Five Great Authors: Complete Characteristic Selections from the Works of Irving, Hawthorne, Scott, Dickens, HugoWilliam Landon Felter University Publishing Company, 1900 - 216 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة v
... better to study the works of several authors than to give all one's time to the study of one only . This book includes selections from five famous authors . The selections are representative , and the authors are representa- tive too ...
... better to study the works of several authors than to give all one's time to the study of one only . This book includes selections from five famous authors . The selections are representative , and the authors are representa- tive too ...
الصفحة viii
... better . You will know of each author what are his strong points , what it is that he does best , what it is that gives especial pleasure in his works rather than another's . You will be able to discriminate . Suppose some one had read ...
... better . You will know of each author what are his strong points , what it is that he does best , what it is that gives especial pleasure in his works rather than another's . You will be able to discriminate . Suppose some one had read ...
الصفحة x
... better known for the characters he created than for anything else . He is famous for humorous incident , too , but his characters are better remembered even than his incidents . The great interest in his novels is rarely an interest in ...
... better known for the characters he created than for anything else . He is famous for humorous incident , too , but his characters are better remembered even than his incidents . The great interest in his novels is rarely an interest in ...
الصفحة xii
... better . III . STYLE . There is an immense amount that may be done in studying the style of an author , and much of it is apt to be very tedious , especially to younger readers . Yet writers will always write differently , and the ...
... better . III . STYLE . There is an immense amount that may be done in studying the style of an author , and much of it is apt to be very tedious , especially to younger readers . Yet writers will always write differently , and the ...
الصفحة xiv
... better idea of the real nature of each author and each extract , so that we shall appreciate each better and enjoy each more . FIVE GREAT AUTHORS . WASHINGTON IRVING . Washington Irving was xiv INTRODUCTION .
... better idea of the real nature of each author and each extract , so that we shall appreciate each better and enjoy each more . FIVE GREAT AUTHORS . WASHINGTON IRVING . Washington Irving was xiv INTRODUCTION .
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الصفحة 26 - The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his person. He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weathercock perched upon his spindle neck to tell which way the wind blew.
الصفحة 18 - A Tory! a Tory! a spy! a refugee! hustle him! away with him!" It was with great difficulty that the selfimportant man in the cocked hat restored order; and, having assumed a tenfold austerity of brow, demanded again of the unknown culprit, what he came there for, and whom he was seeking? The poor man humbly assured him that he meant no harm, but merely came there in search of some of his neighbors, who used to keep about the tavern. "Well — who are they? — name them.
الصفحة 17 - In place of these, a lean biliouslooking fellow, with his pockets full of handbills, was haranguing vehemently about rights of citizens — election — members of Congress — liberty — Bunker's hill — heroes of seventy-six — and other words which were a perfect Babylonish jargon to the bewildered Van Winkle.
الصفحة 7 - ... about it went wrong, and would go wrong in spite of him. His fences were continually falling to pieces; his cow would either go astray or get among...
الصفحة 19 - ... the cocked hat retired with some precipitation. At this critical moment a fresh comely woman pressed through the throng to get a peep at the gray-bearded man. She had a chubby child in her arms, which, frightened at his looks, began to cry. "Hush, Rip," cried she, "hush, you little fool; the old man won't hurt you.
الصفحة 35 - It was one of those spacious farmhouses with high-ridged but lowly-sloping roofs, built in the style handed down from the first Dutch settlers, the low projecting eaves forming a piazza along the front capable of being closed up in bad weather.
الصفحة 43 - ... and the yellow pumpkins lying beneath them, turning up their fair round bellies to the sun, and giving ample prospects of the most luxurious of pies; and anon he passed the fragrant buckwheat fields, breathing the...
الصفحة 11 - 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 19 - The name of the child, the air of the mother, the tone of her voice, all awakened a train of recollections in his mind. "What is your name, my good woman?
الصفحة 14 - ... with liquor, had 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.