The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, المجلد 2J. Murray, 1820 - 419 من الصفحات |
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... road ; has frequent confer- ences with the village housewives , who look upon him as a man of great trust and depen- dence ; and he seems to have a good under- standing with every bright - eyed country lass . The moment he arrives where ...
... road ; has frequent confer- ences with the village housewives , who look upon him as a man of great trust and depen- dence ; and he seems to have a good under- standing with every bright - eyed country lass . The moment he arrives where ...
الصفحة 50
... road - side , little dreaming of the bustling times that awaited him . I was pleased to see the fondness with which the little fellows leaped about the steady old footman , and hugged the pointer ; who wriggled his whole body for joy ...
... road - side , little dreaming of the bustling times that awaited him . I was pleased to see the fondness with which the little fellows leaped about the steady old footman , and hugged the pointer ; who wriggled his whole body for joy ...
الصفحة 51
... road brought us in sight of a neat country seat . I could just distinguish the forms of a lady and two young girls in the portico , and I saw my little comrades , with Bantam , Carlo , and old John , trooping along the carriage road . I ...
... road brought us in sight of a neat country seat . I could just distinguish the forms of a lady and two young girls in the portico , and I saw my little comrades , with Bantam , Carlo , and old John , trooping along the carriage road . I ...
الصفحة 57
... road , in rather a lonely part of the coun- try , without any rival gentry near him , he has that most enviable of all blessings to an English- man , an opportunity of indulging the bent of his own humour without molestation . Being ...
... road , in rather a lonely part of the coun- try , without any rival gentry near him , he has that most enviable of all blessings to an English- man , an opportunity of indulging the bent of his own humour without molestation . Being ...
الصفحة 59
... road wound through a noble avenue of trees , among the naked branches of which the moon glittered as she rolled through the deep vault of a cloudless sky . The lawn beyond was sheeted with a slight covering of snow , which here and ...
... road wound through a noble avenue of trees , among the naked branches of which the moon glittered as she rolled through the deep vault of a cloudless sky . The lawn beyond was sheeted with a slight covering of snow , which here and ...
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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...