Higher School

Lesson One A LIVING FLAME by Evgeny Nosov When Auntie Olga glanced into my room she found me at the desk again. "Enough writing", she said, raising her voice in a tone of command. 44A little pottering in the garden will do you good." She went to the pantry and took out a small box made of birch...

INTRODUCTORY TEXT Part IV of the book "Practical Course of English" includes six texts by American authors. Therefore we find it advisable to preface the book with an introductory text outlining somé basic differences between the British and the American variants of English. standard american...

PROLOGUE * Now luck God send us, and a little wit Will serve to make our play hit; According to the palates of the season, Here is rhyme nőt empty of reason. This we were bid to credit from our poet, Whose true scope, if you would know it, In all his poems still hath been this measure, To mix...