Stories about Number Nip: The Spirit of the Giant MountainsChatto & Windus, 1881 - 270 páginas Retelling of stories about Number Nip, the legendary spirit of the Giant Mountains in Silesia. First collected by Musaeus in the late 18th century. |
No interior do livro
Resultados 1-5 de 28
Página 10
... Mother Earth gives them all those kindly crops of corn and fruits that grow for them . But I will see more of them yet ; I will go down into the valleys again . ” So Number Nip went down into the valleys again , and watched the people ...
... Mother Earth gives them all those kindly crops of corn and fruits that grow for them . But I will see more of them yet ; I will go down into the valleys again . ” So Number Nip went down into the valleys again , and watched the people ...
Página 28
... mother , and my brothers and sisters , and after mocking me for a time with companions in this prison , you have taken them all from me and left me alone . You are an unkind and wicked spirit . " As nothing that Number Nip could say to ...
... mother , and my brothers and sisters , and after mocking me for a time with companions in this prison , you have taken them all from me and left me alone . You are an unkind and wicked spirit . " As nothing that Number Nip could say to ...
Página 56
... mother . When I was a child , there was a little boy named Benedick , who lived with his mother , a poor but honest widow , in the same village . He was my playmate , and he and I were con- stantly together at our happy little sports ...
... mother . When I was a child , there was a little boy named Benedick , who lived with his mother , a poor but honest widow , in the same village . He was my playmate , and he and I were con- stantly together at our happy little sports ...
Página 57
... mother taught him , and I have made him a thief and a robber , and he is con- demned to die for stealing . " " You make him a thief ! " answered Number Nip . " How ? " " Yes , sir , " she said ; " I have made him a thief and a robber ...
... mother taught him , and I have made him a thief and a robber , and he is con- demned to die for stealing . " " You make him a thief ! " answered Number Nip . " How ? " " Yes , sir , " she said ; " I have made him a thief and a robber ...
Página 58
... . For three years I have worked hard for you , counting every hour till the time was out , and I have got enough money to furnish a tidy little cottage like my mother's , and now you say , " Get more 58 BENEDICK AND CATRINE .
... . For three years I have worked hard for you , counting every hour till the time was out , and I have got enough money to furnish a tidy little cottage like my mother's , and now you say , " Get more 58 BENEDICK AND CATRINE .
Palavras e frases frequentes
amusing answered appeared arms asked Author basket beautiful believe Benedick brothers butler called carriage carrying castle cloth extra Coloured Countess course Crown 8vo dark daughters door Edition face father fear felt Frau Fritz Giant Mountains gilt give goats gold golden hand happened head hear heard Hirschberg History horses Illustrations interest JAMES kind Klaus knew ladies landlord leaves letter lived looked maidens marry Meta morning mother never night Notes Number Nip once opened palace passed poor postilion priest Prince Princess prison Professor punish ready rich rock Rolf rose salmon seen seized showed soon spirits Stephen story talk tell things thought told took trees turnips voice walked wife window wished woman wood young
Passagens conhecidas
Página 4 - ... of the West of England ; or, The Drolls, Traditions, and Superstitions of Old Cornwall. Collected and Edited by ROBERT HUNT, FRS New and Revised Edition, with Additions, and Two Steel-plate Illustrations by GEORGE CRUIKSHANK.
Página 6 - Emanuel On Diamonds and Precious Stones ; their History, Value, and Properties ; with Simple Tests for ascertaining their Reality. By HARRY EMANUEL, FRGS With numerous Illustrations, Tinted and Plain. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, with Illustrations, js.
Página 11 - Hood's (Thomas) Choice Works, In Prose and Verse. Including the CREAM OF THE COMIC ANNUALS.
Página 12 - Lamb's Complete Works, in Prose and Verse, reprinted from the Original Editions, with many Pieces hitherto unpublished. Edited, with Notes and Introduction, by RH SHEPHERD. With Two Portraits and Facsimile of a Page of the
Página 8 - German Popular Stories. Collected by the Brothers GRIMM, and Translated by EDGAR TAYLOR. Edited with an Introduction by JOHN RUSKIN. With 22 Illustrations after the inimitable designs of GEORGE CRUIKSHANK. Both Series Complete. " The illustrations of this volume . . . are of quite sterling and admirable art, of a class precisely parallel in elevation to the character of the tales which they illustrate; and the original etchings, as I have before said in the Appendix to my * Elements of Drawing...
Página 13 - Crown 8vo, cloth extra, with Illustrations, js. 6d, Life in London; or, The History of Jerry Hawthorn and Corinthian Tom. With the whole of CRUIKSHANK'S Illustrations, in Colours, after the Originals. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 6s. Lights on the Way : Some Tales within a Tale. By the latej. H. ALEXANDER, BA Edited, with an Explanatory Note, by HA PAGE, Author of " Thoreau : A Study." Crown 8vo, cloth extra, with Illustrations, js. 6d. Longfellow's Complete Prose Works. Including "Outre Mer," "Hyperion,"...
Página 8 - Drawing' were unrivalled^ in masterfulness of touch since Rembrandt (in some qualities of delineation, unrivalled even by him). . . . To make somewhat enlarged copies of them, looking at them through a magnifying glass, and never putting two lines where Cruikshank has put only one, would be an exercise in decision and severe drawing which would leave afterwards little to be learnt in schools.
Página 7 - Noble Numbers, and Complete Collected Poems. With Memorial-Introduction and Notes, Steel Portrait, Index of First Lines, and Glossarial Index, &c. Three Vols. 4. Sidney's (Sir Philip) Complete Poetical Works, including all those in "Arcadia.
Página 4 - Chaucer: Chaucer for Children: A Golden Key. By Mrs. HR HAWEIS. With Eight Coloured Pictures and numerous Woodcuts by the Author. New Ed., small 410, cloth extra, 6s.
Página 23 - Works. Faithfully Translated from the French, with variorum Notes, and numerous characteristic Illustrations by GUSTAVE DORE.