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الصفحة x
... though easily grasped by considering the length of the average magazine story
. Compression means that nothing must be included that can be left out . Clayton
Hamilton expresses this idea by the convenient phrase economy of means .
... though easily grasped by considering the length of the average magazine story
. Compression means that nothing must be included that can be left out . Clayton
Hamilton expresses this idea by the convenient phrase economy of means .
الصفحة xii
In the whole composition there should be no word written of which the tendency ,
direct or indirect , is not to the one preëstablished design . And by such means ,
with such care and skill , a picture is at length painted which leaves in the mind of
...
In the whole composition there should be no word written of which the tendency ,
direct or indirect , is not to the one preëstablished design . And by such means ,
with such care and skill , a picture is at length painted which leaves in the mind of
...
الصفحة 6
From even this stronghold the unlucky Rip was at length routed by his termagant
wife , who would suddenly break in upon the tranquillity of the assemblage and
call the members all to naught ; nor was that august personage , Nicholas Vedder
...
From even this stronghold the unlucky Rip was at length routed by his termagant
wife , who would suddenly break in upon the tranquillity of the assemblage and
call the members all to naught ; nor was that august personage , Nicholas Vedder
...
الصفحة 10
One taste provoked another ; and he reiterated his visits to the flagon so often
that at length his senses were overpowered , his eyes swam in his head , his
head gradually declined , and he fell into a deep sleep . On waking , he found
himself ...
One taste provoked another ; and he reiterated his visits to the flagon so often
that at length his senses were overpowered , his eyes swam in his head , his
head gradually declined , and he fell into a deep sleep . On waking , he found
himself ...
الصفحة 12
At length he reached to where the ravine had opened through the cliffs to the
amphitheatre ; but no traces of such opening remained . The rocks presented a
high impenetrable wall over which the torrent came tumbling in a sheet of
feathery ...
At length he reached to where the ravine had opened through the cliffs to the
amphitheatre ; but no traces of such opening remained . The rocks presented a
high impenetrable wall over which the torrent came tumbling in a sheet of
feathery ...
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الصفحة 13 - ... 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...
الصفحة 233 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
الصفحة 18 - Rip Van Winkle now! Does nobody know poor Rip Van Winkle?" All stood amazed, until an old woman, tottering out from among the crowd, put her hand to her brow, and peering under it in his face for a moment, exclaimed, "Sure enough it is Rip Van Winkle — it is himself! Welcome home again, old neighbour — Why, where have you been these twenty long years?
الصفحة 13 - 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.
الصفحة 78 - I wouldn't mind giving my individual check for fifty thousand francs to any one who could obtain me that letter. The fact is, it is becoming of more and more importance every day; and the reward has been lately doubled. If it were trebled, however, I could do no more than I have done...
الصفحة 190 - ... listening to the man's last words: and when I looked into that face, which had been set as a flint against mercy, I found it smiling with hope." "And do you, then, suppose me such a creature?
الصفحة 16 - Nicholas Vedder?" There was a silence for a little while, when an old man replied, in a thin piping voice, "Nicholas Vedder? why he is dead and gone these eighteen years! There was a wooden tombstone in the churchyard that used to tell all about him, but that's rotten and gone too.
الصفحة xii - A skilful literary artist has constructed a tale. If wise, he has not fashioned his thoughts to accommodate his incidents; but having conceived, with deliberate care, a certain unique or single effect to be wrought out, he then invents such incidents — he then combines such events that may best aid him in establishing this preconceived effect.
الصفحة 71 - And what, after all, is the matter on hand?" I asked. "Why, I will tell you," replied the Prefect, as he gave a long, steady, and contemplative puff, and settled himself in his chair. "I will tell you...
الصفحة 112 - He had devoted himself, however, too unreservedly to scientific studies ever to be weaned from them by any second passion. His love for his young wife might prove the stronger of the two; but it could only be by intertwining itself with his love of science, and uniting the strength of the latter to his own.
معلومات المراجع
| العنوان | The Short-story Academy classics |
| المساهم | William Patterson Atkinson |
| الناشر | Allyn and Bacon, 1916 |
| أصلي من | جامعة كاليفورنيا |
| الكتب ذات التنسيق الرقمي | 6 كانون الأول (ديسمبر) 2007 |
| عدد الصفحات | 238 من الصفحات |
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