About Old Story-tellers: Of how and when They Lived, and what Stories They ToldScribner, Armstrong, and Company, 1878 - 221 ページ Selections from such traditional favorites as Gulliver's travels, The Arabian nights, Robinson Crusoe, and Ivanhoe accompanied by background information on the authors, the times in which they lived, and the origins of the stories. |
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Aladdin Antoine Galland Apollyon Arabian Nights Athelstane aunt Effie Bagdad beautiful better bird Bois-Guilbert brave Brobdingnag brought Bunyan Burchell Caliph called Cedric charming Christian Daniel Defoe dare say daughter Dean Swift Defoe delightful Doctor Doubting Castle England famous father Faust fellow gave Genie giant girl golden Goldsmith gone Great-Heart Gulliver Gutenberg Guy Mannering Haroun heard heart Ivanhoe John Bunyan Jorinda kindly king knew Lady lamp lived look magician marriage married never Olivia palace poor Goldy Primrose princess printed prison Rebecca remember rich Robinson Crusoe Rowena Saladin Sindbad Sophia story story-tellers strange Strasburg street Sultan sure Swift talk tell Templars thing Thornhill thought told Tom Purdy took uncle Vicar Vicar of Wakefield voyage Walter Scott wife woman wonder writing wrote young
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106 ページ - And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
208 ページ - Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an uninhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates. Written by Himself.
40 ページ - that the happy time may come when a Bible shall be chained in every church, for every Christian man to look upon. You remember when our brother Hunte showed us the chained books in the Library at Oxford. So a century or two hence a Bible may be found in every parish. Twelve thousand parishes in England ! We should want more paper in that good day, Master Richard.
204 ページ - Who, as if he had made it strange that such a question should be asked, or as if he had said, " Lord, dost thou see that I am blind, and yet ask me what thou shalt do for me ? " my answer is plain in my misery, " Lord, that I may receive my sight.
206 ページ - Horace ; his journal entries are all pindarics, and his ledger is all heroics ; he is truly dramatic from one end to the other through the whole scene of his trade ; and as the first part is all Comedy, so the two last acts are...
viii ページ - People," Mr. Mitchell very charmingly says: " In the matter of books, as in the world, I believe in old friends, and don't think they should be laid away upon the shelf without good cause, and age is hardly cause enough. In short, I must confess a lurking fondness for those good old-fashioned stories which were current forty years ago and some of them, may be a hundred years ago — written in good straightforward English, with good straightforward intent.
43 ページ - ... Mrs. Hannah More, for the book is not in her style ; nor did the author of " Little Women." You could never guess who wrote " The Arabian Nights," — for nobody knows when those stories were first written. It seems very odd that a book should be made, and no one able to tell when it was made. The publishers don't allow such things to happen nowadays. Yet it is even so with the book we are talking of. Of course it is possible to fix the date of the many translations of " The Arabian Nights "...
39 ページ - Him, and also am bounden to pray for my father's and mother's souls, that in my youth set me to school, by which, by the sufferance of God, I get my living I hope truly.
31 ページ - Faust, who was a skillful worker in metals, ran types in a mould ; and these were probably the first cast types ever made. These promised so well that Faust determined to get rid of Gutenberg, and to carry on the business with Schoffer, to whom he gave his only daughter Christine for a wife. Faust called on Gutenberg for his loan shortly after, which Gutenberg could not pay ; and in consequence he had to give up to Faust all his tools, his presses, and his unfinished work, among which was a Bible...