The Sketch BookB. Tauchnitz, 1843 - 446 páginas |
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... interest . As we sailed up the Mersey , I re- connoitred the shores with a telescope . My eye dwelt with delight on neat cottages , with their trim shrub- beries and green grass - plots . I saw the mouldering ruin of an abbey overrun ...
... interest . As we sailed up the Mersey , I re- connoitred the shores with a telescope . My eye dwelt with delight on neat cottages , with their trim shrub- beries and green grass - plots . I saw the mouldering ruin of an abbey overrun ...
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... interest in my eyes , and induced me particularly to point him out to my country- men . Eminent as are his literary merits , he is but one among the many distinguished authors of this in- tellectual nation . They , however , in general ...
... interest in my eyes , and induced me particularly to point him out to my country- men . Eminent as are his literary merits , he is but one among the many distinguished authors of this in- tellectual nation . They , however , in general ...
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... interests by intelligent and public - spirited individuals . He has shown how much may be done for a place in hours of leisure by one master spirit , and how com- pletely it can give its own impress to surrounding ob- jects . Like his ...
... interests by intelligent and public - spirited individuals . He has shown how much may be done for a place in hours of leisure by one master spirit , and how com- pletely it can give its own impress to surrounding ob- jects . Like his ...
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... interest the studious mind , that the parting with his books seems to have touched upon his tenderest feelings , and to have been the only circumstance that could provoke the notice of his muse . The scholar alone knows how dear these ...
... interest the studious mind , that the parting with his books seems to have touched upon his tenderest feelings , and to have been the only circumstance that could provoke the notice of his muse . The scholar alone knows how dear these ...
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... interest in- tervene , none can equal them for profound and philoso- phical views of society , or faithful and graphical descrip- tions of external objects ; but when either the interest or reputation of their own country comes in ...
... interest in- tervene , none can equal them for profound and philoso- phical views of society , or faithful and graphical descrip- tions of external objects ; but when either the interest or reputation of their own country comes in ...
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ancient antiquity Baltus Van Tassel Baron beautiful Boar's Head bosom Bracebridge bustle Canonchet castle character charm Christmas church churchyard cottage countenance custom Dame dark deep delight distant door earth Eastcheap England English fancy favourite feelings fire flowers gathered goblin grave green hall hand heard heart honour horse hung Ichabod Ichabod Crane Indian John Bull kind lady Little Britain living look mansion Master Simon melancholy merry mind mingled monuments mountain nature neighbourhood neighbours ness never night noble old English old gentleman once passed Philip poet poor pride quiet racter Rip Van Winkle Robert Preston round rural scene seemed Shakspeare Sketch Book sleep Sleepy Hollow song sorrow soul sound spectre spirit Squire story Stratford sweet tender thought tion tomb tower trees turn village wandering Wassail Wat Tyler whole wild William Walworth window Winkle worthy young
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Página 63 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks. Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam...
Página 377 - 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.
Página 42 - In that same village, and in one of these very houses (which, to tell the precise truth, was sadly time-worn and weather-beaten), there lived many years since, while the country was yet a province of Great Britain, a simple, good-natured fellow of the name of Rip Van Winkle. He was a descendant of the Van Winkles who figured so gallantly in the chivalrous days of Peter Stuyvesant, and accompanied him to the siege of Fort Christina.
Página 435 - Gunpowder sprang upon the bridge; he thundered over the resounding planks; he gained the opposite side; and now Ichabod cast a look behind to see if his pursuer should vanish, according to rule, in a flash of fire and brimstone. Just then he saw the goblin rising in his stirrups and in the very act of hurling his head at him. Ichabod endeavored to dodge the horrible missile, but too late.
Página 90 - She sings the wild songs of her dear native plains, Every note which he loved awaking — Ah! little they think, who delight in her strains, How the heart of the minstrel is breaking!
Página 322 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat ; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, " Logan is the friend of white men.
Página 146 - Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet, sitting in my Dolphin chamber, at the round table, by a sea-coal fire, on Wednesday, in Whitsun week, when the prince broke thy head for liking his father to a singing-man of Windsor ; thou didst swear to me then, as I was washing thy wound, to marry me, and make me my lady, thy wife.
Página 420 - ... and nature wore that rich and golden livery which we always associate with the idea of abundance. The forests had put on their sober brown and yellow, while some trees of the tenderer kind had been nipped by the frosts into brilliant dyes of orange, purple and scarlet. Streaming files of wild ducks began to make their appearance high in the air ; the bark of the squirrel might be heard from the groves of beech and hickory nuts, and the pensive whistle of the quail at intervals from the neighboring...
Página 45 - Morning, noon, and night, her tongue was incessantly going, and everything he said or did was sure to produce a torrent of household eloquence. Rip had but one way of replying to all lectures of the kind, and that, by frequent use, had grown into a habit. He shrugged his shoulders, shook his head, cast up his eyes, but said nothing.
Página 53 - ... dreaded to meet his wife ; but it would not do to starve among the mountains. He shook his head, shouldered the rusty firelock, and with a heart full of trouble and anxiety turned his steps homeward.