The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony, in Eight FitsMacmillan and Company, 1906 - 83 Seiten |
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appeared awkward to mention Baker BAKER'S TALE Bandersnatch BANKER'S FATE Barrister BARRISTER'S DREAM Beaver Bellman cried Bellman declared Bellman looked Bellman remarked BELLMAN'S SPEECH Billiard-marker Boojum Boots bowsprit got mixed boyish BREAD STREET HILL BUNGAY Butcher Captain charmed cheers cheque CLAY AND SONS coat copy lost crag crew dear uncle desperate bird Dunce exactly excessively awkward explained eyes fainted felt fond forks and hope friends frumious furious gaze groan happened HARVARD COLLEGE helmsman hunting the Snark indignantly Jubjub Judge Jury knew lace LESSON maker of Bonnets never NORTH POLE once poem pronounced pursued railway-share RICHARD CLAY roused rudder sometimes sailed many weeks seek ship shriek sigh silence skip slightest slithy smiles and soap softly and suddenly sought sound speak striking a light suddenly vanish SUFFOLK SWAIN tears thimbles thing threatened three pair tingled his bell tone toves utter whiskers word
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Seite 79 - They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; They threatened its life with a railway-share; They charmed it with smiles and soap.
Seite 57 - You condense it with locusts and tape: Still keeping one principal object in view — To preserve its symmetrical shape." The Butcher would gladly have talked till next day, But he felt that the Lesson must end, And he wept with delight in attempting to say He considered the Beaver his friend.
Seite 23 - The third is its slowness in taking a jest. Should you happen to venture on one, It will sigh like a thing that is deeply distressed : And it always looks grave at a pun.
Seite 51 - It felt that, in spite of all possible pains, It had somehow contrived to lose count, And the only thing now was to rack its poor brains By reckoning up the amount. 'Two added to one — if that could but be done,' It said, 'with one's fingers and thumbs!' Recollecting with tears how, in earlier years, It had taken no pains with its sums. 'The thing can be done,
Seite 19 - But the principal failing occurred in the sailing, And the Bellman, perplexed and distressed, Said he had hoped, at least, when the wind blew due East That the ship would not travel due West ! But the danger was past — they had landed at last.
Seite 18 - And that was to tingle his bell. He was thoughtful and grave — but the orders he gave Were enough to bewilder a crew. When he cried "Steer to starboard, but keep her head larboard!
Seite 33 - "We have had that before!" The Bellman indignantly said. And the Baker replied "Let me say it once more. It is this, it is this that I dread! "I engage with the Snark every night after dark In a dreamy delirious fight: I serve it with greens in those shadowy scenes, And I use it for striking a light: "But if ever I meet with a Boojum, that day, In a moment (of this I am sure), I shall softly and suddenly vanish away — And the notion I cannot endure!
Seite 7 - While, for those who preferred a more forcible word, He had different names from these: His intimate friends called him 'Candle-ends', And his enemies 'Toasted-cheese*. 'His form is ungainly his intellect small ' (So the Bellman would often remark) 'But his courage is perfect! And that, after all, Is the thing that one needs with a Snark.
Seite 22 - Let us take them in order. The first is the taste, Which is meagre and hollow, but crisp: Like a coat that is rather too tight in the waist, With a flavour of Will-o '-the-Wisp.