but they also lend to it a great and varied charm of color and outline . So Legends some- times take the place of the real facts of history , but usually only add to them some touch of pathos or ten- der human interest . To ...
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... death of hearing about the box , and heartily wished that Quick- silver , or whatever was the messenger's name , had left it at some other child's door , where Pandora would never have set eyes on it . So perseveringly as she did babble ...
... death of hearing about the box , and heartily wished that Quick- silver , or whatever was the messenger's name , had left it at some other child's door , where Pandora would never have set eyes on it . So perseveringly as she did babble ...
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... death . When he was but a stripling , he had killed a huge lion , almost as big as the one whose vast and shaggy hide he now wore upon his shoulders . The next thing that he had done was to fight a battle with an ugly sort of monster ...
... death . When he was but a stripling , he had killed a huge lion , almost as big as the one whose vast and shaggy hide he now wore upon his shoulders . The next thing that he had done was to fight a battle with an ugly sort of monster ...
الصفحة 49
... death , from a sense of duty , in order that their ugly figures might never be seen any more . Besides all this , he took to himself great credit for having cleaned out a stable . " Do you call that a wonderful exploit ? " asked one of ...
... death , from a sense of duty , in order that their ugly figures might never be seen any more . Besides all this , he took to himself great credit for having cleaned out a stable . " Do you call that a wonderful exploit ? " asked one of ...
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Aietes Alcinous Anauros answered asked bade Baucis beautiful Beowulf called cave Chalciope Cheiron Circe clouds Colchi comrades cried Cyclops dark daughter earth Epimetheus Eurylochus eyes face fair father feast fell fight Gareth Geraint giant Glooskap gods gold golden apples Golden Fleece Golden Touch grew guests hall hand head hear heard heart Heracles Hercules heroes Hesperides Horn Iolcos island Jason King Arthur King Midas knew land leapt looked magic maidens Marygold Medeia Menelaus mighty milk Minuai mother mountain never night oars Orpheus palace Pandora Pelias Pelion Philemon Phrixus pitcher pray Queen Riminild rock rose round sailed seemed ship shore slay sleep smile song spake stood story strange stranger suitors sword Telemachus tell thee things thou thought Tiphys told took trees Troy Ulysses voice wept wife wind wine wonderful Zeus
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الصفحة 370 - ... government. Happily that was at an end; he had got his neck out of the yoke of matrimony, and could go in and out whenever he pleased without dreading the tyranny of Dame Van Winkle. Whenever her name was mentioned, however, he shook his head, shrugged his shoulders, and cast up his eyes; which might pass either for an expression of resignation to his fate, or joy at his deliverance. He used to tell his story to every stranger that arrived at Mr. Doolittle's hotel.
الصفحة 368 - Ah, poor man, Rip Van Winkle was his name, but it's twenty years since he went away from home with his gun, and never has been heard of since— his dog came home without him; but whether he shot himself, or was carried away by the Indians, nobody can tell. I was then but a little girl.
الصفحة 269 - I made them lay their hands in mine and swear To reverence the King, as if he were Their conscience, and their conscience as their King, To break the heathen and uphold the Christ, To ride abroad redressing human wrongs, To speak no slander, no, nor listen to it, To honor his own word as if his God's, To lead sweet lives in purest chastity, To love one maiden only, cleave to her, And worship her by years of noble deeds, Until they won her...
الصفحة 370 - ... husband, whom Rip recollected for one of the urchins that used to climb upon his back. As to Rip's son and heir, who was the ditto of himself, seen leaning against the tree, he was employed to work on the farm; but evinced an hereditary disposition to attend to anything else but his business.
الصفحة 350 - WHOEVER has made a voyage up the Hudson must remember the Kaatskill mountains. They are a dismembered branch of the great Appalachian family, and are seen away to the west of the river, swelling up to a noble height and lording it over the surrounding country.
الصفحة 358 - Passing through the ravine, they came to a hollow, like a small amphitheatre, surrounded by perpendicular precipices, over the brinks of which impending trees shot their branches, so that you only caught glimpses of the azure sky, and the bright evening cloud.
الصفحة 354 - The moment Wolf entered the house his crest fell, his tail drooped to the ground, or curled between his legs, he sneaked about with a gallows air, casting many a sidelong glance at Dame Van Winkle, and at the least flourish of a broomstick or ladle he would fly to the door with yelping precipitation.
الصفحة 353 - Rip Van Winkle, however, was one of those happy mortals, of foolish, well-oiled dispositions, who take the world easy, eat white bread or brown, whichever can be got with least thought or trouble, and would rather starve on a penny than work for a pound. If left to...
الصفحة 369 - Half-moon; being permitted in this way to revisit the scenes of his enterprise, and keep a guardian eye upon the river and the great city called by his name. That his father had once seen them in their old Dutch dresses playing at ninepins in a hollow of the mountain; and that he himself had heard, one summer afternoon, the sound of their balls, like distant peals of thunder.
الصفحة 360 - One taste provoked another; and he reiterated his visits to the flagon so often that at length his senses were over-powered, his eyes swam in his head, his head gradually declined, and he fell into a deep sleep.