Dream DaysFirst Parrish-illustrated edition, American issue, with frontispiece, illustrated title page, eight full-page photogravures, and six tailpieces by Maxfield Parrish, in publisher's pictorial cloth-gilt. |
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A. C. SWINBURNE Æsop armour-man asked aunt beast beautiful began boat brave captain's gig carronade cave Charlotte cheering chocolate circus clothes coloured Coralie corner course crew cried crowd dear delight DIES IRÆ dragon dream Edward FABLES fancy fellow felt fight fire fresh frigate gamboge garden George golden Grahame's hand happy Harold Harvard College head heard hero illustrations by PERCY Irish terrier jaded heart KENNETH GRAHAME knew legs Leotard looked MAXFIELD PARRISH ment mind morning never nice night once OVERDUE FEE PERCY DEARMER perhaps pink ship pirate chief play Potiphar Princess quarter-deck quietly RELUCTANT DRAGON replied road round Saint seemed Selina ship shout side sort of thing spear steps stood story strange strolled sure swung tell there's thought told took village walk Widener Library
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Page 164 - You surprise me," said the Boy, civilly. " It's the sad truth," the dragon went on, settling down between his paws and evidently delighted to have found a listener at last: " and I fancy that's really how I came to be here. You see all the other fellows were so active and earnest and all that sort of thing
Page 6 - both gained by painful study and extensive travel in those "realms of gold," the Army List and Ballantyne. Selina's subject, quite unaccountably, happened to be naval history. There is no laying down rules as to subjects; you just possess them — or rather, they possess you — and their genesis
Page 184 - such a lot of you that there must be a few spare places somewhere. Here, for instance, just behind your foreleg. It could n't hurt you much, just here! " "Now you're tickling, George," said the dragon, coyly. " No, that place won't do at all. Even if it
Page 174 - all the fighting, and no doubt that's why I have the pleasure of being here now." "But if you don't fight he'll cut your head off! " gasped the Boy, miserable at the prospect of losing both his fight and his friend. " Oh, I think not," said the dragon in his lazy way.
Page 166 - introduce you some day if you like." " Can't you two come up here and dine or something to-morrow?" asked the dragon, eagerly. " Only, of course, if you 've got nothing better to do," he added politely. "Thanks awfully," said the Boy, "but we don't go out anywhere without my mother, and, to tell you the truth,
Page 167 - a dragon, is there? And when you talk of settling down, and the neighbours, and so on, I can't help feeling that you don't quite realise your position. You 're an enemy of the human race, you see!
Page 168 - bear the strictest investigation. And now, there's a little sonnet-thing I was working on when you appeared on the scene — " " Oh, if you wont be sensible," cried the Boy, getting up, " I 'm going off home. No, I can't stop for sonnets; my mother's sitting up. I