The Beauties of Washington Irving ...W. Swan Sonnenschein & Company, 1884 - 373 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα xvi
... lady . Many of his ( published ) letters were written to her , and in writing to an old friend he thus alludes to her , " she was like a sister to me . " The following extract from a letter to his friend , Mr. John Freeman , of New York ...
... lady . Many of his ( published ) letters were written to her , and in writing to an old friend he thus alludes to her , " she was like a sister to me . " The following extract from a letter to his friend , Mr. John Freeman , of New York ...
Σελίδα 21
... hand , as a fine lady does her train in bad weather . Rip Van Winkle , however , was one of those happy mortals , of foolish , well - oiled dispositions who take the world easy , eat white bread or WASHINGTON IRVING . 27 21.
... hand , as a fine lady does her train in bad weather . Rip Van Winkle , however , was one of those happy mortals , of foolish , well - oiled dispositions who take the world easy , eat white bread or WASHINGTON IRVING . 27 21.
Σελίδα 36
... lady's brows ; no more entwines with flowers his shining sword ; nor through the livelong lazy summer's day , chants forth his love - sick soul in madrigals . To manhood roused , he spurns the amorous lute ; doffs from his brawny back ...
... lady's brows ; no more entwines with flowers his shining sword ; nor through the livelong lazy summer's day , chants forth his love - sick soul in madrigals . To manhood roused , he spurns the amorous lute ; doffs from his brawny back ...
Σελίδα 48
... lady - like pleasure in publishing it to the world . It is this truly feminine propensity that induces her con- tinually to be prying into cabinets of princes , listening at the key - holes of senate chambers , and peering through ...
... lady - like pleasure in publishing it to the world . It is this truly feminine propensity that induces her con- tinually to be prying into cabinets of princes , listening at the key - holes of senate chambers , and peering through ...
Σελίδα 62
... lady , according to the mode of those most concise and simple reasoners , the knights - errant of yore - by single combat ; but Ichabod was too conscious of the superior might of his adversary to enter the lists against him : he had ...
... lady , according to the mode of those most concise and simple reasoners , the knights - errant of yore - by single combat ; but Ichabod was too conscious of the superior might of his adversary to enter the lists against him : he had ...
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Σελίδα 294 - 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 23 - ... all-besetting terrors of a woman's tongue ? The moment Wolf entered the house his crest fell, his tail drooped to the ground, or curled between his legs, he sneaked about with a gallows air, casting many a sidelong glance at Dame Van Winkle, and at the least flourish of a broomstick or ladle, he would fly to the door with yelping precipitation.
Σελίδα 244 - ... band of chosen singers, where in his own mind he completely carried away the palm from the parson. Certain it is his voice resounded far above all the rest of the congregation ; and there are peculiar quavers still to be heard in that church, and which may even be heard half a mile off, quite to the opposite side of the mill-pond, on a still Sunday morning, which are said to be legitimately descended from the nose of Ichabod Crane. Thus by divers little makeshifts in that ingenious way which...
Σελίδα 347 - The hair of the affrighted pedagogue rose upon his head with terror. What was to be done? To turn and fly was now too late; and besides, what chance was there of escaping ghost or goblin, if such it was, which could ride upon the wings of the wind? Summoning up, therefore, a show of courage, he demanded in stammering accents —
Σελίδα 243 - ... and laying it on those of the strong. Your mere puny stripling, that winced at the least flourish of the rod, was passed by with indulgence; but the claims of justice were satisfied by inflicting a double portion on some little tough, wrongheaded, broad-skirted Dutch urchin, who sulked and swelled and grew dogged and sullen beneath the birch. All this he called "doing his duty by their parents; " and he never inflicted a chastisement without following it by the assurance, so consolatory to the...
Σελίδα 24 - From even this strong-hold the unlucky Rip was at length routed by his termagant wife, who would suddenly break in upon the tranquillity of the assemblage and call the members all to naught ; nor was that august personage, Nicholas Vedder himself, sacred from the daring tongue of this terrible virago, who charged him outright with encouraging her husband in habits of idleness.
Σελίδα 349 - He seized it by the pommel, and endeavored to hold it firm, but in vain; and had just time to save himself by clasping old Gunpowder round the neck, when the saddle fell to the earth, and he heard it trampled under foot by his pursuer.
Σελίδα 23 - For a long while he used to console himself, when driven from home, by frequenting a kind of perpetual club of the sages, philosophers, and other idle personages of the village, which held its sessions on a bench before a small inn, designated by a rubicund portrait of His Majesty George the Third. Here they used to sit in the shade through a long, lazy summer's day, talking listlessly over village gossip or telling endless sleepy stories about nothing.
Σελίδα 347 - Hessian, now quickened his steed, in hopes of leaving him behind. The stranger, however, quickened his horse to an equal pace.
Σελίδα 349 - An opening in the trees now cheered him with the hopes that the church bridge was at hand. The wavering reflection of a silver star in the bosom of the brook told him that he was not mistaken. He saw the walls of the church dimly glaring under the trees beyond. He recollected the place where Brom Bones's ghostly competitor had disappeared. "If I can but reach that bridge,