Prose Literature for Secondary Schools: With Some Suggestions for Correlation with CompositionMargaret Ashmun Houghton Mifflin, 1910 - 290 Seiten |
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... light from our conflagration the woods are black . There is a tremendous impression of isolation and lonesome- ness in our situation . We are the prisoners of the night . The woods never seemed so vast and myste- rious . The trees are ...
... light from our conflagration the woods are black . There is a tremendous impression of isolation and lonesome- ness in our situation . We are the prisoners of the night . The woods never seemed so vast and myste- rious . The trees are ...
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... light enough . " " See that mist on the lake , and the light just com- ing on the Gothics ! I'd no idea it was so cold : all the first part of the night I was roasted . " " What were they talking about all night ? " When the party ...
... light enough . " " See that mist on the lake , and the light just com- ing on the Gothics ! I'd no idea it was so cold : all the first part of the night I was roasted . " " What were they talking about all night ? " When the party ...
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... light and shade on either side . Now and then the twitter of an oriole in some pendent nest overhead added , as it were , to the silence . I was yielding myself up wholly to the glamour of the time and place , when suddenly I thought of ...
... light and shade on either side . Now and then the twitter of an oriole in some pendent nest overhead added , as it were , to the silence . I was yielding myself up wholly to the glamour of the time and place , when suddenly I thought of ...
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... lights of the city . In a few minutes more I was to be left alone and defenceless on a dismal highway . When we reached the junction of the Green Lodge road and the turnpike , I felt that I was parting from the only friend I had in the ...
... lights of the city . In a few minutes more I was to be left alone and defenceless on a dismal highway . When we reached the junction of the Green Lodge road and the turnpike , I felt that I was parting from the only friend I had in the ...
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... light illu- mined a lattice - window . I particularly noticed one on the ground floor in an ell of the building , a wide win- dow with diamond - shaped panes - the dining - room . The curtains were looped back , and I could see the ...
... light illu- mined a lattice - window . I particularly noticed one on the ground floor in an ell of the building , a wide win- dow with diamond - shaped panes - the dining - room . The curtains were looped back , and I could see the ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
adventure Athelstane bear bird brother Camp cap'n Charles G. D. Roberts Christmas COLLATERAL READINGS Count crowd dark daughter Disinherited Knight Dominicus Pike door Dupin Ernest Thompson Seton Etreux excitement eyes father feet fire give Goliath green hand hawk head heard Higginbotham hill horse Hubert Indians Kimballton kind letter literature lively Locksley lodge look minister Miss Arletta morning Nathaniel Hawthorne nest never night Oregon Trail paragraph Parker's Falls party passed peddler person piece pond Prefect Prince John Princess pupils Reynal river road Robert Louis Stevenson Rosy Balm round Sarah Orne Jewett seemed side soon Squire stood story SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY SUGGESTIONS FOR THEME-WRITING Sylvia tell THEME SUBJECTS thing Thomas Bailey Aldrich Thoreau thou thought tion took tree turned village Washington Irving whistle wild woods words writing young lady
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 71 - I now had access to better books. An acquaintance with the apprentices of booksellers enabled me sometimes to borrow a small one, which I was careful to return soon and clean. Often I sat up in my room reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned early in the morning, lest it should be missed or wanted.
Seite 290 - I now wish to make the personal acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong.
Seite 276 - Prefect, its discovery would have been a matter altogether beyond question. This functionary, however, has been thoroughly mystified, and the remote source of his defeat lies in the supposition that the minister is a fool because he has acquired renown as a poet. All fools are poets, this the Prefect feels, and he is merely guilty of a non distributio medii in thence inferring that all poets are fools.
Seite 70 - Historical Collections ; they were small chapmen's books, and cheap, 40 or 50 in all. My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which I read, and have since often regretted that at a time when I had such a thirst for knowledge, more proper books had not fallen in my way, since it was now resolved I should not be a clergyman.
Seite 268 - That of course; and when we had absolutely completed every particle of the furniture in this way, then we examined the house itself. We divided its entire surface into compartments, which we numbered, so that none might be missed; then we scrutinized each individual square inch throughout the premises, including the two houses immediately adjoining, with the microscope, as before.
Seite 85 - The moment this pageant made its appearance, the harper struck up a flourish; at the conclusion of which the young Oxonian, on receiving a hint from the squire, gave, with an air of the most comic gravity, an old carol, the first verse of which was as follows: Caput apri defero Reddens laudes Domino.
Seite 74 - By comparing my work afterwards with the original, I discovered many faults and amended them; but I sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that, in certain particulars of small import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious.
Seite 274 - of the reasoner's intellect with that of his opponent, depends, if I understand you aright, upon the accuracy with which the opponent's intellect is admeasured.
Seite 269 - " We did." "Then," I said, " you have been making a miscalculation, and the letter is not on the premises, as you suppose." " I fear you are right there," said the Prefect. " And now, Dupin, what would you advise me to do ? " " To make a thorough re-search of the premises.
Seite 160 - FROM Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral strand; Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand; From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain.