Thirty More Famous Stories RetoldAmerican Book Company, 1905 - 235 σελίδες |
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Agelaus Alba Longa Amulius answered Antinous army asked Athene Balboa began beggar Bimini Blondel brazen head Cæsar called carried Carthage castle cents cried Croesus Darien Decius Delenda est Carthago door Duke of Austria Eumæus eyes father Faustulus flocks Frederick Barbarossa Friar Bacon friends goats gold Greeks hall hand Hannibal heard hero hill Holy Land horse Hubert King John king's knew Laocoön lir-ra lived looked master mighty Miles mountains never night Numitor palace Penelope Peter Klaus Ponce prince prisoner Remus Rhea Silvia Richard Roman Rome Romulus Romulus and Remus sail Saracens Saum Seistan shepherds ships shore shouted side Simurgh Sinon Solon soon Spain Stephen Langton stood strange suitors Telemachus tell temple things THIRTY MORE FAM thought told Trojans Troy Ulysses voice wagon wall warriors wonderful woodchuck young
Δημοφιλή αποσπάσματα
Σελίδα 37 - I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Σελίδα 15 - Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
Σελίδα 9 - Who among you, gentlemen, can make this egg stand on end ? " One by one those at the table tried the experiment. When the egg had gone entirely around and none had succeeded, all said that it could not be done. Then Columbus took the egg and struck its small end gently upon the table so as to break the shell a little. After that there was no trouble in making it stand upright.