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Letters from the Sandwich Islands: Written for the Sacramento Union Mark Twain Vista de fragmentos - 1938 |
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Página 36 - Good fri'-iitl for lesus sake forbeare To digg the dust encloased heare: Blest be ye man yt spares thes stones And curst be he yt moves my bones.
Página 79 - While novelists and dramatists are constantly making mistakes as to the laws of marriage, of wills, and inheritance, to Shakespeare's law, lavishly as he expounds it, there can neither be demurrer, nor bill of exceptions, nor writ of error.
Página 125 - The cloud-cap'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like an insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind.
Página 123 - Every part of the book blazes with wit, but with wit which is employed only to illustrate and decorate truth. No book ever made so great a revolution in the mode of thinking, overthrew so many prejudices, introduced so many new opinions.
Página 123 - In truth, much of Bacon's life was passed in a visionary world, amidst things as strange as any that are described in the Arabian Tales...
Página 2 - Eminent Claimants, successful Claimants, defeated Claimants, royal Claimants, pleb Claimants, showy Claimants, shabby Claimants, revered Claimants, despised Claimants, twinkle star-like here and there and yonder through the mists of history and legend and tradition— and, oh, all the darling tribe are clothed in mystery and romance, and we read about them with deep interest and discuss them with loving sympathy or with rancorous resentment, according 1Here again, as in "The First Writing-Machines,"...
Página 121 - Essays' contain abundant proofs that no nice feature of character, no peculiarity in the ordering of a house, a garden, or a court-masque, could escape the notice of one whose mind was capable of taking in the whole world of knowledge. His understanding resembled the tent which the fairy Paribanou gave to Prince Ahmed. Fold it, and it seemed a toy for the hand of a lady. Spread it, and the armies of powerful Sultans might repose beneath its shade.
Página 33 - Books were much more precious than swords and silver-gilt bowls and second32 best beds in those days, and when a departing person owned one he gave it a high place in his will. The will mentioned not a play, not a poem, not an unfinished literary work, not a scrap of manuscript of any kind.
Página 75 - I know the argot of the quartz-mining and milling industry familiarly; and so whenever Bret Harte introduces that industry into a story, the first time one of his miners opens his mouth I recognize from his phrasing that Harte got the phrasing by listening — like Shakespeare — I mean the Stratford one — not by experience. No one can talk the quartz dialect correctly without learning it with pick and shovel and drill and fuse.
Página 88 - You require us to believe implicitly a fact, of which, if true, positive and irrefragable evidence in his own handwriting might have been forthcoming to establish it. Not having been actually enrolled as an attorney, neither the records of the local court at Stratford nor of the superior Courts at Westminster would present his name as being concerned in any suit as an attorney, but it might reasonably have been expected that there would be deeds or wills witnessed by him still extant, and Is Shakespeare...
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| Título | Letters from the Sandwich Islands: Written for the Sacramento Union Letters from the Sandwich Islands: Written for the Sacramento Union, George Ezra Dane |
| Autor | Mark Twain |
| Editor | George Ezra Dane |
| Ilustrado por | Dorothy Grover |
| Colaborador | George Ezra Dane |
| Editor | Stanford University Press, 1909 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Michigan |
| Digitalizado | 6 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0598928197, 9780598928191 |
| Largo | 224 páginas |
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