The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, المجلد 2John Murray, 1822 |
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الصفحة 12
... sometimes in the profound repose of the country , " telling the night watches to his feathery dames , " was thought by the common people to announce the approach of this sacred festival : " Some say that ever ' gainst that season comes ...
... sometimes in the profound repose of the country , " telling the night watches to his feathery dames , " was thought by the common people to announce the approach of this sacred festival : " Some say that ever ' gainst that season comes ...
الصفحة 13
... sometimes waft the freshness of the distant fields to the weary pilgrim of the desert . Stranger and sojourner as I am in the land— though for me no social hearth may blaze , no hospitable roof throw open its doors , nor the warm grasp ...
... sometimes waft the freshness of the distant fields to the weary pilgrim of the desert . Stranger and sojourner as I am in the land— though for me no social hearth may blaze , no hospitable roof throw open its doors , nor the warm grasp ...
الصفحة 21
... Sometimes he delivers a hare or pheasant ; sometimes jerks a small parcel or newspaper to the door of a public house ; and sometimes , with knowing leer and words of sly import , hands to some half - blushing half- laughing housemaid an ...
... Sometimes he delivers a hare or pheasant ; sometimes jerks a small parcel or newspaper to the door of a public house ; and sometimes , with knowing leer and words of sly import , hands to some half - blushing half- laughing housemaid an ...
الصفحة 23
... Sometimes he delivers a hare or pheasant ; sometimes jerks a small parcel or newspaper to the door of a public house ; and sometimes , with knowing leer and words of sly import , hands to some half - blushing half- laughing housemaid an ...
... Sometimes he delivers a hare or pheasant ; sometimes jerks a small parcel or newspaper to the door of a public house ; and sometimes , with knowing leer and words of sly import , hands to some half - blushing half- laughing housemaid an ...
الصفحة 31
... sometimes that he had not been born a few centuries earlier , when Eng- land was itself , and had its peculiar manners and customs . As he lives at some distance from the main road , in rather a lonely part of the country , without any ...
... sometimes that he had not been born a few centuries earlier , when Eng- land was itself , and had its peculiar manners and customs . As he lives at some distance from the main road , in rather a lonely part of the country , without any ...
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الصفحة 117 - 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 270 - Ichabod entered the hall, which formed the centre of the mansion and the place of usual residence. Here, rows of resplendent pewter, ranged on a long dresser, dazzled his eyes. In one corner stood a huge bag of wool ready to be spun; in another a quantity of linsey-woolsey just from the loom; ears of Indian corn, and strings of dried apples and peaches, hung in gay festoons along the...
الصفحة 126 - Ay, and rato-lorum too; and a gentleman born, master parson; who writes himself armigero, — in any bill, warrant, quittance, or obligation, armigero.
الصفحة 300 - In the centre of the road stood an enormous tulip-tree, which towered like a giant above all the other trees of the neighborhood, and formed a kind of landmark. Its limbs were gnarled and fantastic, large enough to form trunks for ordinary trees, twisting down almost to the earth, and rising again into the air.
الصفحة 269 - Nay, his busy fancy already realized his hopes, and presented to him the blooming Katrina, with a whole family of children, mounted on the top of a waggon loaded with household trumpery, with pots and kettles dangling beneath ; and he beheld himself bestriding a pacing mare, with a colt at her heels, setting out for Kentucky, Tennessee, or the Lord knows where. When he entered the house the conquest of his heart was complete. It was one of those spacious farm-houses, with high-ridged, but lowly-sloping...
الصفحة 303 - Gunpowder, who dashed forward, snuffling and snorting, but came to a stand just by the bridge, with a suddenness that had nearly sent his rider sprawling over his head. Just at this moment a plashy tramp by the side of the bridge caught the sensitive ear of Ichabod. In the dark shadow of the grove, on the margin of the brook, he beheld something huge, misshapen, black and towering. It stirred not, but seemed gathered up in the gloom, like some gigantic monster ready to spring upon the traveller.
الصفحة 12 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm ; So hallowed and so gracious is the time.
الصفحة 62 - Caput apri defero Reddens laudes Domino. The boar's head in hand bring I, With garlands gay and rosemary. I pray you all synge merily Qui estis in convivio.
الصفحة 304 - Just then the shadowy object of alarm put itself in motion, and with a scramble and a bound stood at once in the middle of the road. Though the night was dark and dismal, yet the form of the unknown might now in some degree be ascertained. He appeared to be a horseman...
الصفحة 264 - She was a blooming lass of fresh eighteen; plump as a partridge; ripe and melting and rosy-cheeked as one of her father's peaches, and universally famed, not merely for her beauty, but her vast expectations. She was withal a little of a coquette, as might be perceived even in her dress, which was a mixture of ancient and modern fashions, as most suited to set off her charms.