The Fairy Book: The Best Popular Fairy Stories Selected and Rendered Anew

Portada
Macmillan, 1868 - 368 páginas

Dentro del libro

Índice

I
II
13
III
21
IV
39
V
54
VI
62
VII
77
VIII
82
XIX
203
XX
210
XXI
213
XXII
219
XXIII
223
XXIV
234
XXV
251
XXVI
256

IX
88
X
97
XI
101
XII
107
XIII
117
XIV
124
XV
135
XVI
147
XVII
154
XVIII
182
XXVII
271
XXVIII
281
XXIX
291
XXX
308
XXXI
315
XXXII
321
XXXIII
329
XXXIV
347
XXXV
357

Otras ediciones - Ver todo

Términos y frases comunes

Pasajes populares

Página 360 - Bacon's Essays and Colours of Good and Evil. With Notes and Glossarial Index. By W. ALDIS WRIGHT, MA The Pilgrim's Progress from this "World to that which is to come.
Página 359 - THE GOLDEN TREASURY OF THE BEST SONGS AND LYRICAL POEMS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Selected and arranged, with Notes, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE.
Página 360 - THE SONG BOOK. Words and Tunes from the best Poets and Musicians. Selected and arranged by JOHN HULLAH, Professor of Vocal Music in King's College, London.
Página 66 - here is the king's son coming with two thousand men to kill you, and to destroy the castle and all that you have.
Página 130 - He arrived at the giant's mansion in the evening, and found the wife standing, as usual, at the door. Jack had disguised himself so completely, that she did not appear to have the least recollection of him ; however, when he pleaded hunger and poverty, in order to gain admittance, he found it very difficult indeed to persuade her. At last he prevailed, and was concealed in the copper. When the giant returned, he said furiously, " I smell fresh meat ! " But Jack felt quite composed, as he had said...
Página 249 - ... the ground beyond, and rolled straight into the water. The King's daughter followed it with her eyes, but it vanished, and the well was deep, so deep that the bottom could not be seen.
Página 130 - I smell fresh meat!" But Jack felt quite composed, as he had said so before, and had been soon satisfied. However, the giant started up suddenly, and, notwithstanding all his wife could say, he searched all round the room. Whilst this was going forward, Jack was exceedingly terrified, wishing himself at home a thousand times; but when the giant approached the copper, and put his hand upon the lid, Jack thought his death was certain. However, nothing happened...
Página 348 - And the more he ate the more he wanted to have, and he said, "Give me some more, you shall have none of it. It seems to me as if it were all mine." And he ate and ate and threw all the bones under the table, until he had finished the whole. But Marlinchen went away to her chest of drawers, and took her best silk handkerchief out of the...
Página 359 - THE FAIRY BOOK ; the Best Popular Fairy Stories. Selected and rendered anew by the Author of
Página 62 - Jack up in that room, while he went to fetch another giant who lived in the same wood, to enjoy a dinner off Jack's flesh with him. While he was away, Jack heard dreadful shrieks, groans, and cries, from many parts of the castle ; and soon after he heard a mournful voice repeat these lines : — " Haste, valiant stranger, haste away, Lest you become the giant's prey...

Información bibliográfica