Sketches, New and OldAmerican Publishing Company, 1899 - 414 עמודים This collection of 63 writings by Mark Twain was published in 1875. Among other sketches, it contains "The Jumping Frog" in the original English, followed by a French translation which Twain re-translated into English, showing how the French translation of his work was "badly flawed." In many of these sketches, Twain shows his talent for outrageous and hilarious inventiveness, often in reaction to current events |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 40
עמוד 61
... children standing around the grave in pantaloons that were too short , and bonnets that were too large , and everybody crying into handker- chiefs that had as much as a yard and a half of stuff in them . He was always headed off in this ...
... children standing around the grave in pantaloons that were too short , and bonnets that were too large , and everybody crying into handker- chiefs that had as much as a yard and a half of stuff in them . He was always headed off in this ...
עמוד 62
Mark Twain. giving a penny to a poor beggar - woman with six . children , and telling her to spend it freely , but not to be extravagant , because extravagance is a sin ; and pictures of him magnanimously refusing to tell on the bad boy ...
Mark Twain. giving a penny to a poor beggar - woman with six . children , and telling her to spend it freely , but not to be extravagant , because extravagance is a sin ; and pictures of him magnanimously refusing to tell on the bad boy ...
עמוד 91
... child with it . Then , being hungry for glass again , it broke up several wine- glasses , and fell to eating and swallowing the frag- ments , not minding a cut or two . Then it ate a quantity of butter , pepper , salt , and California ...
... child with it . Then , being hungry for glass again , it broke up several wine- glasses , and fell to eating and swallowing the frag- ments , not minding a cut or two . Then it ate a quantity of butter , pepper , salt , and California ...
עמוד 92
... is strictly true ; and if any one doubts it , I can produce the child . I will further engage that she will devour anything that is given her ( reserving to myself only the right to exclude 92 Answers to Correspondents.
... is strictly true ; and if any one doubts it , I can produce the child . I will further engage that she will devour anything that is given her ( reserving to myself only the right to exclude 92 Answers to Correspondents.
עמוד 99
... child be chewing that pine stick if I were you . ' ་ ་ " " Precious , where is the harm in it ? " said she , but at the same time preparing to take away the stick for women cannot receive even the most palpably judicious suggestion ...
... child be chewing that pine stick if I were you . ' ་ ་ " " Precious , where is the harm in it ? " said she , but at the same time preparing to take away the stick for women cannot receive even the most palpably judicious suggestion ...
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
asked avait beef contract began bien bless Cæsar Capitoline Venus Cardiff Giant chance Chemung county clerk Conchology Conrad creature dead distress dollars door editor face feel fell Fisher frog gentlemen George Fisher give gone Government grenouille hand hanged happy head heard heart honor hour hundred Indians insane insanity plea jist JULIUS CÆSAR kill knew lady legs little boy live look MARK TWAIN married matter ment mind Mormon trail morning Mound Builder never niggers night noble Old Red Sandstone once paper petrifaction Petrified poor Professor Woodlouse qu'il remark seemed seven-up Simon Wheeler Smiley sort stranger Sunday-school talk tell thing thought thousand tion told took Tumble-Bug turned Virginia City wait woman word Written about 1870 young
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 86 - THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
עמוד 194 - JACK and Jill went up the hill, To fetch a pail of water; Jack fell down and broke his crown And Jill came tumbling after.
עמוד 27 - Rev. Leonidas W. Smiley, a young minister of the Gospel, who he had heard was at one time a resident of Angel's Camp. I added that if Mr. Wheeler could tell me anything about this Rev.
עמוד 68 - THOSE evening bells ! those evening bells ! How many a tale their music tells, Of youth, and home, and that sweet time, When last I heard their soothing chime.
עמוד 28 - 49, or maybe it was the spring of '50 — I don't recollect exactly, somehow, though what makes me think it was one or the other, is because I remember the big flume...
עמוד 31 - ... filled him pretty near up to his chin — and set him on the floor. Smiley he went to the swamp and slopped around in the mud for a long time, and finally he ketched a frog and fetched him in and give him to this feller, and says: "Now, if you're ready, set him alongside of Dan'l, with his fore-paws just even with Dan'l's, and I'll give the word.
עמוד 282 - LET dogs delight to bark and bite, For God hath made them so; Let bears and lions growl and fight, For 'tis their nature too.
עמוד 31 - And the feller took it, and looked at it careful, and turned it round this way and that, and says, "H'm — so 'tis. Well, what's he good for?" "Well," Smiley says, easy and careless, "he's good enough for one thing, I should judge — he can outjump any frog in Calaveras county.
עמוד 31 - And so the feller took the box, and put up his forty dollars along with Smiley's, and set down to wait. So he set there a good while thinking and thinking to...
עמוד 28 - ... initial sentence, he never betrayed the slightest suspicion of enthusiasm; but all through the interminable narrative there ran a vein of impressive earnestness and sincerity which showed me plainly that, so far from his imagining that there was anything ridiculous or funny about his story, he regarded it as a really important matter, and admired its two heroes as men of transcendent genius in finesse.