A Wonder-book: Tanglewood Tales, and Grandfather's ChairHoughton, Mifflin Company, 1883 - 637 sider Tales told at the fireside and in the woods, adapting such classical myths as Pandora's Box, Baucis and Philemon, and Perseus and Medusa to the storyteller's gothic or romantic environment. |
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Acadia Antæus arms asked Baucis beautiful began behold Bellerophon Boston bull Cadmus Ceres Charley child Chimæra Cilix Clara Cotton Mather creature cried dear dragon earth England Epimetheus Europa Eurylochus Eustace Bright eyes face father flowers gazing giant gold Golden Fleece governor Grandfather's chair grew hand happened head hear heard heart Hercules Hutchinson Indians Jason King Pluto king's knew Laurence likewise little Alice looked maidens Massachusetts Medea Minotaur mischief monster Mother Ceres mountain never old chair palace Pandora peep Pegasus Pelias Perseus Philemon Pirene Pluto Polydectes poor pretty Primrose Proserpina Province House Pygmies Quicksilver replied Grandfather seemed seen shouted Sir William Phipps smile soldiers stood story stranger sweet Sweet Fern sword talk Tanglewood Telephassa tell terrible Thasus Theseus thing thought throne told took tree Ulysses vessel voice whole winged horse wonderful young
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Side 461 - The magistrates soon began to suspect that the mintmaster would have the best of the bargain. They offered him a large sum of money if he would but give up that twentieth shilling which he was continually dropping into his own pocket. But Captain Hull declared himself perfectly satisfied with the shilling.
Side 68 - Ah, dear child," groaned Midas, dolefully, " I don't know what is to become of your poor father ! " And, truly, my dear little folks, did you ever hear of such a pitiable case in all your lives ? Here was literally the richest breakfast that could be set before a king, and its very richness made it absolutely good for nothing. The poorest...
Side 462 - There, too, was the bridegroom, dressed in a fine purple coat and gold-lace waistcoat, with as much other finery as the Puritan laws and customs would allow him to put on. His hair was cropped close to his head, because Governor Endicott had forbidden any man to wear it below the ears. But he was a very personable young man; and so thought the bridemaids and Miss Betsey herself.
Side 69 - It was the prettiest and most woful sight that ever mortal saw. All the features and tokens of Marygold were there ,• even the beloved little dimple remained in her golden chin. But, the more perfect was the resemblance, the greater was the father's agony at beholding this golden image, which was all that was left him of a daughter.
Side 120 - ... twined about the hero's neck and body, and threw its tail high into the air, and opened its deadly jaws as if to devour him outright ; so that it was really a very terrible spectacle ! But Hercules was no whit disheartened, and squeezed the great snake so tightly that he soon began to hiss with pain. You must understand that the Old Man of the Sea, though he generally looked so much like the wave-beaten figure-head of a vessel, had the power of assuming any shape he pleased.
Side 112 - The young women looked at his massive club, and at the shaggy lion's skin which he wore, and likewise at his heroic limbs and figure ; and they whispered to each other that the stranger appeared to be one who might reasonably expect to perform deeds far beyond the might of other men. But then, the dragon with a hundred heads ! What mortal, even if he possessed a hundred lives, could hope to escape the fangs of such a monster...
Side 487 - We won't go back empty-handed," cried an English sailor ; and then he spoke to one of the Indian divers. " Dive down and bring me that pretty sea shrub there. That's the only treasure we shall find ! " Down plunged the diver, and soon rose dripping from the water, holding the sea shrub in his hand. But he had learned some news at the bottom of the sea. " There are some ship's guns," said he, the moment he had drawn breath, " some great cannon, among the...
Side 129 - Accordingly, without more words, the sky was shifted from the shoulders of Atlas, and placed upon those of Hercules. When this was safely accomplished, the first thing that the giant did was to stretch himself; and you may imagine what a prodigious spectacle he was then.
Side 128 - ... a remarkably strong man; and though it certainly requires a great deal of muscular power to uphold the sky, yet, if any mortal could be supposed capable of such an exploit, he was the one. Nevertheless, it seemed so difficult an undertaking, that, for the first time in his life, he hesitated. "Is the sky very heavy?" he inquired. "Why, not particularly so, at first," answered the giant, shrugging his shoulders. "But it gets to be a little burdensome, after a thousand years!" "And how long a time,"...
Side 112 - A certain king, who is my cousin," replied he, " has ordered me to get him three of the golden apples." " Most of the young men who go in quest of these apples," observed another of the damsels, " desire to obtain them for themselves, or to present them to some fair maiden whom they love. Do you, then, love this king, your cousin, so very much...