The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, المجلد 1J. Murray, 1821 - 336 من الصفحات |
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... Baron Von Land- short . It is now quite fallen to decay , and almost buried among beech trees and dark firs ; above * The erudite reader , well versed in good - for - nothing lore , will perceive that the above Tale must have been ...
... Baron Von Land- short . It is now quite fallen to decay , and almost buried among beech trees and dark firs ; above * The erudite reader , well versed in good - for - nothing lore , will perceive that the above Tale must have been ...
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... Baron was a dry branch of the great family of Katzenellenbogen , * and inherited the reliques of the property , and all the pride of his ancestors . Though the warlike disposition of his predeces- sors had much impaired the family ...
... Baron was a dry branch of the great family of Katzenellenbogen , * and inherited the reliques of the property , and all the pride of his ancestors . Though the warlike disposition of his predeces- sors had much impaired the family ...
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... Baron . All the nurses , gossips , and country cousins , assured her father that she had not her equal for beauty in all Ger- many ; and who should know better than they ? She had , moreover , been brought up with great care under the ...
... Baron . All the nurses , gossips , and country cousins , assured her father that she had not her equal for beauty in all Ger- many ; and who should know better than they ? She had , moreover , been brought up with great care under the ...
الصفحة 281
... Baron , and took every possible occasion to come in swarms and enliven the castle . All family festivals were commemorated by these good people at the Baron's expense ; and when they were filled with good cheer , they would declare that ...
... Baron , and took every possible occasion to come in swarms and enliven the castle . All family festivals were commemorated by these good people at the Baron's expense ; and when they were filled with good cheer , they would declare that ...
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... Baron Von Landshort , the oracle of his table , the absolute monarch of his little territory , and happy above all things , in the per- suasion that he was the wisest man of the age . At the time of which my story treats there was a ...
... Baron Von Landshort , the oracle of his table , the absolute monarch of his little territory , and happy above all things , in the per- suasion that he was the wisest man of the age . At the time of which my story treats there was a ...
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الصفحة 52 - The children of the village, too, would shout with joy whenever he approached. He assisted at their sports, made their playthings, taught them to fly kites and shoot marbles, and told them long stories of ghosts, witches, and Indians.
الصفحة 83 - 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...
الصفحة 66 - ... that overhung a sunny precipice; and who, secure in their elevation, seemed to look down and scoff 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 70 - ... gentleman, in a sharp cocked hat, made his way through the crowd, putting them to the right and left with his elbows as he passed, and planting himself before Van Winkle, with one arm akimbo, the other resting on his cane, his keen eyes and sharp hat penetrating, as it were, into his very soul, demanded, in an austere tone, "what brought him to the election with a gun on his shoulder and a mob at his heels, and whether he meant to breed a riot in the village?
الصفحة 67 - ... 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 64 - He determined to revisit the scene of the last evening's gambol, and if he met with any of the party, to demand his dog and gun. As he rose to walk he found himself stiff in the joints, and wanting in his usual activity. "These mountain beds do not agree with me...
الصفحة 50 - In that same village, and in one of these very houses (which, to tell the precise truth, was sadly time-worn and weather-beaten), there lived many years since, while the country was yet a province of Great Britain, a simple, good-natured fellow of the name of Rip Van Winkle. He was a descendant of the Van Winkles who figured so gallantly in the chivalrous days of Peter Stuyvesant, and accompanied him to the siege of Fort Christina.
الصفحة 57 - ... curl about his nose, would gravely nod his head in token of perfect approbation. From even this strong-hold the unlucky Rip was at length routed by his termagant wife, who would suddenly break in upon the tranquillity of the assemblage and call the members all to naught ; nor was that august personage, Nicholas Vedder himself, sacred from the daring tongue of this terrible virago, who charged him outright with encouraging her husband in habits of idleness.
الصفحة 261 - Where is the mother who would willingly forget the infant that perished like a blossom from her arms, though every recollection is a pang ? Where is the child that would willingly forget the most tender of parents, though to remember be but to lament?
الصفحة 49 - WHOEVER has made a voyage up the Hudson, must remember the Kaatskill Mountains. They are a dismembered branch of the great Appalachian family, and are seen away to the west of the river, swelling up to a noble height, and lording it over the surrounding country.