The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, GentGeorge P. Putnam, 1850 - 465 páginas |
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... volume of clouds over head seemed rent asunder by flashes of lightning which quivered along the foam- ing billows , and made the succeeding darkness doubly terrible . The thunders bellowed over the wild waste of waters , THE VOYAGE . 17.
... volume of clouds over head seemed rent asunder by flashes of lightning which quivered along the foam- ing billows , and made the succeeding darkness doubly terrible . The thunders bellowed over the wild waste of waters , THE VOYAGE . 17.
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... darkness and humiliation , yet there is still a little world of love at home , of which he is the monarch . Whereas a single man is apt to run to waste and self - neglect ; to fancy himself lonely and abandoned , and his heart to fall ...
... darkness and humiliation , yet there is still a little world of love at home , of which he is the monarch . Whereas a single man is apt to run to waste and self - neglect ; to fancy himself lonely and abandoned , and his heart to fall ...
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... There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire , which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity ; but which kindles up , and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity . No man knows what the THE WIFE . 35.
... There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire , which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity ; but which kindles up , and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity . No man knows what the THE WIFE . 35.
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... dark downward path of low humility suddenly pointed out before her , and might cling to the sunny regions in which they had hitherto reveled . Besides , ruin in fashionable life is accompanied by so many galling mortifica- tions , to ...
... dark downward path of low humility suddenly pointed out before her , and might cling to the sunny regions in which they had hitherto reveled . Besides , ruin in fashionable life is accompanied by so many galling mortifica- tions , to ...
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... 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 8 RIP VAN WINKLE . 49.
... 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 8 RIP VAN WINKLE . 49.
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Página 178 - 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.
Página 43 - When the weather is fair and settled, they are clothed in blue and purple, and print their bold outlines on the clear evening sky ; but sometimes, when the rest of the landscape is cloudless, they will gather a hood of gray vapors about their summits, which, in the last rays of the setting sun, will glow and light up like a crown of glory.
Página 52 - On waking, he found himself on the green knoll whence he had first seen the old man of the glen. He rubbed his eyes. It was a bright, sunny morning. The birds were hopping and twittering among the bushes, and the eagle was wheeling aloft, and breasting the pure mountain breeze. "Surely," thought Rip, "I have not slept here all night.
Página 423 - Greensburgh, but which is more generally and properly known by the name of Tarry Town. This name was given, we are told, in former days, by the good housewives of the adjacent country, from the inveterate propensity of their husbands to linger about the village tavern on market days.
Página 238 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Página 60 - Half-moon ; being permitted in this way to revisit the scenes of his enterprise, and keep a guardian eye upon the river, and the great city called by his name. That his father had once seen them in their old Dutch dresses playing at nine-pins in a hollow of the mountain; and that he himself had heard, one summer afternoon, the sound of their balls, like distant peals of thunder.
Página 43 - WHOEVER has made a voyage up the Hudson must remember the Kaatskill mountains. They are a dismembered branch of the great Appalachian family, and are seen away to the west of the river, swelling up to a noble height, and lording it over the surrounding country.
Página 57 - Alas! gentlemen," cried Rip, somewhat dismayed, "I am a poor, quiet man, a native of the place, and a loyal subject of the King, God bless him!" Here a general shout burst from the by-standers: "A Tory! a Tory! a spy! a refugee! hustle him! away with him!" It was with great difficulty that the selfimportant man in the cocked hat restored order; and, having assumed a tenfold austerity of brow, demanded again of the unknown culprit what he came there for, and whom he was seeking. The poor man humbly...
Página 433 - Satan in divers shapes, in his lonely perambulations, yet daylight put an end to all these evils; and he would have passed a pleasant life of it, in despite of the Devil and all his works, if his path had not been crossed by a being that causes more perplexity to mortal man than ghosts, goblins, and the whole race of witches put together, and that was — a woman.
Página 93 - She is far from the land where her young hero sleeps, And lovers around her are sighing : But coldly she turns from their gaze, and weeps, For her heart in his grave is lying.