American Prose: Hawthorne: Irving: Longfellow: Whittier: Holmes: Lowell: Thoreau: EmersonHoughton, Mifflin, 1880 - 424 من الصفحات |
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... followed . The book does not profess to be representative of the authors included , but com- plete papers or stories have been taken of a length permitting a fair display of some of the author's characteristics . The object has been to ...
... followed . The book does not profess to be representative of the authors included , but com- plete papers or stories have been taken of a length permitting a fair display of some of the author's characteristics . The object has been to ...
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... followed in 1851. The Blithedale Romance in 1852. He spent the years 1853-1860 in Europe , and the immediate result of his life there is in Our Old Home : A Series of English Sketches , published in 1863 , and The Marble Faun , or the ...
... followed in 1851. The Blithedale Romance in 1852. He spent the years 1853-1860 in Europe , and the immediate result of his life there is in Our Old Home : A Series of English Sketches , published in 1863 , and The Marble Faun , or the ...
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... followed him , droopingly and reluctant ; for all the glow and sparkle was gone out of her figure ; and whereas just before she had resembled a bright , frosty , star - gemmed evening , with a crimson gleam on the cold horizon , she now ...
... followed him , droopingly and reluctant ; for all the glow and sparkle was gone out of her figure ; and whereas just before she had resembled a bright , frosty , star - gemmed evening , with a crimson gleam on the cold horizon , she now ...
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... followed , gath- ering volume as it rolled along . Never had a modern miracle occurred in such broad daylight , nor in the presence of such a multitude of wit- The airy image , as if conscious that she was the object of the murmurs and ...
... followed , gath- ering volume as it rolled along . Never had a modern miracle occurred in such broad daylight , nor in the presence of such a multitude of wit- The airy image , as if conscious that she was the object of the murmurs and ...
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... followed his business industriously for many years , acquired a competence , and in the latter part of his life attained to a dignified station in the church , be- ing remembered in records and traditions as Deacon Drowne , the carver ...
... followed his business industriously for many years , acquired a competence , and in the latter part of his life attained to a dignified station in the church , be- ing remembered in records and traditions as Deacon Drowne , the carver ...
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الصفحة 122 - ... growl, skulked to his master's side, looking fearfully down into the glen. Rip now felt a vague apprehension stealing over him; he looked anxiously in the same direction, and perceived a strange figure slowly toiling up the rocks, and bending under the weight of something he carried on his back. He was surprised to see any human being in this lonely and unfrequented place; but supposing it to be some one of the neighborhood in need of his assistance, he hastened down to yield it.
الصفحة 132 - Nicholas Vedder! why, he is dead and gone these eighteen years! There was a wooden tombstone in the churchyard that used to tell all about him, but that's rotten and gone too.
الصفحة 115 - At the foot of these fairy mountains, the voyager may have descried the light smoke curling up from a village, whose shingle-roofs gleam among the trees, just where the blue tints of the upland melt away into the fresh green of the nearer landscape.
الصفحة 119 - Rip's sole domestic adherent was his dog Wolf, who was as much hen-pecked as his master ; for Dame Van Winkle regarded them as companions in idleness, and even looked upon Wolf with an evil eye, as the cause of his master's going so often astray.
الصفحة 122 - ... highlands. On the other side, he looked down into a deep mountain glen, wild, lonely, and shagged, the bottom filled with fragments from the impending cliffs, and scarcely lighted by the reflected rays of the setting sun. For some time Rip lay musing on this scene ; evening was gradually advancing ; the mountains began to throw their long blue shadows over the valleys ; he saw that it would be dark long before he could reach the village, and he heaved a heavy sigh when he thought of encountering...
الصفحة 114 - 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.
الصفحة 124 - They were dressed in a quaint outlandish fashion; some wore short doublets, others jerkins, with long knives in their belts, and most of them had enormous breeches, of similar style with that of the guide's. Their visages, too, were peculiar ; one had a large head, broad face, and small piggish eyes; the face of another seemed to consist entirely of nose, and was surmounted by a white sugarloaf hat, set off with a little red cock's tail.
الصفحة 122 - ... 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 in the blue highlands.
الصفحة 125 - ... that his heart turned within him, and his knees smote together. His companion now emptied the contents of the keg into large flagons, and made signs to him to wait upon the company. He obeyed with fear and trembling ; they quaffed the liquor in profound silence, and then returned to their game.
الصفحة 124 - What seemed particularly odd to Rip was, that though these folks were evidently amusing themselves, yet they maintained the gravest faces, the most mysterious silence, and were, withal, the most melancholy party of pleasure he had ever witnessed.