"Storyteller" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the candles were lighted, storyteller, statesman, explorer, poet and preacher came from the far ends of the earth and poured their souls into ours. It was a dim light—that of the candles—but even to-day it shines through the long alley of these many years upon my pathway. ...
— The Light in the Clearing • Irving Bacheller
... quite a new and valuable light after he went to reside in the beacon—namely, as a storyteller. During the long periods of inaction that ensued, when the men were imprisoned there by storms, he lightened many an hour that would have otherwise hung heavily on their hands, and he cheered the more timid ...
— The Lighthouse • R.M. Ballantyne
... was a great storyteller. One day, as he was going by the school, the children gathered ...
— McGuffey's Second Eclectic Reader • William Holmes McGuffey
... be beautiful is a charming instance of something which a storyteller can otherwise only dream of. For such a garden is itself a story, one which actually and naturally occurs, yet occurs under its master's guidance and control and with ...
— The Amateur Garden • George W. Cable
... represents a conspiracy, and extends the action to fourteen days, he must account to me for all that takes place in these fourteen days." Yes, for all that belongs to the matter in hand; all the rest, being extraneous to it, he passes over in silence, as every good storyteller would, and no person ever thinks of the omission. "If, therefore, he places before me the events of fourteen days, this gives at least fourteen different actions, however small they may be." No doubt, if the poet were so unskilful as to wind off the fourteen days one after ...
— Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature • August Wilhelm Schlegel |
