"Hans Christian Andersen" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Hans Christian Andersen knew this palace well, and has described it as the early home of his Improvisatore. In those days two fountains tinkled, one within, the other just outside, the dusky iron-barred basement. One fountain, however, ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. • Various
... had not made him vain. "I did my duty," he wrote to his father, a minor government official in the city of Odense where four years later Hans Christian Andersen was born on the anniversary day of the battle, "and I have whole limbs which I least expected. The Crown Prince and the Admiral have said that I behaved well." He was to have one more opportunity of fighting his country's enemy, and this time ...
— Hero Tales of the Far North • Jacob A. Riis |
