The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, المجلد 2 |
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الصفحة 10
Society has acquired a more enlightened and elegant tone ; but it has lost many
of its strong local peculiarities , its homebred feelings , its honest fireside delights
. The traditionary customs of golden hearted antiquity , its feudal hospitalities ...
Society has acquired a more enlightened and elegant tone ; but it has lost many
of its strong local peculiarities , its homebred feelings , its honest fireside delights
. The traditionary customs of golden hearted antiquity , its feudal hospitalities ...
الصفحة 75
... i . e . on Christmas day in the morning , had all his tenants and neighbours
entered his hall by day break . The strong beer was broached , and the black
jacks went plentifully about with toast , sugar and nutmeg , and good Cheshire
cheese .
... i . e . on Christmas day in the morning , had all his tenants and neighbours
entered his hall by day break . The strong beer was broached , and the black
jacks went plentifully about with toast , sugar and nutmeg , and good Cheshire
cheese .
الصفحة 198
There was a strong temptation , therefore , to the victor to be merciless ; not so
much to gratify any cruel revenge , as to provide for future security . The Indians
had also the superstitious belief , frequent among barbarous nations , and
prevalent ...
There was a strong temptation , therefore , to the victor to be merciless ; not so
much to gratify any cruel revenge , as to provide for future security . The Indians
had also the superstitious belief , frequent among barbarous nations , and
prevalent ...
الصفحة 233
Apprehensive of attack , Canonchet had conveyed the greater part of his stores ,
together with the old , the infirm , the women and children of his tribe , to a strong
fortress ; where he and Philip had likewise drawn up the flower of their forces .
Apprehensive of attack , Canonchet had conveyed the greater part of his stores ,
together with the old , the infirm , the women and children of his tribe , to a strong
fortress ; where he and Philip had likewise drawn up the flower of their forces .
الصفحة 270
Though there may be something ratherwhimsical in all this , yet I confess I cannot
look upon John ' s situation without strong feelings of interest . With all his odd
humours and obstinate prejudices , he is a sterling hearted old blade . He may
not ...
Though there may be something ratherwhimsical in all this , yet I confess I cannot
look upon John ' s situation without strong feelings of interest . With all his odd
humours and obstinate prejudices , he is a sterling hearted old blade . He may
not ...
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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 268 - 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 298 - 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 267 - 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 301 - 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 302 - 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 262 - 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.
معلومات المراجع
| العنوان | The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, المجلد 2 The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, Washington Irving |
| المؤلف | Washington Irving |
| الناشر | John Murray, 1822 |
| أصلي من | جامعة أوكسفورد |
| الكتب ذات التنسيق الرقمي | 10 نيسان (إبريل) 2006 |
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