Nursery Tales, Traditions, and Histories of the Zulus: In Their Own Words

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J.A. Blair, 1868 - 375 стор.

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Сторінка 203 - If by your art, my dearest father, you have Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them : The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch, But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek, Dashes the fire out.
Сторінка 71 - Fish that hath deserv'd the name Of Death, and like him lookes in dreadfull hew ; The griesly Wasserman, that makes his game The flying ships with...
Сторінка 70 - When it got to the place where the sun was snared, its back began to smoke and burn, with the intensity of the heat, and the top of its carcass was reduced to enormous heaps of ashes. It succeeded, however, in cutting the cord with its teeth, and freeing the sun, but it was reduced to a very small...
Сторінка 46 - So on the floor lay Balder dead ; and round Lay thickly strewn swords, axes, darts, and spears, Which all the Gods in sport had idly thrown At Balder, whom no weapon pierced or clove ; But in his breast stood fixt the fatal bough Of mistletoe, which Lok the Accuser gave To Hoder, and unwitting Hoder threw — 'Gainst that alone had Balder's life no charm.
Сторінка 11 - Egg-shells, a vick," said Mrs. Sullivan. " Oh !" shrieked the imp, starting up in the cradle, and clapping his hands together, "I'm fifteen hundred years in the world, and I never saw a brewery of egg-shells before !" The poker was by this time quite red, and Mrs. Sullivan seizing it, ran furiously towards the cradle ; but somehow or other her foot slipped, and she fell flat on the floor, and the poker flew out of her hand to the other end of the house. However, she got up, without much loss of time,...
Сторінка 11 - ... frosty night, over at the great fire, and the big pot upon it ; and he looked on with great attention at Mrs. Sullivan breaking the eggs and putting down the egg-shells to boil. At last he asked, with the voice of a very old man, "What are you doing, mammy?" Mrs. Sullivan's heart, as she said herself, was up in her mouth ready to choke her, at hearing the child speak. But she contrived to put the poker in the fire, and to answer, without making any wonder at the words, " I'm brewing, a vich "...
Сторінка 187 - first and foremost, I wish that any one whom I ask to climb up into the pear-tree that stands outside by the wall of my forge, may stay sitting there till I ask him to come down again. The second wish I wish is, that any one whom I ask to sit down in my easy chair which stands inside the workshop yonder, may stay sitting there till I ask him to get up. Last of all, I wish that any one whom I ask to creep into the steel purse which I have in my pocket, may stay in it till I give him leave to creep...
Сторінка 81 - Once he was travelling with a great number of his people and they were pursued by an enemy. On arriving at some water he said, " My grandfather's father ! open thyself that I may pass through, and close thyself afterwards.
Сторінка iii - ... from left to right. Lichtenberg maintained that they must be read in the same direction as Hebrew. Grotefend, in 1802, proved that the letters followed each other, as in Greek, from left to right. Even before Grotefend, Miinter and Tychsen had observed that there was a sign to separate the words.
Сторінка 211 - So all the birds of the air, and all the beasts of the forest, were sent out to prevent the youth from obtaining the match of the wonderful horse, Grimsbork. (Id., p. 258.) In "The Three Princesses of Whiteland," the lords of beasts, birds, and fish are old men. (Dasent. Popular Tales from the Norse, p. 212.) nmfazi wako. Kepa ikanda lake eli nga lungile.

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