The sketch book of Geoffrey Crayon, gent, المجلد 2Baudry ..., and J. Didot, Senior, 1823 |
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... as the Arabian breeze will 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 12 CHRISTMAS .
... as the Arabian breeze will 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 12 CHRISTMAS .
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... 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 - blush- ing half - laughing housemaid ...
... 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 - blush- ing half - laughing housemaid ...
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... authors who flourished at least two centuries since ; who , he insists , wrote and thought more like true Englishmen ( a ) Peacham's Complete Gentleman , 1622 . than any of their successors . He even regrets sometimes 30 2 CHRISTMAS EVE .
... authors who flourished at least two centuries since ; who , he insists , wrote and thought more like true Englishmen ( a ) Peacham's Complete Gentleman , 1622 . than any of their successors . He even regrets sometimes 30 2 CHRISTMAS EVE .
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Washington Irving. than any of their successors . He even regrets sometimes that he had not been born a few centuries earlier , when England was itself , and had its peculiar manners and customs . As he lives at some distance from the ...
Washington Irving. than any of their successors . He even regrets sometimes that he had not been born a few centuries earlier , when England was itself , and had its peculiar manners and customs . As he lives at some distance from the ...
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... sometimes the root of a tree , brought into the house with great ceremony , on Christmas eve , laid in the fire place , and lighted with the brand of last year's clog . While it lasted , there was great drinking , singing , and telling ...
... sometimes the root of a tree , brought into the house with great ceremony , on Christmas eve , laid in the fire place , and lighted with the brand of last year's clog . While it lasted , there was great drinking , singing , and telling ...
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الصفحة 34 - Lear. The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweet-heart, see, they bark at me.
الصفحة 316 - ... so that though a thief might get in with perfect ease, he would find some embarrassment in getting out : an idea most probably borrowed by the architect, Yost Van Houten, from the mystery of an eel-pot.
الصفحة 274 - This is the prettiest low-born lass that ever Ran on the green-sward : nothing she does or seems But smacks of something greater than herself, Too noble for this place.
الصفحة 11 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
الصفحة 365 - ... to the left. This road leads through a sandy hollow, shaded by trees for about a quarter of a mile, where it crosses the bridge famous in goblin story, and just beyond swells the green knoll on which stands the whitewashed church.
الصفحة 330 - 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 wagon 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.
الصفحة 322 - ... or the sudden rustling in the thicket of birds frightened from their roost. The fireflies, too, which sparkled most vividly in the darkest places, now and then startled him, as one of uncommon brightness would stream across his path; and if...
الصفحة 331 - ... 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 317 - ... now and then by the authoritative voice of the master, in the tone of menace or command; or, peradventure, by the appalling sound of the birch, as he urged some tardy loiterer along the flowery path of knowledge. Truth to say, he was a conscientious man, and ever bore in mind the golden maxim, " Spare the rod and spoil the child.
الصفحة 323 - ... floating from the distant hill, or along the dusky road. Another of his sources of fearful pleasure was, to pass long winter evenings with the old Dutch wives, as they sat spinning by the fire, with a row of apples roasting and...