The Heart of Oak Books: Third Book : Fairy Stories and Classic Tales of AdventureCharles Eliot Norton |
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... Soldier .. The Golden Goose Robert of Lincoln ... The Blue Light The Walrus and the Carpenter . The Ugly Duckling .. The Brook . Rumpel - Stilts - Kin . The Bee and the Flower .. The Nose . Lord Lovel The Elves and the Shoemaker The ...
... Soldier .. The Golden Goose Robert of Lincoln ... The Blue Light The Walrus and the Carpenter . The Ugly Duckling .. The Brook . Rumpel - Stilts - Kin . The Bee and the Flower .. The Nose . Lord Lovel The Elves and the Shoemaker The ...
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... had well - nigh burst . Then all set out full of joy for the prince's kingdom , where they arrived safely , and lived happily a great many years . THE BRAVE TIN SOLDIER . Hans Christian Andersen . THERE THE HEART OF OAK BOOKS . 15.
... had well - nigh burst . Then all set out full of joy for the prince's kingdom , where they arrived safely , and lived happily a great many years . THE BRAVE TIN SOLDIER . Hans Christian Andersen . THERE THE HEART OF OAK BOOKS . 15.
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... SOLDIER . Hans Christian Andersen . THERE were once five - and - twenty tin soldiers , who were all brothers , for they had been made out of the same old tin spoon . They shouldered arms and looked straight before them . They wore ...
... SOLDIER . Hans Christian Andersen . THERE were once five - and - twenty tin soldiers , who were all brothers , for they had been made out of the same old tin spoon . They shouldered arms and looked straight before them . They wore ...
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... soldier could not see it at all , and he thought that she , like himself , had only one leg . " That is the wife for me , " he thought ; " yet she is too grand , and lives in a castle , while I have only a box to live in , five - and ...
... soldier could not see it at all , and he thought that she , like himself , had only one leg . " That is the wife for me , " he thought ; " yet she is too grand , and lives in a castle , while I have only a box to live in , five - and ...
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... soldier pretended not to hear . " Very well ; wait till to - morrow , then , " said the goblin . When the children came in the next morning , they placed the tin soldier in the window . Now , whether it was the goblin that did it , or ...
... soldier pretended not to hear . " Very well ; wait till to - morrow , then , " said the goblin . When the children came in the next morning , they placed the tin soldier in the window . Now , whether it was the goblin that did it , or ...
Common terms and phrases
Aladdin Alcinous Ali Baba Antinous asked Athene Baba beautiful began beggar bird Bob-o'-link brother Calypso Cassim cave chee Circe Cogia Hassan Colchis cried Cyclop daughter dead death delight door dreadful duckling Eumæus Eurylochus Eurymachus eyes fast father fear feast fell friends gate gave giant give gods gold guest hand head hear heard Heart of Oak heaven horse Ithaca Jason Jove king King Arthur knew lady lamp lived looked Lord Lovel magician mind Morgiana morning mother Nausicaa never night Ogygia palace Pelias Penelope Phæacian Phineus Phrixus poor princess quoth Jack replied robbers rock sail Scylla ship sight slaves soon Spink stood suitors sultan sword tears Telemachus tell thee thou thought tin soldier Tiresias told took Troy Ulysses Ulysses's wife winds wine wood words young
Popular passages
Page 47 - I wind about, and in and out, With here a blossom sailing, And here and there a lusty trout, And here and there a grayling, And here and there a foamy flake Upon me as I travel, With many a silvery waterbreak Above the golden gravel...
Page 101 - And but the booming shots replied, And fast the flames rolled on. Upon his brow he felt their breath, And in his waving hair, And looked from that lone post of death In still yet brave despair. And shouted but once more aloud, "My father! must I stay?
Page 136 - THE cock is crowing, The stream is flowing, The small birds twitter, The lake doth glitter, The green field sleeps in the sun ; The oldest and youngest Are at work with the strongest ; The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising ; There are forty feeding like one ! Like an army defeated The Snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill...
Page 100 - THE boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead.
Page 141 - Swifter than the moon's sphere ; And I serve the fairy queen, To dew her orbs upon the green : The cowslips tall her pensioners be ; In their gold coats spots you see ; Those be rubies, fairy favours, In those freckles live their savours : I must. go seek some dew-drops here, And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.
Page 142 - ... reindeer, With a little old driver, so lively and quick, I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick! More rapid than eagles his coursers they came, And he whistled and shouted and called them by name. " Now, Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Prancer and Vixen! On, Comet! on, Cupid! on, Donder and Blitzen! — To the top of the porch, to the top of the wall, Now, dash away, dash away, dash away all!
Page 142 - TwAS the night before Christmas, when all through the house, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that ST.
Page 47 - I chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles, I bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles. With many a curve my banks I fret By many a field and fallow, And many a fairy foreland set With willow-weed and mallow. I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river ; For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever.
Page 143 - As I drew in my head, and was turning around, Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound. He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot, And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot; A bundle of Toys he had flung on his back, And he looked like a pedler just opening his pack. His eyes — how they twinkled ! his dimples how merry ! His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry...
Page 137 - Where the bee sucks, there suck I ; In a cowslip's bell I lie; There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly After summer merrily. Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.