Tanglewood Tales, for Girls and Boys: Being a Second WonderbookJ.R. Osgood and Company, 1875 - 336 pàgines |
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Tanglewood tales for girls and boys, being a second Wonder book Nathaniel Hawthorne Visualització completa - 1855 |
Tanglewood Tales: For Girls and Boys, Being a Second Wonder-book Nathaniel Hawthorne Visualització completa - 1883 |
Tanglewood Tales, for Girls and Boys: Being a Second Wonder-Book Nathaniel Hawthorne Visualització completa - 1856 |
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Pàgina 293 - for the voyage, an unforeseen difficulty threatened to end it before it was begun. The vessel, you must understand, was so long, and broad, and ponderous, that the united force of all the fifty was insufficient to shove her into the water. Hercules, I suppose, had not grown to his full strength, else he might have set
Pàgina 9 - day after day. A few summer weeks among mountains, a lifetime among green meadows and placid slopes, with outlines forever new, because continually fading out of the memory — such would be my sober choice. I doubt whether Eustace did not internally pronounce the whole thing a bore, until I led him to my predecessor's little ruined, rustic
Pàgina 324 - Will he give you the Golden Fleece, without any further risk or trouble ? " " On the contrary," answered Jason, " he is very angry with me for taming the brazen bulls and sowing the dragon's teeth. And he forbids me to make any more attempts, and positively refuses to give up the Golden Fleece, whether
Pàgina 212 - no, dear Proserpina," cried the sea nymphs; " we dare not go with you upon the dry land. We are apt to grow faint, unless at every breath we can snuff up the salt breeze of the ocean. And don't you see how careful we are to let the surf wave break over
Pàgina 229 - the field in which she had been so busy; and, as her work was not half done, the grain looked, next day, as if it needed both sun and rain, and as if it were blighted in the ear, and had something the matter with its roots. The pair of dragons must have had very
Pàgina 73 - But this was one of those unlucky accidents for which nobody is to blame; so that the small folks never took it to heart, and only requested the Giant to be careful forever afterwards to examine the acre of ground where he intended to squat himself. It is a very pleasant picture to imagine
Pàgina 289 - Dodona, whose daughter you are, — tell me, where shall I find fifty bold youths, who will take each of them an oar of my galley ? They must have sturdy arms to row, and brave hearts to encounter perils, or we shall never win the Golden Fleece." "Go," replied the oaken image, "go,
Pàgina 272 - among its black eddies, hurrying tumultuously onward, and roaring angrily as it went. Though not a very broad river in the dry seasons of the year, it was now swollen by heavy rains and by the melting of the snow on the sides of Mount Olympus; and it thundered so loudly, and looked
Pàgina 103 - spanking their little children, waging their little warfare with the cranes, doing their little business, whatever it may be, and reading their little histories of ancient times. In those histories, perhaps, it stands recorded, that, a great many centuries ago, the valiant Pygmies avenged the death of the Giant Antaeus by scaring away the mighty Hercules. THE
Pàgina 293 - often cried out to his companions, that they were sailing over heaps of sunken treasure, which yet he was none the richer for beholding. To confess the truth, few people believed him when he said it. Well! But when the Argonauts, as these fifty brave adventurers were called, had prepared