Edited by Olive Beauprй Miller; published in 1920 by The Bookhouse for Children. A collection of well-known and not so well-known rhymes, poems, stories and tales from Mother Goose, William Shakespeare and more! In the Nursery is a beautiful collection of nursery rhymes with nice illustrations Part 2 added by decabristka
Updated to meet the needs of students preparing for the latest versions of the SAT and ACT college entrance tests, the new edition of this helpful, longtime best-selling book features word lists with definitions, analogy exercises, word games, and words-in-context exercises. A special feature is the authors’ Panorama of Words, in which each of the book’s 1110 words is presented in a sentence from a well-known novel, play, poem, or other literary source. A new “Bonus Materials” section commemorates this book’s 40th Anniversary as a leader in vocabulary building and test preparation.
This volume of new work explores the forms and functions of serial verbs. The introduction sets out the cross-linguistic parameters of variation, and the final chapter draws out a set of conclusions. These frame fourteen explorations of serial verb constructions and similar structures in languages from Asia, Africa, North, Central and South America, and the Pacific. Chapters on well-known languages such as Cantonese and Thai are set alongside the languages of small hunter-gatherer and slash-and-burn agriculturalist groups.
1912. Nobel laureate Gerhart Hauptmann's
first play, Before Sunrise was produced in 1889 at the German Free
Theater, and was acknowledged as the beginning of an important new
literary movement for Germany. Some critics regard drama as Hauptmann's
least happy choice in the form of literary expression. Many consider
him as one of the finest poets of modern times. He has also written
many well-known novels of which Atlantis is probably the most famous.
Atlantis is a social novel with a supernatural subplot involving
after-death experiences and dream visions.
Brush Up Your Poetry! by Michael Macrone Brush Up Your Poetry! is both a lively primer and a fascinating
look at how our language evolved, by focusing on well-known words and
phrases coined in a rich selection of all poems great and small (as
Coleridge would have put it). Readers will savor the familiar and
classically poetic--like Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "How do I love
thee? Let me count the ways" and John Donne's "Do not ask for whom the
bell tolls"--but they will also discover the myriad well-known phrases
that you would never expect to come from poems, such as Chaucer's "In
one ear and out the other" and Longfellow's "Into each life some rain
must fall." This is one of the most wonderful books I've ever read and it was of a great value while I was studying at the University.