The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, المجلد 2J. Murray, 1820 - 419 من الصفحات |
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... light laugh of pleasure . The contrast is striking with the deathlike re- pose around : and it has a strange effect upon the feelings , thus to hear the surges of active life hurrying along and beating against the very walls of the ...
... light laugh of pleasure . The contrast is striking with the deathlike re- pose around : and it has a strange effect upon the feelings , thus to hear the surges of active life hurrying along and beating against the very walls of the ...
الصفحة 18
... light struggles dimly through windows darkened by dust . The greater part of the place is in deep sha- dow , and the walls are stained and tinted by time and weather . A marble figure of Mary is stretched upon the tomb , round which is ...
... light struggles dimly through windows darkened by dust . The greater part of the place is in deep sha- dow , and the walls are stained and tinted by time and weather . A marble figure of Mary is stretched upon the tomb , round which is ...
الصفحة 23
... light ; the evening breeze crept through the aisles like the cold breath of the grave ; and even the distant footfall of a verger , traversing the Poets ' Corner , had something strange and dreary in its sound . I slowly retraced my ...
... light ; the evening breeze crept through the aisles like the cold breath of the grave ; and even the distant footfall of a verger , traversing the Poets ' Corner , had something strange and dreary in its sound . I slowly retraced my ...
الصفحة 33
... filled with the glow and warmth of the evening fire . The ruddy blaze diffuses an artificial summer and sunshine through the room , and lights up each VOL . II . D countenance into a kindlier welcome . Where does the honest CHRISTMAS . 33.
... filled with the glow and warmth of the evening fire . The ruddy blaze diffuses an artificial summer and sunshine through the room , and lights up each VOL . II . D countenance into a kindlier welcome . Where does the honest CHRISTMAS . 33.
الصفحة 37
... light showy saloons and gay drawing rooms of the modern villa . Shorn , however , as it is , of its ancient and festive honours , Christmas is still a period of delightful excitement in England . It is grati- fying to see that home ...
... light showy saloons and gay drawing rooms of the modern villa . Shorn , however , as it is , of its ancient and festive honours , Christmas is still a period of delightful excitement in England . It is grati- fying to see that home ...
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الصفحة 60 - Lear. The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweet-heart, see, they bark at me.
الصفحة 108 - Just in the nick the Cook knock'd thrice, And all the waiters in a trice His summons did obey; Each serving man, with dish in hand, March'd boldly up like our train'd band, Presented, and away.
الصفحة 348 - It is said by some to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper, whose head had been carried away by a cannon-ball, in some nameless battle during the revolutionary war; and who is ever and anon seen by the country folk, hurrying along in the gloom of night, as if on the wings of the wind.
الصفحة 378 - Ichabod to attend a merrymaking or "quilting frolic" to be held that evening at Mynheer Van Tassel's; and having delivered his message with that air of importance and effort at fine language which a Negro is apt to display on petty embassies of the kind, he dashed over the brook and was seen scampering away up the hollow, full of the importance and hurry of his mission.
الصفحة 75 - Since ghost there is none to affright thee. Let not the dark thee cumber ; What though the moon does slumber? The stars of the night Will lend thee their light, Like tapers clear without number.
الصفحة 356 - ... and absolute sway with which he lorded it in his little empire, the school, and became wonderfully gentle and ingratiating. He found favor in the eyes of the mothers by petting the children, particularly the youngest, and like the lion bold, which whilom so magnanimously the lamb did hold, he would sit with a child on one knee and rock a cradle with his foot for whole hours together.
الصفحة 213 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat ; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, " Logan is the friend of white men.
الصفحة 367 - It was one of those spacious farmhouses, with high-ridged but lowly-sloping roofs, built in the style handed down from the first Dutch settlers. The low projecting eaves forming a piazza along the front, capable of being closed up in bad weather. Under this were hung flails, harness, various utensils of husbandry, and nets for fishing in the neighboring river.
الصفحة 19 - I could only hear, now and then, the distant voice of the priest repeating the evening service, and the faint responses of the choir ; these paused for a time, and all was hushed. The stillness, the desertion and obscurity that were gradually prevailing around, gave a deeper and more solemn interest to the place : For in the silent grave no conversation.
الصفحة 374 - Thus while the busy dame bustled about the house, or plied her spinning-wheel at one end of the piazza...