The Sketch BookSilver, Burdett, 1896 - 386 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة vii
... RIP VAN WINKLE 1 ENGLISH WRITERS ON AMERICA RURAL LIFE IN ENGLAND : -THE BROKEN HEART THE ART OF BOOK - MAKING A ROYAL POET THE COUNTRY CHURCH THE WIDOW AND HER SON A SUNDAY IN LONDON . THE BOAR'S HEAD TAVERN , EASTCHEAP THE MUTABILITY ...
... RIP VAN WINKLE 1 ENGLISH WRITERS ON AMERICA RURAL LIFE IN ENGLAND : -THE BROKEN HEART THE ART OF BOOK - MAKING A ROYAL POET THE COUNTRY CHURCH THE WIDOW AND HER SON A SUNDAY IN LONDON . THE BOAR'S HEAD TAVERN , EASTCHEAP THE MUTABILITY ...
الصفحة 33
... world has since gone prosperously with him , and his life has , in- deed , been a happy one , yet never has he experienced a moment of more exquisite felicity . RIP VAN WINKLE . A POSTHUMOUS WRITING OF DIEDRICH KNICKERBOCKER The Wife .
... world has since gone prosperously with him , and his life has , in- deed , been a happy one , yet never has he experienced a moment of more exquisite felicity . RIP VAN WINKLE . A POSTHUMOUS WRITING OF DIEDRICH KNICKERBOCKER The Wife .
الصفحة 34
Washington Irving James Chalmers. RIP VAN WINKLE . A POSTHUMOUS WRITING OF DIEDRICH KNICKERBOCKER . By Woden , God of Saxons , From whence comes Wensday , that is Wodensday , Truth is a thing that ever I will keep Unto ... RIP VAN WINKLE 1.
Washington Irving James Chalmers. RIP VAN WINKLE . A POSTHUMOUS WRITING OF DIEDRICH KNICKERBOCKER . By Woden , God of Saxons , From whence comes Wensday , that is Wodensday , Truth is a thing that ever I will keep Unto ... RIP VAN WINKLE 1.
الصفحة 35
... of the province , just about the beginning of the government of the good Peter Stuyvesant ( may he rest in peace ! ) , and there were some of the houses J of the original settlers standing within a few years Rip Van Winkle . 35.
... of the province , just about the beginning of the government of the good Peter Stuyvesant ( may he rest in peace ! ) , and there were some of the houses J of the original settlers standing within a few years Rip Van Winkle . 35.
الصفحة 36
... Rip Van Winkle . He was a descendant of the Van Winkles who figured so gallantly in the chivalrous days of Peter Stuyvesant , and accom- panied him to the siege of Fort Christina . He inherited , however , but little of the martial ...
... Rip Van Winkle . He was a descendant of the Van Winkles who figured so gallantly in the chivalrous days of Peter Stuyvesant , and accom- panied him to the siege of Fort Christina . He inherited , however , but little of the martial ...
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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.