Short Stories for English CoursesRosa Mary Redding Mikels C. Scribner's sons, 1920 - 453 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 15 - And some say that it was true; but others say that it was only Gregor and his companions at the lower end of the hall, chanting their Christmas hymn: "'All glory be to God on high, And to the earth be peace! Good-will, henceforth, from heaven to men Begin, and never cease.'
الصفحة 407 - God shall charge His angel legions Watch and ward o'er thee to keep; Though thou walk through hostile regions, Though in desert wilds thou sleep." He gave a contented sigh and lay down. What was there to worry about? It was just his case for which the hymn was written.
الصفحة 85 - must be elaborated to its denouement before anything is attempted with the pen. It is only with the denouement constantly in view that we can give a plot its indispensable air of consequence, or causation, by making the incidents and especially the tone, at all points, tend to the development of the intention.
الصفحة 242 - 1850, AND HANDED IN HIS CHECKS ON THE 7TH DECEMBER, 1850. And, pulseless and cold, with a Derringer by his side and a bullet in his heart, though still calm as in life, beneath the snow lay he who was at once the strongest and yet the weakest of the outcasts of Poker Flat. THE
الصفحة 87 - others? As I was coming home I met Lieutenant G , from the fort, and, very foolishly, I lent him the bug; so it will be impossible for you to see it until the morning. Stay here to-night, and I will send Jup down for it at sunrise. It is the loveliest thing in creation! "
الصفحة 405 - clear and deep his voice went on, following one stanza with its mate: " Since with pure and firm affection Thou on God hast set thy love, With the wings of His protection He will shield thee from above.
الصفحة 208 - Leonidas W. Smiley, I would feel under many obligations to him. Simon Wheeler backed me into a corner and blockaded me there with his chair, and then sat down and reeled off the monotonous narrative which follows this paragraph. He never smiled, he never frowned, he never changed his voice from the gentle-flowing key to which he
الصفحة 433 - in the windy and cloud-navigated sky; and then, at another cadence of the hymn, back again to church, and the somnolence of summer Sundays, and the high genteel voice of the parson (which he smiled a little to recall) and the painted Jacobean tombs, and the dim lettering of the Ten Commandments in the chancel.
الصفحة 100 - What in the name of heaven shall I do? " asked Legrand, seemingly in the greatest distress. " Do! " said I, glad of an opportunity to interpose a word, '' why come home and go to bed. Come now!—• that's a fine fellow. It's getting late, and, besides, you remember your promise." " Jupiter," cried he, without heeding me in
الصفحة ix - There are, so far as I know, three ways and three only of writing a story. You may take a plot and fit characters to it, or you may take a character and choose incidents and situations to develop it, or, lastly, you may take a certain atmosphere and get actions and persons to express and realize it.