The Sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. [pseud.], Volumen1Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1836 |
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... another world . In travelling by land there is a continuity of scene , and a connected succession of persons and incidents , that carry on the story of life , and lessen the effect of absence and separation . We drag , it is.
... another world . In travelling by land there is a continuity of scene , and a connected succession of persons and incidents , that carry on the story of life , and lessen the effect of absence and separation . We drag , it is.
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... story of their end . What sighs have been wafted after that ship ; what prayers offered up at the de- serted fireside of home ! How often has the mistress , the wife , the mother , pored over the daily news , to catch some casual ...
... story of their end . What sighs have been wafted after that ship ; what prayers offered up at the de- serted fireside of home ! How often has the mistress , the wife , the mother , pored over the daily news , to catch some casual ...
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... stories , for a time , put an end to all my fine fancies . The storm increased with the night . The sea was lashed into tremendous confu- sion . There was a fearful , sullen sound of rushing waves , and broken surges . Deep called unto ...
... stories , for a time , put an end to all my fine fancies . The storm increased with the night . The sea was lashed into tremendous confu- sion . There was a fearful , sullen sound of rushing waves , and broken surges . Deep called unto ...
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... story of Mr. Ros- coe's misfortunes , and one which cannot fail to in- terest the studious mind , that the parting with his books seems to have touched upon his tenderest feel- ings , and to have been the only circumstance that could ...
... story of Mr. Ros- coe's misfortunes , and one which cannot fail to in- terest the studious mind , that the parting with his books seems to have touched upon his tenderest feel- ings , and to have been the only circumstance that could ...
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... story , of which I was once a witness . My intimate friend , Leslie , had married a beautiful and accom- plished girl , who had been brought up in the midst of fashionable life . She had , it is true , 34 THE WIFE . The Wife 33.
... story , of which I was once a witness . My intimate friend , Leslie , had married a beautiful and accom- plished girl , who had been brought up in the midst of fashionable life . She had , it is true , 34 THE WIFE . The Wife 33.
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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.