Lecturas inglesas escogidas o sea trozos de los mejores escritores ingleses y americanos en prosa y verso arreglados en lecciones con notas gramaticales y fraseológicas / por Francesco M. Blanco

Nueva York: G. R. Lockwood, 1871



Tabla de Contenido


Preliminares.

I. - X.
I. Traducción interlinear, con la pronunciación figurada de cada palabra inglesa.

II. Dchil blas and di parasait.
III. Gil blas and the parasite.
IV. Gil blas y el parasite.
V. Plants, fishes, birds, brasts, and men.
VI. Houses, Hamlets, villages, and cities.
VII. The stars.
VIII. Spring.
IX. Summer.
X. Autumn.

XI. - XVI.
XI. Winter.

XII. Use plain language.
XIII. Effects of rashness.
XIV. The consequences of idleness.
XV. Advantages of industry.
XVI. Alexander the great.

XVII. - XXII.
XVII. A contest with tigers.

XVIII. The rainbow.
XIX. Difference between. Man and the inferior animals.
XX. The generous Russian peasant.
XXI. A ship in a storm.
XXII. The just judge.

XXIII. - XXVII.
XXIII. The maniac.

XXIV. True and false philosophy.
XXV. Control your Temper.
XXVI. The whale-ship.
XXVII. No excellence without labor.

XXVIII. - XXXIII.
XXVIII. On elocution and reading.

XXIX. Necessity of education.
XXX. The wife.
XXXI. Charles .
XXXII. Horrors of war.
XXXIII. Character of Napoleon Bonaparte.

XXXIV. - XXXVII.
XXXIV. Capturing the wild horse.

XXXV. Niagara fails.
XXXVI. The Alhambra by moonlight.
XXXVII. The steamboat trial.

XXXVIII. - XLI.
XXXVIII. Love of applause.

XXXIX. Tit for tat.
XL. Effects of gambling.
XLI. Benefits of literature.

XLII. - XLVIL.
XLII. Value of mathematics.

XLIII. On letter - writing.
XLIV. Europe and America - Washington.
XLV. Injudicious haste in study.
XLVI. The true test of a book.
XLVII. The true test of integrity.

XLVIII. - LIX.
XLVIII. The three heavy stones.

XLIX. Enemies of the whale.
L. How to meet adversity.
LI. Rivers.
LII. How to make a scholar.
LIII. The best kind of revenge.
LXXIV. What is a gentleman.
LV. Early Grecian history.
LVI. The Persian wars.
LVII. The era of Grecian eloquence and literature.
LVIII. The later days of Grecian history.
LIX. Early roman history.

LX. - LXVII.
LX. Patrician and plebeian contests.

LXI. The Carthaginian wars.
LXII. The newspaper.
LXIIL. Superiority of wisdom.
LXIV. Romantic story.
LXV. The Chinese prisoner.
LXVI. Reply to sir Robert Walpole.
LXVII. The fortune - telier.

LXVIII. - LXXI.
LXVIII. The tournament.

LXIX. Homer and virgil.
LXX. Discontent. - An allegory.
LXXI. Colloquial powers of Dr. franklin.

LXXII. - LXXVII.
LXXII. The moon and stars. - A fable.

LXXIII. Mechanical wonders of a feather.
LXXIV. Character of louis fourteenth.
LXXV. Anecdote of the duke of Newcastle.
LXXVI. Reception of Columbus in spain.
LXXVII. Eulogy on candle - light.

LXXVIII. - LXXXI.
LXXVIII. Advantages of a well - cultivated mind.

LXXIX. The will.
LXXX. The hill of science.
LXXXI. Scene from the poor gentleman.

LXXXII. - LXXXVI.
LXXXII. The silent academy.

LXXXIII. The prisoner and the rats.
LXXXIV. Proverbs of all nations.
LXXXV. The folly of castle - building.
LXXXVI. Gladiatorial combat with a tiger.

LXXXVII. - XCII.
LXXXVII. On compression in speech and writing.

LXXXVIII. Climate of the cat skill mountains.
LXXXIX. On the study of words. (part first)
XC. On the study of words. (part second)
XCI. On the study of words. (part third)
XCII. The lion and the spaniel.

XCIII. - XCVII.
XCIII. Historical charaters.

XCIV. The complaint of a stomach.
XCV. Inconvenient Ignorance.
XCVI. The discontented miller.
XCVII. The sword and the press.

XCVIII. - XCIX.
XCVIII. Anecdotes and incidents.

XCIX. Gil blas and the archbishop.

Selections in verse.
Parte 1.

Parte 2.

Vocabulario.
Parte 1.

Parte 2.
Parte 3.
Parte 4.
Parte 5.