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الصفحة viii
... INDIAN CHARACTER PHILIP OF POKANOKET JOHN BULL L 185 192 204 218 233 239 254 273 285 . 302 THE PRIDE OF THE VILLAGE 314 THE ANGLER 323 THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW 332 L'ENVOY 365 APPENDIX 368 NOTES 372 APPRECIATIONS . “ EVERY reader has ...
... INDIAN CHARACTER PHILIP OF POKANOKET JOHN BULL L 185 192 204 218 233 239 254 273 285 . 302 THE PRIDE OF THE VILLAGE 314 THE ANGLER 323 THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW 332 L'ENVOY 365 APPENDIX 368 NOTES 372 APPRECIATIONS . “ EVERY reader has ...
الصفحة xiii
... Indian summer of his fame ! A simple stone , with but a date and name , Marks his secluded resting - place beside The river that he loved and glorified . Here in the autumn of his days he came , But the dry leaves of life were all ...
... Indian summer of his fame ! A simple stone , with but a date and name , Marks his secluded resting - place beside The river that he loved and glorified . Here in the autumn of his days he came , But the dry leaves of life were all ...
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... Indians or a Don Cossack . " I must , therefore , keep on pretty much as I have begun ; writing when I can , not when I would . I shall occasionally shift my residence and write whatever is suggested by objects before me , or whatever ...
... Indians or a Don Cossack . " I must , therefore , keep on pretty much as I have begun ; writing when I can , not when I would . I shall occasionally shift my residence and write whatever is suggested by objects before me , or whatever ...
الصفحة 36
... Indians . > Whenever he went dodging about the village , he was sur- rounded by a troop of them , hanging on his skirts , clamber- ing on his back , and playing a thousand tricks on him with impunity ; and not a dog would bark at him ...
... Indians . > Whenever he went dodging about the village , he was sur- rounded by a troop of them , hanging on his skirts , clamber- ing on his back , and playing a thousand tricks on him with impunity ; and not a dog would bark at him ...
الصفحة 37
... Indian corn , or building stone - fences ; the women of the village , too , used to employ him to run their errands , and to do such little odd jobs as their less obliging hus- bands would not do for them . In a word Rip was ready to ...
... Indian corn , or building stone - fences ; the women of the village , too , used to employ him to run their errands , and to do such little odd jobs as their less obliging hus- bands would not do for them . In a word Rip was ready to ...
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الصفحة 54 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
الصفحة 40 - Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as years of matrimony rolled on ; a tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. For a long while he used to console himself, when driven from home, by frequenting a kind of perpetual club of the sages, philosophers, and other idle personages of the village, which held its sessions on a bench before a small inn. designated by a rubicund portrait of his Majesty George the Third.
الصفحة 39 - His children, too, were as ragged and wild as if they belonged to nobody. His son Rip, an urchin begotten in his own likeness, promised to inherit the habits, with the old clothes of his father. He was generally seen trooping like a colt at his mother's heels, equipped in a pair of his father's cast-off...
الصفحة 39 - ... perseverance ; for he would sit on a wet rock, with a rod as long and heavy as a Tartar's lance, and fish all day without a murmur, even though he should not be encouraged by a single nibble.
الصفحة 46 - A troop of strange children ran at his heels, hooting after him, and pointing at his gray beard. The dogs, too, not one of which he recognized for an old acquaintance, barked at him as he passed. The very village was altered : it was larger and more populous. There were rows of houses which he had never seen before, and those which had been his familiar haunts had disappeared. Strange names were over the doors, strange faces at the windows : everything was strange.
الصفحة 27 - ... erewhile To share their converse, and enjoy their smile, And tempers, as he may, affliction's dart; Thus, loved associates, chiefs of elder art, Teachers of wisdom, who could once beguile My tedious hours, and lighten every toil, I now resign you; nor with fainting heart; For pass a few short years, or days, or hours, And happier seasons may their dawn unfold, And all your sacred fellowship restore ; When, freed from earth, unlimited its powers, Mind shall with mind direct communion hold, And...
الصفحة 52 - 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 146 - There is a remembrance of the dead to which we turn even from the charms of the living. "Oh, the grave! the grave! It buries every error, covers every defect, extinguishes every resentment. From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections.
الصفحة 358 - Ichabod stole forth with the air of one who had been sacking a hen-roost, rather than a fair Lady's heart. Without looking to the right or left to notice the scene of rural wealth on which he had so often gloated, he went straight to the stable, and with several hearty cuffs and kicks roused his steed most uncourteously from the comfortable quarters in which he was soundly sleeping, dreaming of mountains of corn and oats and whole valleys of timothy and clover.
الصفحة 38 - Indeed, to the latter circumstance might be owing that meekness of spirit which gained him such universal popularity ; for those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home. Their tempers, doubtless, are rendered pliant and malleable in the fiery furnace of domestic tribulation, and a curtain lecture is worth all the sermons in the world for teaching the virtues of patience and long-suffering.