The Sketch Book, Volumen1Macmillan, 1916 - 371 páginas |
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... fancy of the reader more than to his judgment . My writ- ings may appear , therefore , light and trifling in our country of philosophers and politicians . But if they possess merit in the class of literature to which they belong , it is ...
... fancy of the reader more than to his judgment . My writ- ings may appear , therefore , light and trifling in our country of philosophers and politicians . But if they possess merit in the class of literature to which they belong , it is ...
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... fancy them some fairy realms , and peo- ple them with a creation of my own ; -to watch the gentle undulating billows rolling their silver volumes , as if to die away on those happy shores . There was a delicious sensation of mingled ...
... fancy them some fairy realms , and peo- ple them with a creation of my own ; -to watch the gentle undulating billows rolling their silver volumes , as if to die away on those happy shores . There was a delicious sensation of mingled ...
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... fancy ; but has gone forth into the highways and thoroughfares of life , he has planted bowers by the wayside , for the refreshment of the pilgrim and the so- journer , and has opened pure fountains , where the laboring man may turn ...
... fancy ; but has gone forth into the highways and thoroughfares of life , he has planted bowers by the wayside , for the refreshment of the pilgrim and the so- journer , and has opened pure fountains , where the laboring man may turn ...
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... fancy pictured into retainers of the law . It was like visiting some classic fountain , that had once welled its pure waters in a sacred shade , but finding it dry and dusty , with the lizard and the toad brooding over the shattered ...
... fancy pictured into retainers of the law . It was like visiting some classic fountain , that had once welled its pure waters in a sacred shade , but finding it dry and dusty , with the lizard and the toad brooding over the shattered ...
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... fancy , but a faithful transcript from the writer's heart . TO MY BOOKS As one who , destined from his friends to part , Regrets his loss , but hopes again erewhile To share their converse , and enjoy their smile , And tempers as he may ...
... fancy , but a faithful transcript from the writer's heart . TO MY BOOKS As one who , destined from his friends to part , Regrets his loss , but hopes again erewhile To share their converse , and enjoy their smile , And tempers as he may ...
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Página 169 - History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription moulders from the tablet; the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand; and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust?
Página 39 - Rip was equally at a loss to comprehend the question, when a knowing, self-important old gentleman in a sharp cocked hat made his way through the crowd, putting them to the right and left with his elbows as he passed, and planting himself before Van Winkle with one arm akimbo, the other resting on his cane, his keen eyes and sharp hat penetrating, as it were, into his very soul, demanded in an austere tone what brought him to the election with a gun on his shoulder and a mob at his heels, and whether...
Página 35 - 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 36 - He determined to revisit the scene of the last evening's gambol, and if he met with any of the party, to demand his dog and gun. As he rose to walk he found himself stiff in the joints, and wanting in his usual activity. "These mountain beds do not agree with me...
Página 29 - ... of him. His fences were continually falling to pieces ; his cow would either go astray, or get among the cabbages ; weeds were sure to grow quicker in his fields than...
Página 38 - He recognized on the sign, however, the ruby face of King George, under which he had smoked so many a peaceful pipe; but even this was singularly metamorphosed. The red coat was changed for one of blue and buff, a sword was held in the hand instead of a sceptre, the head was decorated with a cocked hat, and underneath was painted in large characters, GENERAL WASHINGTON.
Página 179 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
Página 32 - ... 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 32 - He saw at a distance the lordly Hudson, far, far below him, moving on its silent but majestic course, with the reflection of a purple cloud, or the sail of a lagging bark, here and there sleeping on its glassy bosom and at last losing itself in the blue highlands.
Página 39 - There was a busy, bustling, disputatious tone about it, instead of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquillity. He looked in vain for the sage Nicholas Vedder, with his broad face, double chin, and fair long pipe, uttering clouds of tobacco smoke instead of idle speeches; or Van Bummel, the schoolmaster, doling forth the contents of an ancient newspaper.