The Sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Esq, Volumen1John Murray, 1834 - 4 páginas |
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... told the history of times gone by , and every mouldering stone was a chronicle . I longed to wander over the scenes of renowned achieve- ment to tread , as it were , in the footsteps of antiquity - to loiter about the ruined castle - to ...
... told the history of times gone by , and every mouldering stone was a chronicle . I longed to wander over the scenes of renowned achieve- ment to tread , as it were , in the footsteps of antiquity - to loiter about the ruined castle - to ...
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... told of his having been unfor- tunate in business . I could not pity him , as I heard some rich men do . I considered him far above the reach of my pity . Those who live only for the world , and in the world , may be cast down by the ...
... told of his having been unfor- tunate in business . I could not pity him , as I heard some rich men do . I considered him far above the reach of my pity . Those who live only for the world , and in the world , may be cast down by the ...
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... told them long stories of ghosts , witches , and Indians . Whenever he went dodging about the village , he was surrounded by a troop of them , hanging on his skirts , clambering on his back , and playing RIP VAN WINKLE . 47.
... told them long stories of ghosts , witches , and Indians . Whenever he went dodging about the village , he was surrounded by a troop of them , hanging on his skirts , clambering on his back , and playing RIP VAN WINKLE . 47.
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... told , for the whole twenty years had been to him but as one night . The neighbours stared when they heard it ; some were seen to wink at each other , and put their tongues in their cheeks : and the self - important man in the cocked ...
... told , for the whole twenty years had been to him but as one night . The neighbours stared when they heard it ; some were seen to wink at each other , and put their tongues in their cheeks : and the self - important man in the cocked ...
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... or joy at his deliverance . - He used to tell his story to every stranger that arrived at Mr. Doolittle's hotel . He was observed , at first , to vary on some points every time he told it , which was , doubtless , 70 RIP VAN WINKLE .
... or joy at his deliverance . - He used to tell his story to every stranger that arrived at Mr. Doolittle's hotel . He was observed , at first , to vary on some points every time he told it , which was , doubtless , 70 RIP VAN WINKLE .
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Página 53 - Wolf would wag his tail, look wistfully in his master's face, and if dogs can feel pity I verily believe he reciprocated the sentiment with all his heart.
Página 65 - Where's Van Bummel, the schoolmaster?" "He went off to the wars too, was a great militia general, and is now in Congress." Rip's heart died away at hearing of these sad changes in his home and friends, and finding himself thus alone in the world. Every answer puzzled him too, by treating of such enormous lapses of time, and of matters which he could not understand: war — congress — Stoney-Point; — he had no courage to ask after any more friends, but cried out in despair. "Does nobody here know...
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 52 - Vedder, a patriarch of the village, and landlord of the inn, at the door of which he took his seat from morning till night, just moving sufficiently to avoid the sun and keep in the shade of a large tree; so that the neighbors could tell the hour by his movements as accurately as by a sundial.
Página 64 - The orator bustled up to him, and drawing him partly aside, inquired, "on which side he voted?" Rip stared in vacant stupidity. Another short but busy little fellow pulled him by the arm, and rising on tiptoe, inquired in his ear, "whether he was Federal or Democrat." 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...
Página 70 - It was some time before he could get into the regular track of gossip, or could be made to comprehend the strange events that had taken place during his torpor. How that there had been a revolutionary war — that the country had thrown off the yoke of old England — and that, instead of being a subject of his Majesty George the Third, he was now a free citizen of the United States.
Página 11 - What sighs have been wafted after that ship! what prayers offered up at the deserted fireside of home! How often has the mistress, the wife, the mother, pored over the daily news, to catch some casual intelligence of this rover of the deep! How has expectation darkened into anxiety — anxiety- into dread — and dread into despair! Alas! not one memento may ever return for love to cherish. All that may ever be known, is, that she sailed from her port, "and was never heard of more!
Página 238 - Where is the mother who would willingly forget the infant that perished like a blossom from her arms, though every recollection is a pang ? Where is the child that would willingly forget the most tender of parents, though to remember be but to lament...
Página 292 - What long-drawn cadences! What solemn, sweeping concords ! It grows more and more dense and powerful — it fills the vast pile, and seems to jar the very walls — the ear is stunned — the senses are overwhelmed. And now it is winding up in full jubilee — it is rising from the earth to heaven — the very soul seems rapt away and floated upwards on this swelling tide of harmony...
Página 57 - What seemed particularly odd to Rip was, that, though these folks were evidently amusing themselves, yet they maintained the gravest faces, the most mysterious silence; and were, withal, the most melancholy party of pleasure he had ever witnessed.