Download or read book The Elf and the Dormouse and Other Fairy Tales written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents four illustrated poems: "The Elf and the Dormouse," "The Fairies," "The Butterfly's Ball," and "The Leprahaun."
Download or read book The Elf and the Dormouse and Other Faerie Stories written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Index to Fairy Tales Myths and Legends written by Mary Huse Eastman and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Activity Curriculum for the Kindergarten and the Primary Grades written by University of California, Los Angeles and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Book Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Index to Fairy Tales Myths and Legends written by Mary Huse Eastman and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Study of Fairy Tales written by Laura Fry Kready and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Holy Cross and Other Tales written by Eugene Field and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1894-01-01 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In paying a tribute to the mingled mirth and tenderness of Eugene Field—the poet of whose going the West may say, “He took our daylight with him”—one of his fellow journalists has written that he was a jester, but not of the kind that Shakespeare drew in Yorick. He was not only,—so the writer implied,—the maker of jibes and fantastic devices, but the bard of friendship and affection, of melodious lyrical conceits; he was the laureate of children—dear for his “Wynken, Blynken and Nod” and “Little Boy Blue”; the scholarly book-lover, withal, who relished and paraphrased his Horace, who wrote with delight a quaint archaic English of his special devising; who collected rare books, and brought out his own “Little Books” of “Western Verse” and “Profitable Tales” in high-priced limited editions, with broad margins of paper that moths and rust do not corrupt, but which tempts bibliomaniacs to break through and steal. For my own part, I would select Yorick as the very forecast, in imaginative literature, of our various Eugene. Surely Shakespeare conceived the “mad rogue” of Elsinore as made up of grave and gay, of wit and gentleness, and not as a mere clown or “jig maker.” It is true that when Field put on his cap and bells, he too was “wont to set the table on a roar,” as the feasters at a hundred tables, from “Casey’s Table d’Hôte” to the banquets of the opulent East, now rise to testify. But Shakespeare plainly reveals, concerning Yorick, that mirth was not his sole attribute,—that his motley covered the sweetest nature and the tenderest heart. It could be no otherwise with one who loved and comprehended childhood and whom the children loved. And what does Hamlet say?—“He hath borne me upon his back a thousand times … Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft!” Of what is he thinking but of his boyhood, before doubts and contemplation wrapped him in the shadow, and when in his young grief or frolic the gentle Yorick, with his jest, his “excellent fancy,” and his songs and gambols, was his comrade? Of all moderns, then, here or in the old world, Eugene Field seems to be most like the survival, or revival, of the ideal jester of knightly times; as if Yorick himself were incarnated, or as if a superior bearer of the bauble at the court of Italy, or of France, or of English King Hal, had come to life again—as much out of time as Twain’s Yankee at the Court of Arthur; but not out of place,—for he fitted himself as aptly to his folk and region as Puck to the fays and mortals of a wood near Athens. In the days of divine sovereignty, the jester, we see, was by all odds the wise man of the palace; the real fools were those he made his butt—the foppish pages, the obsequious courtiers, the swaggering guardsmen, the insolent nobles, and not seldom majesty itself. And thus it is that painters and romancers have loved to draw him. Who would not rather be Yorick than Osric, or Touchstone than Le Beau, or even poor Bertuccio than one of his brutal mockers? Was not the redoubtable Chicot, with his sword and brains, the true ruler of France? To come to the jesters of history—which is so much less real than fiction—what laurels are greener than those of Triboulet, and Will Somers, and John Heywood—dramatist and master of the king’s merry Interludes? Their shafts were feathered with mirth and song, but pointed with wisdom, and well might old John Trussell say “That it often happens that wise counsel is more sweetly followed when it is tempered with folly, and earnest is the less offensive if it be delivered in jest.”
Download or read book The Fairies written by William Allingham and published by Henry Holt Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 1989 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated version of the nineteenth-century poem about the "little men" and the mischief that they do.
Download or read book The Owl and the Pussycat and Other Poems written by Tig Thomas and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of poetry’s fun is the combination of an absurd tale with a definite structure. “There Was an Old Lady” tells of a woman swallowing a great many things to rid herself of a fly with a singsong rhyme and rhythm readers of all ages can find entertaining. More than a dozen other poems offer readers a chance to absorb key parts of the language arts curriculum while reading silly poems, serious poems, and those in between! Colorful drawings engage readers as they learn to navigate the structure and imagery of each wonderful work.
Download or read book Course of Study of the Elementary Training School written by Colorado State College (Fort Collins, Colo.) and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Chambers s Journal written by William Chambers and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-11-22 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1856.
Download or read book Chambers s Edinburgh journal conducted by W Chambers Continued as Chambers s Journal of popular literature science and arts written by Chambers's journal and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bobbs Merrill Readers written by Clara Belle Baker and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only way to cultivate a taste for good reading is to read--and to enjoy while reading. It is upon this principle that the present texts are based. It provides pupils with a wide variety of literature, of many types, chosen primarily from library records, lists made by children, and teachers observations. The editors guiding question has been, "Does this passage provide a clear window through which boys and girls can look out upon an interesting phase of life?" The stories and poems in each volume are followed by a study section with exercises for vocabulary, comprehension, oral reading proficiency, or essays. These tasks increase in difficulty as the pupil ascends through the levels, and are given as the minimum essentials for pupil guidance. Teachers are free to adapt as necessary to meet the needs of their pupils.
Download or read book The Winston Readers Primer fifth Reader written by Sidney Grant Firman and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
