Harry Winter the Shipwrecked Sailor Boy to Which is Added the Oak At Home
Harry Winter the Shipwrecked Sailor Boy to Which is Added the Oak At Home
Thomas Forster
The book Harry Winter the Shipwrecked Sailor Boy to Which is Added the Oak At Home was written by author Thomas Forster Here you can read free online of Harry Winter the Shipwrecked Sailor Boy to Which is Added the Oak At Home book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Harry Winter the Shipwrecked Sailor Boy to Which is Added the Oak At Home a good or bad book?
What reading level is Harry Winter the Shipwrecked Sailor Boy to Which is Added the Oak At Home book?
To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Each forgot her disappointments and vexations, or prudently, concealed them ; while so glow- ing were their descriptions of the apartments, guests, and the whole enchantments of the scene, that even the Oak, beneath which they were reposing, became less sturdy, and bowed to listen ; while a neighboring sapling was so enamoured of the scene described, that she se- cretly resolved to solicit the parent Oak y to give a similar fete to the forest trees. Know- ing her mother to be unyielding in her ...old- fashioned notions, she prepared herself with arguments addressed to her pride, and after the young people had dispersed, spoke to her as follows : " Well, mother, I think these lves, the highest of whom, could not reach your lowest branches, have given a famous ac- 17 count of their festivities, enough to excite the envy of all our race, and to think that we, the nobility of the forest, have only the privi- lege of showing our leaves at their entertain- ments, placed against the wall to form the dra- pery to some ijaudy bunch of flowers I de- clare it is too deizradinof ; and do, mother, think of the advantages of showing off our extensive and royal family, at a feie of this kind, and how it would brinsr me into notice, polish rne, and fit me tor better society than these tire- some old-fashioned people about me, some of whom, do not change their dress the year round.
User Reviews: