Six Selections from Irving's Sketch-book: With Notes, Questions, Etc., for Home and School UseGinn & Company, 1878 - 119 من الصفحات |
من داخل الكتاب
النتائج 1-5 من 17
الصفحة iii
... pupils in beginning the study of English Literature , feel warranted by long experience in the school- room in offering certain suggestions . The writer studied should become a friend , a companion ; " for indeed there is something of ...
... pupils in beginning the study of English Literature , feel warranted by long experience in the school- room in offering certain suggestions . The writer studied should become a friend , a companion ; " for indeed there is something of ...
الصفحة xi
... pupils to perceive the real intent of the author , his thoughts and feelings , the strength of his argument , the beauty and nobleness of his sentiment , and his clear , distinct , forcible , and happy expression ; partly by giving a ...
... pupils to perceive the real intent of the author , his thoughts and feelings , the strength of his argument , the beauty and nobleness of his sentiment , and his clear , distinct , forcible , and happy expression ; partly by giving a ...
الصفحة xii
... pupils , and attention to such constructions as require elucidation . This having been done , it will be an excellent practice for the pupils to tell , orally , what they have read in their own language . This may be made a class ...
... pupils , and attention to such constructions as require elucidation . This having been done , it will be an excellent practice for the pupils to tell , orally , what they have read in their own language . This may be made a class ...
الصفحة xiii
... pupils will then be able to understand what is meant by purity of style , and to apply their knowledge in examining this and other selec- tions . The habit , too , which the pupils have formed of seeing the exact meaning of words , and ...
... pupils will then be able to understand what is meant by purity of style , and to apply their knowledge in examining this and other selec- tions . The habit , too , which the pupils have formed of seeing the exact meaning of words , and ...
الصفحة 13
... pupils in beginning the study of English Literature , feel warranted by long experience in the school- room in offering certain suggestions . The writer studied should become a friend , a companion ; " for indeed there is something of ...
... pupils in beginning the study of English Literature , feel warranted by long experience in the school- room in offering certain suggestions . The writer studied should become a friend , a companion ; " for indeed there is something of ...
طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
abbey American Baltus Van Tassel Bracebridge Brom Bones called character Christmas church clauses Cloth clouds Dame Van Winkle Death were raging deep descried distant Dutch Edward the Confessor empire of Death England English Literature expression fancy favorite flaunted friends George Somers give goblin grave Harvard College hatchment head heard heart Hudson humorous Ichabod Crane idle Irving Irving's kind land look Mailing Price mast means Mizraim monument mountain neighborhood neighboring night object passage passed pathetic Peter Stuyvesant poem poor pupils reverie Richard Henry Dana Rip Van Winkle Rip's round sail scene sea voyage selection sentence sepulchre ship shore sketch SKETCH-BOOK Sleepy Hollow sometimes sound squire story SUGGESTIONS OF TOPICS supple-jack teacher thought tion tomb trees village voice volume waves weather Wedgwood Westminster Abbey whistling wild wind words wreck York
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 51 - The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart, see, they bark at me ! " cried Bracebridge, laughing. At the sound of his voice, the bark was changed into a yelp of delight, and in a moment he was surrounded and almost overpowered by the caresses of the faithful animals.
الصفحة 28 - It could not be from the want of assiduity or perseverance ; for he would sit on a wet rock, with a rod as long and heavy as a Tartar's lance, and fish all day without a murmur, even though he should not be encouraged by a single nibble.
الصفحة 44 - It was some time before he could get into the regular track of gossip, or could be made to comprehend the strange events that had taken place during his torpor. How that there had...
الصفحة 36 - ... robbed him of his gun. Wolf too had disappeared ; but he might have strayed away after a squirrel or partridge. He whistled after him and shouted his name, but all in vain; the echoes repeated his whistle and shout, but no dog was to be seen.
الصفحة 38 - It was with some difficulty that he found the way to his own house, which he approached with silent awe, expecting every moment to hear the shrill voice of Dame Van Winkle. He found the house gone to decay — the roof fallen in, the windows shattered, and the doors off the hinges. A half-starved dog that looked like Wolf was skulking about it. Rip called him by name, but the cur snarled, showed his teeth, and passed on. This was an unkind cut indeed. "My very dog," sighed poor Rip, "has forgotten...
الصفحة 28 - Indian corn, or building stone fences ; the women of the village, too, used to employ him to run their errands, and to do such little odd jobs as their less obliging husbands would not do for them. In a word, Rip was ready to attend to anybody's business but his own ; but as to doing family duty, and keeping his farm in order, he found it impossible.
الصفحة 37 - ... country round. Their dress, too, was of a different fashion from that to which he was accustomed. They all stared at him with equal marks of surprise, and whenever they cast their eyes upon him, invariably stroked their chins. The constant recurrence...
الصفحة 26 - 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. Every change of season, every change of weather, indeed every hour of the day, produces some change in the magical hues and shapes of these mountains, and they are regarded by all the good wives, far and near, as perfect barometers.
الصفحة 40 - Rip was equally at a loss to comprehend the question, when a knowing, self-important old gentleman in a sharp cocked hat made his way through the crowd, putting them to the right and left with his elbows as he passed, and planting himself before Van Winkle with one arm akimbo, the other resting on his cane, his keen eyes and sharp hat penetrating, as it were, into his very soul, demanded in an austere tone what brought him to the election with a gun on his shoulder and a mob at his heels, and whether...