The Sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. [pseud.], Volumen1Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1836 |
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... noble Roman style of countenance ; a head that would have pleased a painter ; and though some slight fur- rows on his brow showed that wasting thought had been busy there , yet his eye still beamed with the fire of a poetic soul . There ...
... noble Roman style of countenance ; a head that would have pleased a painter ; and though some slight fur- rows on his brow showed that wasting thought had been busy there , yet his eye still beamed with the fire of a poetic soul . There ...
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... noble institutions for literary and scientific pur- poses , which reflect such credit on Liverpool , and are giving such an impulse to the public mind , have mostly been originated , and have all been effectively promoted , by Mr ...
... noble institutions for literary and scientific pur- poses , which reflect such credit on Liverpool , and are giving such an impulse to the public mind , have mostly been originated , and have all been effectively promoted , by Mr ...
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... noble souls , and are , like manna , sent from heaven , in the wilderness of this world . While my feelings were yet alive on the subject , it was my fortune to light on farther traces of Mr. Ros- coe . I was riding out with a gentleman ...
... noble souls , and are , like manna , sent from heaven , in the wilderness of this world . While my feelings were yet alive on the subject , it was my fortune to light on farther traces of Mr. Ros- coe . I was riding out with a gentleman ...
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... noble vessel that had been driven on shore . Did such a scene admit of ludicrous associations , we might imagine something whimsical in this strange irruption into the regions of learning . Pigmies rummaging the armoury of a giant , and ...
... noble vessel that had been driven on shore . Did such a scene admit of ludicrous associations , we might imagine something whimsical in this strange irruption into the regions of learning . Pigmies rummaging the armoury of a giant , and ...
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... noble mind struggling under misfortunes by one of the most delicate , but most expressive tokens of public sympathy . It is difficult , however , to estimate a man of genius properly who is daily before our eyes . , He becomes mingled ...
... noble mind struggling under misfortunes by one of the most delicate , but most expressive tokens of public sympathy . It is difficult , however , to estimate a man of genius properly who is daily before our eyes . , He becomes mingled ...
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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.