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 vi
... thing , and say , " This gives us Victor Hugo , " for there would always be something great to be found in some ... things which in time come to give the vi INTRODUCTION .
... thing , and say , " This gives us Victor Hugo , " for there would always be something great to be found in some ... things which in time come to give the vi INTRODUCTION .
الصفحة vii
... thing really is . Let us take , for example , the last two extracts in this book . Sup- pose you read them and like them both . Will they seem to you to be about the same sort of thing ? Probably not . Suppose some one asks , " What is ...
... thing really is . Let us take , for example , the last two extracts in this book . Sup- pose you read them and like them both . Will they seem to you to be about the same sort of thing ? Probably not . Suppose some one asks , " What is ...
الصفحة viii
... thing itself is , this is not easily gained , save by some kind of study . The study must be well directed , of course ; but if it be well directed , the result will be a truer appreciation and a keener enjoyment . II . CHARACTERS AND ...
... thing itself is , this is not easily gained , save by some kind of study . The study must be well directed , of course ; but if it be well directed , the result will be a truer appreciation and a keener enjoyment . II . CHARACTERS AND ...
الصفحة ix
... thing that he saw fell naturally into some bright or attractive form , and the other was a man of moods , who was always thinking over the strange contradictions in human life and the wonderful incon- sistencies in the human soul . But ...
... thing that he saw fell naturally into some bright or attractive form , and the other was a man of moods , who was always thinking over the strange contradictions in human life and the wonderful incon- sistencies in the human soul . But ...
الصفحة x
... thing , the first chapter giving the story of Macbeth is really a re - telling of the story of Shakespeare's tragedy , and the Macbeth of the Tales is the Macbeth of the play , a strong , firmly drawn personage , but presented here only ...
... thing , the first chapter giving the story of Macbeth is really a re - telling of the story of Shakespeare's tragedy , and the Macbeth of the Tales is the Macbeth of the play , a strong , firmly drawn personage , but presented here only ...
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adventurers Alhambra appeared arms army Baltus Van Tassel Banquo Bardell Bardell's began beheld Boabdil Boisberthelot called cannon Carbuncle carronade castle character Cluppins corvette countenance cried deck Dickens Dodson and Fogg door Dutch England English Ernest eyes Gathergold gaze gentlemen Governor Manco Granada gunner hand Hawthorne head heard heart hill horse Ichabod Crane Irving jury killed King lady little judge looked lord Macbeth Macduff Master Bardell mind Minquiers morning mountain neighborhood neighbors never night Old Castile passed Perker Phunky Pickwick Pickwick Papers plaintiff poet pron replied Rip Van Winkle sailor Sam Weller Sanders Scotland Scots Scott Scottish seemed seen Serjeant Buzfuz Serjeant Snubbin side silence Skimpin Sleepy Hollow smiled soldier steed Stone Face stood story tell Thane thing thought tion took trees turned valley Vendée Victor Hugo village voice Wallace Weller whole words
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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.