Specimens of the Short StoryGeorge Henry Nettleton Henry Holt & Company, 1901 - 229 من الصفحات "This collection of short stories has two purposes : first, to give to the general reader interesting specimens of the best narration; second, within small compass, to supply the teacher or student of English composition with varied and profitable material for study of the art of narrative writing."--Pref. Includes brief introductory biographies of the authors. |
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... emancipation from the drudgery of the East India office . To Barton , the " Quaker poet , " he wrote on Feb. 10 , " Oh that I were kicked out of Leadenhall with every mark of in- dignity , and a competence in my fob . The CHARLES LAMB . 3.
... emancipation from the drudgery of the East India office . To Barton , the " Quaker poet , " he wrote on Feb. 10 , " Oh that I were kicked out of Leadenhall with every mark of in- dignity , and a competence in my fob . The CHARLES LAMB . 3.
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... wrote again to Barton , " I have a glimpse of freedom , of becoming a gentleman at large ; but I am put off from day to day . I have offered my resignation , and it is neither accepted nor rejected . Eight weeks am I kept in this ...
... wrote again to Barton , " I have a glimpse of freedom , of becoming a gentleman at large ; but I am put off from day to day . I have offered my resignation , and it is neither accepted nor rejected . Eight weeks am I kept in this ...
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... wrote An Apology for Idlers ; Irving , too , sketched his Idler so sympathetically that Rip remains one of the most lovable figures in English fiction . Rip Van Winkle . * A POSTHUMOUS WRITING OF DIEDRICH KNICKERBOCKER . 1819 . ( From ...
... wrote An Apology for Idlers ; Irving , too , sketched his Idler so sympathetically that Rip remains one of the most lovable figures in English fiction . Rip Van Winkle . * A POSTHUMOUS WRITING OF DIEDRICH KNICKERBOCKER . 1819 . ( From ...
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... wrote one of the earliest accounts of the province . Peter was the most ancient inhabitant of the village , and well versed in all the wonderful events and traditions of the neighborhood . He recol- lected Rip at once , and corroborated ...
... wrote one of the earliest accounts of the province . Peter was the most ancient inhabitant of the village , and well versed in all the wonderful events and traditions of the neighborhood . He recol- lected Rip at once , and corroborated ...
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... wrote calmly in the Preface to The Marble Faun , " No author , without a trial , can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow , no antiquity , no mystery , no picturesque and gloomy wrong ...
... wrote calmly in the Preface to The Marble Faun , " No author , without a trial , can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow , no antiquity , no mystery , no picturesque and gloomy wrong ...
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answered appeared Book Bret Harte brother burlesque called Cambacères camp character Charles Charles Darnay Charles Lamb Christ's Hospital cried Dame Van Winkle dead dealer Dickens Dickens's Dictionary Doctor door Duchess Dupin Ernest eyes father followed Fort Christina French Gathergold hand Hawthorne Hawthorne's head heard heart Illyria Irish Irving knew Knickerbocker Lamb Lamb's Lanty Lever literary lived London looked Manette's Markheim mind Minister Mother Shipton mountain Murders Napoleon never night novel Oakhurst Old Stony Phiz Outcasts of Poker paper Paris Peninsular War personage Peter Stuyvesant Phil Fogarty Pickwick Papers Piney Place Vendôme Poe's poet Poker Flat poor Prefect prophecy Purloined Letter replied Rip Van Winkle romance seemed short story side sketch smile Stevenson Stone Face Superannuated Thackeray Thackeray's thing thought tion took truth turned Uncle Billy valley village voice Washington Irving words write wrote
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الصفحة 15 - 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. 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 37 - Hudson and his crew are at their game of ninepins ; and it is a common wish of all henpecked husbands in the neighborhood, when life hangs heavy on their hands, that they might have a quieting draught out of Rip Van Winkle's flagon.
الصفحة 76 - If his very initial sentence tend not to the outbringing of this effect, then he has failed in his first step. In the whole composition there should be no word written, of which the tendency, direct or indirect, is not to the one preestablished design.
الصفحة 30 - There was, as usual, a crowd of folk about the door, but none that Rip recollected. The very character of the people seemed changed.
الصفحة 22 - Panting and fatigued, he threw himself, late in the afternoon, on a green knoll covered with mountain herbage, that crowned the brow of a precipice. From an opening between the trees he could overlook all the lower country for many a mile of rich woodland. He saw at a distance the lordly Hudson, far, far below him, moving on its silent but majestic course, with the reflection of a purple cloud, or the sail of a lagging bark, here and there sleeping on its glassy bosom, and at last losing itself in...
الصفحة 36 - 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 been a revolutionary war, that the country had thrown off the yoke of old England...
الصفحة 31 - ... 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 he meant to breed a riot in the village. "Alas! gentlemen...
الصفحة 32 - Where's Van Bummel, the schoolmaster?" "He went off to the wars too, was a great militia general, and is now in congress." Rip's heart died away at hearing of these sad changes in his home and friends, and finding himself thus alone in the world. Every answer puzzled him too, by treating of such enormous lapses of time, and of matters which he could not understand: war— congress— Stony Point— he had no courage to ask after any more friends, but cried out in despair, "Does nobody here know Rip...
الصفحة 14 - CARTWRIGHT. [The following Tale was found among the papers of the late Diedrich Knickerbocker, an old gentleman of New York, who was very curious in the Dutch history of the province, and the manners of the descendants from its primitive settlers. His historical researches, however, did not lie so much among books as among men; for the former are lamentably scanty on his favorite topics; whereas he found the old burghers, and still more their wives, rich in that legendary lore, so invaluable to true...
الصفحة 16 - At the foot of these fairy mountains, the voyager may have descried the light smoke curling up from a village, whose shingleroofs gleam among the trees, just where the blue tints of the upland melt away into the fresh green of the nearer landscape.