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This , we should think , is sufficient encouragement : and could a greater compliment be paid to an anonymous poet , than to have his verses undoubtingly and eagerly ascribed to a person of her worth and genius . 12.
This , we should think , is sufficient encouragement : and could a greater compliment be paid to an anonymous poet , than to have his verses undoubtingly and eagerly ascribed to a person of her worth and genius . 12.
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But , in spite of every precaution , the disease was gaining ground ; and those few persons who had been induced to attend the ... But such instances were of rare occurrence ; and the exemption of this person might , perhaps , be owing ...
But , in spite of every precaution , the disease was gaining ground ; and those few persons who had been induced to attend the ... But such instances were of rare occurrence ; and the exemption of this person might , perhaps , be owing ...
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I advert chiefly to the earlier periods of the plague ; for , in course of time , there was less difficulty in procuring more responsible persons for such services , either from amongst those who had recovered from the disease , or from ...
I advert chiefly to the earlier periods of the plague ; for , in course of time , there was less difficulty in procuring more responsible persons for such services , either from amongst those who had recovered from the disease , or from ...
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He approached just near enough to the sick person to hear his confession ; he then conveyed to him the consecrated wafer by means of a silver rod ; and extreme unction was administered with equal ...
He approached just near enough to the sick person to hear his confession ; he then conveyed to him the consecrated wafer by means of a silver rod ; and extreme unction was administered with equal ...
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The person by whom it appeared to have been conveyed , had recently performed a double quarantine of forty days at Malta , in consequence of his wife having died of plague . On his release from the Lazaretto he had readily obtained ...
The person by whom it appeared to have been conveyed , had recently performed a double quarantine of forty days at Malta , in consequence of his wife having died of plague . On his release from the Lazaretto he had readily obtained ...
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الصفحة 322 - Rip's story was soon told, for the whole twenty years had been to him but as one night. The neighbors 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 hat, who, when the alarm was over, had returned to the field, screwed down the corners of his mouth and shook his head, upon which there was a general shaking of the head throughout the assemblage. It was determined, however, to take the opinion of old Peter...
الصفحة 318 - ... of buttons down the sides, and bunches at the knees. He bore on his shoulder a stout keg, that seemed full of liquor, and made signs for Rip to approach and assist him with the load.
الصفحة 320 - ... at the poor man's perplexities. What was to be done? the morning was passing away, and Rip felt famished for want of his breakfast. He grieved to give up his dog and gun; he dreaded to meet his wife; but it would not do to starve among the mountains. He shook his head, shouldered the rusty firelock, and, with a heart full of trouble and anxiety, turned his steps homeward.
الصفحة 322 - Half-moon ; being permitted in this way to revisit the scenes of his enterprise, and keep a guardian eye upon the river and the great city called by his name.
الصفحة 316 - Rip Van Winkle, however, was one of those happy mortals, of foolish, well-oiled dispositions, who take the world easy, eat white bread or brown, whichever can be got with least thought or trouble, and would rather starve on a penny than work for a pound. If left to himself, he would have whistled life away in perfect contentment ; but his wife kept continually dinning in his ears about his idleness, his carelessness, and the ruin he was bringing on his family.
الصفحة 101 - tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow.
الصفحة 316 - ... about it went wrong, and would go wrong in spite of him. His fences were continually falling to pieces; his cow would either go astray or get among...
الصفحة 319 - 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.
الصفحة 320 - At length he reached to where the ravine had opened through the cliffs to the amphitheatre; but no traces of such opening remained. The rocks presented a high impenetrable wall, over which the torrent came tumbling in a sheet of feathery foam, and fell into a broad deep basin, black from the shadows of the surrounding forest.
الصفحة 320 - There was, as usual, a crowd of folk about the door, but none that Rip recollected. The very character of the people seemed changed. There was a busy, bustling, disputatious tone about it, instead of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquillity.