FAIRY REALM
A Collection Of The Favourite Old Tales.
By Tom Hood
Illustrated by the Pencil of GUSTAVE DORE
Told In Verse
London:
Ward, Lock, And Tyler, 158 Fleet Street,
1865
Original Size -- Medium-Size
Original Size -- Medium-Size
PREFACE.
THE five favourite fairy legends which M. Gustave Doré has illustrated are so well known, have been so often told, and in so many different ways, that it was a matter of no small difficulty to determine the best mode of treating them. The plan I have adopted is to give the tales in a simple metre and in the most unpretending manner, going, in short, little if anything beyond mere recital in easy verse. From performing even this plain task as I could have wished I have been prevented by ill health, and I fear that what I have written little deserves the honour of association with works of genius like M. Gustave Dore's pictures. But I have the single satisfaction of knowing that I have done the best I could.
TOM HOOD.
November, 1865.
CONTENTS
THE SLEEPING BEAUTY.
IN that strange region, dim and grey, Which lies so very far away, Whose chronicles in prose or rhyme Are dated "Once upon a time," There was a land where silence reigned So deep,—the ear it almost pained To hear the gnat's shrill clarion blow,— Though he Sleep's herald is we know. Scarce would you deem that calm p...BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!
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