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... earth ! Further reading and thinking , though they brought this vague inclination into more reasonable bounds , only served to make it more decided . I visited various parts of my own country ; and had I been merely a lover of fine ...
... earth ! Further reading and thinking , though they brought this vague inclination into more reasonable bounds , only served to make it more decided . I visited various parts of my own country ; and had I been merely a lover of fine ...
الصفحة 11
Washington Irving Elmer Ellsworth Wentworth. men of the earth . We have , it is true , our great men in America : not a city but has an ample share of them . I have mingled among them in my time , and been almost withered by the shade ...
Washington Irving Elmer Ellsworth Wentworth. men of the earth . We have , it is true , our great men in America : not a city but has an ample share of them . I have mingled among them in my time , and been almost withered by the shade ...
الصفحة 15
... earth ; and of those wild phantasms that swell the tales of fishermen and sailors . Sometimes a distant sail , gliding along the edge of the ocean , would be another theme of idle speculation . How interesting this fragment of a world ...
... earth ; and of those wild phantasms that swell the tales of fishermen and sailors . Sometimes a distant sail , gliding along the edge of the ocean , would be another theme of idle speculation . How interesting this fragment of a world ...
الصفحة 20
... whose voices have gone forth to the ends of the earth ; with whose minds I have communed even in the sol- itudes of America . Accustomed , as we are in our country , to know European writers only by their works , we 20 VROSCOE.
... whose voices have gone forth to the ends of the earth ; with whose minds I have communed even in the sol- itudes of America . Accustomed , as we are in our country , to know European writers only by their works , we 20 VROSCOE.
الصفحة 27
... fellowship restore : When , freed from earth , unlimited its powers , Mind shall with mind direct communion hold , And kindred spirits meet to part no more . • ༢༢༥ , THE WIFE . The treasures of the deep are not Roscoe . 27 27.
... fellowship restore : When , freed from earth , unlimited its powers , Mind shall with mind direct communion hold , And kindred spirits meet to part no more . • ༢༢༥ , THE WIFE . The treasures of the deep are not Roscoe . 27 27.
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ancient antiquity baron beauty bosom Bracebridge bustle Canonchet castle character charm Christmas church clouds cottage countenance dark deep delight door earth Eastcheap Edward the Confessor elegant Encyclopædia Britannica England English Falstaff fancy favorite feelings flowers friends grave green hall hand haunted head heard heart Ichabod Ichabod Crane Indian John Bull kind lady land Little Britain living looked mansion Master Simon melancholy ments merry mind mingled monuments morning mountain nature neighborhood neighbors never night noble old English old gentleman once passed Peter Stuyvesant poem poet poor pride quiet Rip Van Winkle round rural scene seemed seen Shakspeare side silent Sleepy Hollow sometimes song sorrow soul sound spectre spirit squire story strange sweet tender thought tion tomb tower trees village wandering Westminster Abbey whole wife wild William Walworth window worthy writers young
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الصفحة 40 - Bummel, the schoolmaster, doling forth the contents of an ancient newspaper. In place of these, a lean, bilious-looking fellow, with his pockets full of handbills, was haranguing vehemently about rights of citizens...
الصفحة 141 - Lay a garland on my hearse, Of the dismal yew; Maidens, willow branches bear; Say I died true: My love was false, but I was firm From my hour of birth. Upon my buried body lie Lightly, gentle earth!
الصفحة 30 - He would carry a fowling-piece on his shoulder for hours together, trudging through woods and swamps, and up hill and down dale, to shoot a few squirrels or wild pigeons.
الصفحة 34 - Rip Van Winkle! Rip Van Winkle!" He looked around, but could see nothing but a crow winging its solitary flight across the mountain. He thought his fancy must have deceived him, and turned again to descend, when he heard the same cry ring through the still evening air : " Rip Van Winkle ! Rip Van Winkle...
الصفحة 43 - ... which there was a general shaking of the head throughout the assemblage. It was determined, however, to take the opinion of old Peter Vanderdonk, who was seen slowly advancing up the road. He was a descendant of the historian of that name, who wrote one of the earliest accounts of the province. Peter was the most ancient inhabitant of the village, and well versed in all the wonderful events and traditions of the neighbourhood.
الصفحة 274 - Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus 'gins arise, His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes: With every thing that pretty is, My lady sweet, arise: Arise, arise.
الصفحة 33 - Panting and fatigued, he threw himself, late in the afternoon, on a green knoll, covered with mountain herbage, that crowned the brow of a precipice. From an opening between the trees he could overlook all the lower country for many a mile of rich woodland. He saw at a distance the lordly Hudson, far, far below him, moving on its silent but majestic course, with the reflection of a purple cloud, or the sail of a lagging bark, here and there sleeping on its glassy bosom, and at last losing itself...
الصفحة 207 - 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. Then, Julia, let me woo thee, Thus, thus to come unto me ; And when I shall meet Thy silvery feet, My soul I'll pour into thee.
الصفحة 358 - A great elm-tree spread its broad branches over it, at the foot of which bubbled up a spring of the softest and sweetest water, in a little well formed of a barrel, and then stole sparkling away through the grass, to a neighboring brook, that bubbled along among alders and dwarf willows.
الصفحة 47 - 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 midday beam...