The Heart of Oak Books: Third Book : Fairy Stories and Classic Tales of AdventureCharles Eliot Norton D.C. Heath, 1899 - 265 Seiten |
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... Wonderful Lamp Piping down the Valleys Wild Written in March The Shepherd Ariel's Song ... Lucy Gray Over hill , over dale The Fly ... A Visit from St. Nicholas .. A Christmas Carol ..... The Adventures of Ulysses 102 Ralph Waldo ...
... Wonderful Lamp Piping down the Valleys Wild Written in March The Shepherd Ariel's Song ... Lucy Gray Over hill , over dale The Fly ... A Visit from St. Nicholas .. A Christmas Carol ..... The Adventures of Ulysses 102 Ralph Waldo ...
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... wonderful soldier who had travelled about inside a fish ; but he was not at all proud . They placed him on the table , and how many curious things do happen in the world ! there he was in the very same room from the window of which he ...
... wonderful soldier who had travelled about inside a fish ; but he was not at all proud . They placed him on the table , and how many curious things do happen in the world ! there he was in the very same room from the window of which he ...
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... wonderful horn that drew crowds around it whenever it was played ; and made every one forget his business to come and dance to its beautiful music . In the morning , each told his story and showed his treasure ; and as they all liked ...
... wonderful horn that drew crowds around it whenever it was played ; and made every one forget his business to come and dance to its beautiful music . In the morning , each told his story and showed his treasure ; and as they all liked ...
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... wonderful purse in his hand . When she asked him what it was , he was foolish enough to tell her ; - though indeed it did not much sig- nify , for she was a witch and knew all the wonderful things that the three soldiers brought . Now ...
... wonderful purse in his hand . When she asked him what it was , he was foolish enough to tell her ; - though indeed it did not much sig- nify , for she was a witch and knew all the wonderful things that the three soldiers brought . Now ...
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... wonderful mountains , and at the end of three days he came to a large and spa- cious wood , through which he must needs pass , when on a sudden , he heard dreadful shrieks and cries ; and upon cast- ing his eyes around to observe what ...
... wonderful mountains , and at the end of three days he came to a large and spa- cious wood , through which he must needs pass , when on a sudden , he heard dreadful shrieks and cries ; and upon cast- ing his eyes around to observe what ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Aladdin Alcinous Ali Baba Antinous asked Athene Baba beautiful began beggar bird Bob-o'-link brother Calypso Cassim cave chee Circe Cogia Hassan Colchis cried Cyclop daughter dead death delight door dreadful duckling Eumæus Eurylochus Eurymachus eyes fast father fear feast fell friends gate gave giant give gods gold guest hand head hear heard Heart of Oak heaven horse Ithaca Jason Jove king King Arthur knew lady lamp lived looked Lord Lovel magician mind Morgiana morning mother Nausicaa never night Ogygia palace Pelias Penelope Phæacian Phineus Phrixus poor princess quoth Jack replied robbers rock sail Scylla ship sight slaves soon Spink stood suitors sultan sword tears Telemachus tell thee thou thought tin soldier Tiresias told took Troy Ulysses Ulysses's wife winds wine wood words young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 47 - I wind about, and in and out, With here a blossom sailing, And here and there a lusty trout, And here and there a grayling, And here and there a foamy flake Upon me as I travel, With many a silvery waterbreak Above the golden gravel...
Seite 101 - And but the booming shots replied, And fast the flames rolled on. Upon his brow he felt their breath, And in his waving hair, And looked from that lone post of death In still yet brave despair. And shouted but once more aloud, "My father! must I stay?
Seite 136 - THE cock is crowing, The stream is flowing, The small birds twitter, The lake doth glitter, The green field sleeps in the sun ; The oldest and youngest Are at work with the strongest ; The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising ; There are forty feeding like one ! Like an army defeated The Snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill...
Seite 100 - THE boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead.
Seite 141 - Swifter than the moon's sphere ; And I serve the fairy queen, To dew her orbs upon the green : The cowslips tall her pensioners be ; In their gold coats spots you see ; Those be rubies, fairy favours, In those freckles live their savours : I must. go seek some dew-drops here, And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.
Seite 142 - ... reindeer, With a little old driver, so lively and quick, I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick! More rapid than eagles his coursers they came, And he whistled and shouted and called them by name. " Now, Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Prancer and Vixen! On, Comet! on, Cupid! on, Donder and Blitzen! — To the top of the porch, to the top of the wall, Now, dash away, dash away, dash away all!
Seite 142 - TwAS the night before Christmas, when all through the house, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that ST.
Seite 47 - I chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles, I bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles. With many a curve my banks I fret By many a field and fallow, And many a fairy foreland set With willow-weed and mallow. I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river ; For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever.
Seite 143 - As I drew in my head, and was turning around, Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound. He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot, And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot; A bundle of Toys he had flung on his back, And he looked like a pedler just opening his pack. His eyes — how they twinkled ! his dimples how merry ! His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry...
Seite 137 - Where the bee sucks, there suck I ; In a cowslip's bell I lie; There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly After summer merrily. Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.