The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, المجلد 2J. Murray, 1820 - 419 من الصفحات |
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... mingle together , and throw a gloom over the decline of the year , I passed several hours in rambling about Westminster Abbey . There was some- thing congenial to the season in the mournful magnificence of B 2 WESTMINSTER ABBEY.
... mingle together , and throw a gloom over the decline of the year , I passed several hours in rambling about Westminster Abbey . There was some- thing congenial to the season in the mournful magnificence of B 2 WESTMINSTER ABBEY.
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... passed its threshold , it seemed like stepping back into the regions of antiquity , and losing myself among the shades of former ages . I entered from the inner court of Westminster School , through a long , low , vaulted passage , that ...
... passed its threshold , it seemed like stepping back into the regions of antiquity , and losing myself among the shades of former ages . I entered from the inner court of Westminster School , through a long , low , vaulted passage , that ...
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... passing cloud ; and beheld the sun - gilt pinnacles of the abbey towering into the azure heaven . As I paced the cloisters , sometimes contem- płating this mingled picture of glory and decay , and sometimes endeavouring to decipher the ...
... passing cloud ; and beheld the sun - gilt pinnacles of the abbey towering into the azure heaven . As I paced the cloisters , sometimes contem- płating this mingled picture of glory and decay , and sometimes endeavouring to decipher the ...
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... passed some time in Poet's Corner , which occupies an end of one of the transepts or cross aisles of the Abbey . The monuments are gene- rally simple ; for the lives of literary men afford no striking themes for the sculptor . Shake ...
... passed some time in Poet's Corner , which occupies an end of one of the transepts or cross aisles of the Abbey . The monuments are gene- rally simple ; for the lives of literary men afford no striking themes for the sculptor . Shake ...
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... which poetry has spread over the wars for the Sepul- chre of Christ . They are the reliques of times utterly gone by ; of beings passed from recollec- tion ; of customs and manners with which our's have WESTMINSTER ABBEY . 11.
... which poetry has spread over the wars for the Sepul- chre of Christ . They are the reliques of times utterly gone by ; of beings passed from recollec- tion ; of customs and manners with which our's have WESTMINSTER ABBEY . 11.
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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...