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 30
עמוד 98
... means , but a man who knows all about poultry , and is just as high up in the most efficient methods of raising it as the president of the institution him- self . I thank these gentlemen for the honorary membership they have conferred ...
... means , but a man who knows all about poultry , and is just as high up in the most efficient methods of raising it as the president of the institution him- self . I thank these gentlemen for the honorary membership they have conferred ...
עמוד 103
... mean to lie abed and sleep , and leave her to watch and toil over our little patient all the weary night . But she reconciled me to it . So old Maria departed and took up her ancient quarters in the nursery . Penelope coughed twice in ...
... mean to lie abed and sleep , and leave her to watch and toil over our little patient all the weary night . But she reconciled me to it . So old Maria departed and took up her ancient quarters in the nursery . Penelope coughed twice in ...
עמוד 111
... - killer . Every week he wrote lushy " poetry " for the " Journal , " about his newest conquest . His rhymes for my week were headed , " TO MARY IN H —— L , " mean- ing to Mary in Hannibal , of course . But My First Literary Venture 111.
... - killer . Every week he wrote lushy " poetry " for the " Journal , " about his newest conquest . His rhymes for my week were headed , " TO MARY IN H —— L , " mean- ing to Mary in Hannibal , of course . But My First Literary Venture 111.
עמוד 127
... mean , sir ? whom do you mean ? If you mean the Chief of the Bureau , he is out . " " Will he visit the harem to - day ? " The young man glared upon me a while , and then went on reading his paper . But I knew the ways of those clerks ...
... mean , sir ? whom do you mean ? If you mean the Chief of the Bureau , he is out . " " Will he visit the harem to - day ? " The young man glared upon me a while , and then went on reading his paper . But I knew the ways of those clerks ...
עמוד 172
... means of curious winding ways consisting of continuous regular ter- races raised one above another . There were many huge shapeless objects in each compartment which were considered to have been living creatures at one time ( 172 ) PART ...
... means of curious winding ways consisting of continuous regular ter- races raised one above another . There were many huge shapeless objects in each compartment which were considered to have been living creatures at one time ( 172 ) PART ...
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.