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Page 130 - I WILL arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made: Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honey bee, And live alone in the bee-loud glade. And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings; There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings.
Page 116 - When you are writing for children, do not assume a style for the occasion. Think your best and write your best. Let the whole thing live ; let everything in your narrative be on a generous scale ; let there be plenty of breadth and power.
Page 199 - I am, I own, no great believer in the moral utility to be derived from fictitious compositions ; yet if, in any case, a word spoken in season may be of advantage to a young person, it must surely be when it calls upon him to attend to the voice of principle and self-denial, instead of that of precipitate passion...
Page 160 - A very pretty story, with much of the freshness and vigor of Mr. Macdonald's earlier work. . . . It is a sweet, earnest, and wholesome fairy story, and the quaint native humor is delightful. A most delightful volume for young readers."— Philadelphia Times.
Page 104 - You will have the dream next time you sleep,' said he, and trudged on. . . . He was a very old man; his face was puckered up into a thousand wrinkles, like the skin of a shrunken apple, and he had long, snow-white hair and a white beard which reached almost to his waist. Moreover, he was strangely dressed in a robe of cherry scarlet and wore golden shoes. From a kind of belt hung two horns on silver chains, one an ordinary cow's horn, the other a beautiful horn carved of the whitest ivory and decorated...
Page 21 - Sometimes he shared with me the pictures memory gave back from the road, more often we drove for miles in "social silence." Out of these moving silences it was to come to me quite clearly in later years that civilization has always rested and will continue to rest on the dreams and fancies of a few men and women and their power to persuade others of the truth of what they see and feel.
Page 222 - The Bookshop for Boys and Girls of the Women's Educational and Industrial Union...
Page 49 - I do not much believe that it is worth while to say anything, but keep at work! If something comes into a writer's or a painter's mind the only thing is to try it, to see what one can do with it, and give it a chance to show if it has real value. Story-writing is always experimental, just as a water-color sketch is, and that something which does itself is the vitality of it. I think we must know what good work is before we can do good work of our own, and so I say, study work that the best judges...
Page 108 - ... fairy-tale. It is Andersen himself who has made the most unique contribution not only to the literature which children read, but to that which is illustrative of childhood. He attained his eminence sheerly by the exhibition of a power which resulted from his information by the spirit of childhood. He was not only an interpreter of childhood ; he was the first child who made a real contribution to literature.
Page 180 - Time, you old gipsy man, Will you not stay, Put up your caravan Just for one day? All things I'll give you Will you be my guest, Bells for your jennet Of silver the best, Goldsmiths shall beat you A great golden ring, Peacocks shall bow to you, Little boys sing, Oh, and sweet girls will Festoon you with may, Time, you old gipsy, Why hasten away? Last week in Babylon, Last night...