The Young Folks' Library: A book of famous myths and legendsHall & Locke, 1901 |
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الصفحة xvii
... once spoken in the far East , by the men from whom most of us in this land descend . Still others maintain that all Myths are the product of a low state of the savage mind , and that this is seen in certain bad and cruel traits that yet ...
... once spoken in the far East , by the men from whom most of us in this land descend . Still others maintain that all Myths are the product of a low state of the savage mind , and that this is seen in certain bad and cruel traits that yet ...
الصفحة xviii
... once known to all , but in time became changed into new shapes , often through ignorance and bad passions of the heart and mind . Myths and Legends grow up sometimes on the same spot , and about the same names . Thus the Romance of King ...
... once known to all , but in time became changed into new shapes , often through ignorance and bad passions of the heart and mind . Myths and Legends grow up sometimes on the same spot , and about the same names . Thus the Romance of King ...
الصفحة xx
... once a real moral warn- ing attached to them . In the same way the stories of Tannhäuser , of Gudrun , Roland , Olger the Dane , Havelok , and many stories of the Arthur - Romance , like the tale of Guenevere and Launcelot , had a moral ...
... once a real moral warn- ing attached to them . In the same way the stories of Tannhäuser , of Gudrun , Roland , Olger the Dane , Havelok , and many stories of the Arthur - Romance , like the tale of Guenevere and Launcelot , had a moral ...
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... once was fond of music ( in spite of an idle story about his ears , which were said to resemble those of an ass ) , the only music for poor Midas , now , was the chink of one coin against another . At length ( as people always grow more ...
... once was fond of music ( in spite of an idle story about his ears , which were said to resemble those of an ass ) , the only music for poor Midas , now , was the chink of one coin against another . At length ( as people always grow more ...
الصفحة 28
... once or twice fancied that she saw a face not so lovely , or something or other that was disagreeable , and which stole the beauty out of all the rest . Nevertheless , on looking more closely , and touching the spot with her finger ...
... once or twice fancied that she saw a face not so lovely , or something or other that was disagreeable , and which stole the beauty out of all the rest . Nevertheless , on looking more closely , and touching the spot with her finger ...
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
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.