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 54
עמוד 13
... hours , it would trot up to the judges ' stand all right and just in time . It would show a fair and square average , and no man could say it had done more or less than its duty . But a correct average is only a mild virtue in a watch ...
... hours , it would trot up to the judges ' stand all right and just in time . It would show a fair and square average , and no man could say it had done more or less than its duty . But a correct average is only a mild virtue in a watch ...
עמוד 14
... hours , everything inside would let go all of a sudden and begin to buzz like a bee , and the hands would straightway begin to spin round and round so fast that their individuality was lost completely , and they simply seemed a delicate ...
... hours , everything inside would let go all of a sudden and begin to buzz like a bee , and the hands would straightway begin to spin round and round so fast that their individuality was lost completely , and they simply seemed a delicate ...
עמוד 20
... hour this time , trying to get back to where I was when my train of thought was broken up by the last interrup- tion ; but I believe I have accomplished it at last , and may venture to proceed again . ] wrestled with this great subject ...
... hour this time , trying to get back to where I was when my train of thought was broken up by the last interrup- tion ; but I believe I have accomplished it at last , and may venture to proceed again . ] wrestled with this great subject ...
עמוד 21
... hours ago . It is question- able whether I am calm enough yet to write on the noble theme of political economy , but I cannot resist the desire to try , for it is the one subject that is nearest to my heart and dearest to my brain of ...
... hours ago . It is question- able whether I am calm enough yet to write on the noble theme of political economy , but I cannot resist the desire to try , for it is the one subject that is nearest to my heart and dearest to my brain of ...
עמוד 22
... ] " THREE DAYS LATER.- We are all about worn out . For four - and - twenty hours our bristling prem- ises were the talk and wonder of the town . The theaters languished , for their happiest scenic inven- tions were 22 Political Economy.
... ] " THREE DAYS LATER.- We are all about worn out . For four - and - twenty hours our bristling prem- ises were the talk and wonder of the town . The theaters languished , for their happiest scenic inven- tions were 22 Political Economy.
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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.