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... nature of it which would enable me to make those satisfactory accounts between us , without which I really feel no satisfaction in engaging - but I will do all I can to promote their circulation , and shall be most ready to attend to ...
... nature of it which would enable me to make those satisfactory accounts between us , without which I really feel no satisfaction in engaging - but I will do all I can to promote their circulation , and shall be most ready to attend to ...
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... nature been more prodigally lavished . Her mighty lakes , like oceans of liquid silver ; her mountains , with their bright aerial tints ; her valleys , teeming with wild fertility ; her tremendous cataracts , thundering in their ...
... nature been more prodigally lavished . Her mighty lakes , like oceans of liquid silver ; her mountains , with their bright aerial tints ; her valleys , teeming with wild fertility ; her tremendous cataracts , thundering in their ...
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... nature seemed to have thrown an insurmountable barrier . We one day descried some shapeless object drifting at a distance . At sea , every thing that breaks the monotony of the surrounding expanse attracts attention . It proved to be ...
... nature seemed to have thrown an insurmountable barrier . We one day descried some shapeless object drifting at a distance . At sea , every thing that breaks the monotony of the surrounding expanse attracts attention . It proved to be ...
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... Nature seems to delight in disap- pointing the assiduities of art , with which it would rear legitimate dulness to maturity ; and to glory in the vigor and laxuriance of her chance productions . She scatters the 30 THE SKETCH - BOOK .
... Nature seems to delight in disap- pointing the assiduities of art , with which it would rear legitimate dulness to maturity ; and to glory in the vigor and laxuriance of her chance productions . She scatters the 30 THE SKETCH - BOOK .
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... nature , he had already devised a way of aiding me . A weekly periodical , he went on to inform me , was about to be set up in Edinburgh , supported by the most respectable talents , and amply furnished with all the necessary ...
... nature , he had already devised a way of aiding me . A weekly periodical , he went on to inform me , was about to be set up in Edinburgh , supported by the most respectable talents , and amply furnished with all the necessary ...
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Página 32 - The name of the child, the air of the mother, the tone of her voice, all awakened a train of recollections in his mind. "What is your name, my good woman?
Página 21 - Eip lay musing on this scene; evening was gradually advancing, the mountains began to throw their long blue shadows over the valleys; he saw that it would be dark long before he could reach the village, and he heaved a heavy sigh when he thought of encountering the terrors of Dame Van Winkle. As he was about to descend, he heard a voice from a distance, hallooing, "Rip Van Winkle!
Página 440 - ... improvement, which is making such incessant changes in other parts of this restless country, sweeps by them unobserved. They are like those little nooks of still water which border a rapid stream; where we may see the straw and bubble riding quietly at anchor, or slowly revolving in their mimic harbor, undisturbed by the rush of the passing current.
Página 23 - They were dressed in a quaint outlandish fashion; some wore short doublets, others jerkins, with long knives in their belts, and most of them had enormous breeches, of similar style with that of the guide's. Their visages, too, were peculiar...
Página 22 - Passing through the ravine, they came to a hollow, like a small amphitheatre, surrounded by perpendicular precipices, over the brinks of which impending trees shot their branches, so that you only caught glimpses of the azure sky and the bright evening cloud.
Página 19 - ... 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. Poor Rip was at last reduced almost to despair; and his only alternative, to escape from the...
Página 445 - Mather's direful tales, until the gathering dusk of the evening made the printed page a mere mist before his eyes. Then, as he wended his way, by swamp and stream and awful woodland, to the farmhouse where he happened to be quartered, every sound of nature, at that witching hour, fluttered his excited imagination : the moan of the whip-poor-will...
Página 21 - Rip Van Winkle ! Rip Van Winkle ! " He looked round, but could see nothing but a crow winging its solitary flight across the mountain. He thought his fancy must have deceived him, and turned again to descend, when he heard the same cry ring through the still evening air; " Rip Van Winkle ! Rip Van Winkle...
Página 32 - Ah, poor man, Rip Van Winkle was his name, but it's twenty years since he went away from home with his gun, and never has been heard of since— his dog came home without him; but whether he shot himself, or was carried away by the Indians, nobody can tell. I was then but a little girl.
Página 35 - ... husband, whom Rip recollected for one of the urchins that used to climb upon his back. As to Rip's son and heir, who was the ditto of himself, seen leaning against the tree, he was employed to work on the farm, but evinced an hereditary disposition to attend to anything else but his business.