Prose Literature for Secondary Schools: With Some Suggestions for Correlation with CompositionMargaret Ashmun Houghton Mifflin, 1910 - 290 Seiten |
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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 73 - 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 286 - I now wish to make the personal acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong.
Seite 73 - I liked it much better than that of my father, but still had a hankering for the sea. To prevent the apprehended effect of such an inclination, my father was impatient to have me bound to my brother. I stood out some time, but at last was persuaded, and signed the indentures when I was yet but twelve years old.
Seite 72 - 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 264 - 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 76 - 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 270 - 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 265 - " 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 264 - But you could not have removed — you could not have taken to pieces all articles of furniture in which it would have been possible to make a deposit in the manner you mention. A letter may be compressed...
Seite 270 - I fashion the expression on my face, as accurately as possible, in accordance with the expression of his, and then wait to see what thoughts or sentiments arise in my mind or heart, as if to match or correspond with the expression.