The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. [pseud.] ...A. and W. Galignani, 1824 |
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Σελίδα 20
... bosom , when he first comes in sight of Europe . There is a volume of associations with the very name . It is the land of pro- mise , teeming with every thing of which his childhood has heard , or on which his stu- dious 20 THE VOYAGE .
... bosom , when he first comes in sight of Europe . There is a volume of associations with the very name . It is the land of pro- mise , teeming with every thing of which his childhood has heard , or on which his stu- dious 20 THE VOYAGE .
Σελίδα 48
... bosom , will be weighed down like mine , by the cares and miseries of the world . At length he came to me one day , and re- lated his whole situation in a tone of the deepest despair . When I had heard him through , I inquired , « Does ...
... bosom , will be weighed down like mine , by the cares and miseries of the world . At length he came to me one day , and re- lated his whole situation in a tone of the deepest despair . When I had heard him through , I inquired , « Does ...
Σελίδα 51
... bosom is - no man knows what a ministering angel she is — until he has gone with her through the fiery trials of this world . " There was something in the earnestness of my manner , and the figurative style of my lan- guage , that ...
... bosom is - no man knows what a ministering angel she is — until he has gone with her through the fiery trials of this world . " There was something in the earnestness of my manner , and the figurative style of my lan- guage , that ...
Σελίδα 57
... bosom - he folded his arms round her- he kissed her again and again — he could not speak , but the tears gushed into his eyes ; and he has often assured me that though the world has since gone prosperously with him , and his life has ...
... bosom - he folded his arms round her- he kissed her again and again — he could not speak , but the tears gushed into his eyes ; and he has often assured me that though the world has since gone prosperously with him , and his life has ...
Σελίδα 74
... bosom , and at last losing itself in the blue highlands . On the other side he looked down into a deep mountain glen , wild , lonely , and shag- ged , the bottom filled with fragments from the impending cliffs , and scarcely lighted by ...
... bosom , and at last losing itself in the blue highlands . On the other side he looked down into a deep mountain glen , wild , lonely , and shag- ged , the bottom filled with fragments from the impending cliffs , and scarcely lighted by ...
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The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon Gent. [i.e. Washington Irving] Washington Irving Πλήρης προβολή - 1864 |
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ancient antiquity Baron beautiful Boar's Head bosom Bracebridge Canonchet castle charm Christmas church churchyard cottage countenance custom Dame dance dark delight distant door earth Eastcheap England English Falstaff fancy favourite feelings fire flowers friends gathered ghost goblin grave green hall hand haunted heard heart horse hung Ichabod Ichabod Crane Indian John Bull kind knight-errant lady land Little Britain living look Master Simon melancholy merry mind mingled monuments nature neighbourhood neighbouring never night noble old English old gentleman once passed Philip poet poor pride quiet racter Rip Van Winkle Robert Preston round rural scene seated seemed Shakspeare side Sleepy Hollow sometimes song sorrow soul sound spectre spirit Squire steed story sweet tender thing thought tion told tomb trees turn village wandering Wassail Wat Tyler WESTMINSTER ABBEY whole wild William Walworth window Winkle worthy young
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Σελίδα 88 - Nicholas Vedder?" There was a silence for a little while, when an old man replied, in a thin piping voice, "Nicholas Vedder! why, he is dead and gone these eighteen years! There was a wooden tombstone in the church-yard that used to tell all about him, but that's rotten and gone too.
Σελίδα 289 - Say I died true. My love was false, but I was firm, From my hour of birth, Upon my buried body lie Lightly, gentle earth.
Σελίδα 12 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
Σελίδα 83 - The very village was altered; it was larger and more populous. There were rows of houses which he had never seen before, and those which had been his familiar haunts had disappeared. Strange names were over the doors, strange faces at the windows — everything was strange.
Σελίδα 80 - He now suspected that the grave roysters of the mountain had put a trick upon him, and, having dosed him with liquor, had robbed him of his gun. Wolf, too, had disappeared, but he might have strayed away after a squirrel or partridge. He whistled after him and shouted his name, but all in vain; the echoes repeated his whistle and shout, but no dog was to be seen.
Σελίδα 274 - This is the prettiest low-born lass that ever Ran on the green-sward : nothing she does or seems But smacks of something greater than herself, Too noble for this place.
Σελίδα 84 - ... the way to his own house, which he approached with silent awe, expecting every moment to hear the shrill voice of Dame Van Winkle. He found the house gone to decay — the roof fallen in, the windows shattered, and the doors off the hinges. A half-starved dog, that looked like Wolf, was skulking about it. Rip called him by name, but the cur snarled, showed his teeth, and passed on. This was an unkind cut indeed.
Σελίδα 87 - ... knowing, self-important old gentleman, in a sharp cocked hat, made his way through the crowd, putting them to the right and left with his elbows as he passed, and planting himself before Van Winkle, with one arm akimbo, the other resting on his cane, his keen eyes and sharp hat penetrating, as it were, into his very soul, demanded, in an austere tone, "what brought him to the election with a gun on his shoulder and a mob at his heels, and whether he meant to breed a riot in the village?
Σελίδα 78 - ... countenances, that his heart turned within him, and his knees smote together. His companion now emptied the contents of the keg into large flagons, and made signs to him to wait upon the company. He obeyed with fear and trembling; they quaffed the liquor in profound silence, and then returned to their game.
Σελίδα 316 - ... so that though a thief might get in with perfect ease, he would find some embarrassment in getting out : an idea most probably borrowed by the architect, Yost Van Houten, from the mystery of an eel-pot.