The Sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. [pseud.], Volumen1Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1836 |
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... close these desultory remarks better , than by quoting the words of a modern English poet who has depicted it with remarkable felicity . Through each gradation , from the castled hall , The city dome , the villa crowned with shade , But ...
... close these desultory remarks better , than by quoting the words of a modern English poet who has depicted it with remarkable felicity . Through each gradation , from the castled hall , The city dome , the villa crowned with shade , But ...
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... close upon his haunches ; in a twink- ling off went his wig ; at every turn some strip of rai- ment was peeled away ; until in a few moments , from his domineering pomp , he shrunk into a little pursy , " chopp'd bald shot , " and made ...
... close upon his haunches ; in a twink- ling off went his wig ; at every turn some strip of rai- ment was peeled away ; until in a few moments , from his domineering pomp , he shrunk into a little pursy , " chopp'd bald shot , " and made ...
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... close round his rosy face , was seated on the box , with a sleek Danish dog beside him . Two footmen in gorgeous liveries , with huge bouquets , and gold - headed canes , lolled behind . The carriage rose and sunk on its long springs ...
... close round his rosy face , was seated on the box , with a sleek Danish dog beside him . Two footmen in gorgeous liveries , with huge bouquets , and gold - headed canes , lolled behind . The carriage rose and sunk on its long springs ...
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... close above the wound — their elastic spirits soon rise beneath the pressure - their green and ductile affections soon twine around new objects . But the sorrows of the poor , who have no outward appliances to soothe — the sor- rows of ...
... close above the wound — their elastic spirits soon rise beneath the pressure - their green and ductile affections soon twine around new objects . But the sorrows of the poor , who have no outward appliances to soothe — the sor- rows of ...
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... close lanes but few rays of reflected light are enabled to struggle down to the inhabitants , whose broad day is at best but a tolerable twilight . The room was partitioned into boxes , each containing a table spread with a clean white ...
... close lanes but few rays of reflected light are enabled to struggle down to the inhabitants , whose broad day is at best but a tolerable twilight . The room was partitioned into boxes , each containing a table spread with a clean white ...
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Página 56 - 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 53 - He was a short, square-built old fellow, with thick bushy hair, and a grizzled beard. His dress was of the antique Dutch fashion: a cloth jerkin...
Página 45 - 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 69 - 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 51 - ... of his wife, was to take gun in hand and stroll away into the woods. Here he would sometimes seat himself at the foot of a tree, and share the contents of his wallet with Wolf, with whom he sympathized as a fellow-sufferer in persecution. "Poor Wolf...
Página 59 - It was with some difficulty that he found 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.
Página 62 - 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 churchyard that used to tell all about him, but that's rotten and gone too.
Página 63 - Rip looked, and beheld a precise counterpart of himself as he went up the mountain ; apparently as lazy, and certainly as ragged. The poor fellow was now completely confounded.
Página 59 - 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.
Página 225 - They linger about these as about the tombs of friends and companions ; for indeed there is something of companionship between the author and the reader. Other men are known to posterity only through the medium of history, which is continually growing faint and obscure : but the intercourse between the author and his fellowmen is ever new, active, and immediate.