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الصفحة viii
... death , was placed in a gaudily painted Chinese pagoda . 1 For further details consult The Work of Washington Irving , by Charles Dudley Warner ( 1893 ) . Near this were the stocks and the whipping post . viii THE SKETCH BOOK.
... death , was placed in a gaudily painted Chinese pagoda . 1 For further details consult The Work of Washington Irving , by Charles Dudley Warner ( 1893 ) . Near this were the stocks and the whipping post . viii THE SKETCH BOOK.
الصفحة xi
... cast a shadow over his future life . - the death of Matilda Hoffman , the young lady whom he was 1 Sarah Kemble Siddons , a celebrated English actress ( 1755-1831 ) . to have married . Writing of his early love long INTRODUCTION xi.
... cast a shadow over his future life . - the death of Matilda Hoffman , the young lady whom he was 1 Sarah Kemble Siddons , a celebrated English actress ( 1755-1831 ) . to have married . Writing of his early love long INTRODUCTION xi.
الصفحة xiv
... death , were uttering their swan songs ; in America , Cooper and Bryant were becoming well known ; France was soon to be startled by the daring note of Victor Hugo ; and in Germany , Goethe , towering above all his fellow - writers ...
... death , were uttering their swan songs ; in America , Cooper and Bryant were becoming well known ; France was soon to be startled by the daring note of Victor Hugo ; and in Germany , Goethe , towering above all his fellow - writers ...
الصفحة xx
... Death of Benjamin Franklin . 1793. Louis XVI . of France executed . The Reign of Terror . Nearly all the Powers of Europe arrayed against France . Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin . 1795. Final partition of Poland . Cape of Good Hope ...
... Death of Benjamin Franklin . 1793. Louis XVI . of France executed . The Reign of Terror . Nearly all the Powers of Europe arrayed against France . Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin . 1795. Final partition of Poland . Cape of Good Hope ...
الصفحة xxi
... Death of Matilda Hoffman , whom Irving was to have married . Irving goes to Philadelphia to superintend the publication of the " Knickerbocker " History of New York , published December 6 . 1810. Goes into partnership with his brothers ...
... Death of Matilda Hoffman , whom Irving was to have married . Irving goes to Philadelphia to superintend the publication of the " Knickerbocker " History of New York , published December 6 . 1810. Goes into partnership with his brothers ...
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الصفحة 54 - He recognized on the sign, however, the ruby face of King George, under which he had smoked so many a peaceful pipe; but even this was singularly metamorphosed. The red coat was changed for one of blue and buff, a sword was held in the hand instead of a sceptre, the head was decorated with a cocked hat, and underneath was painted in large characters, GENERAL WASHINGTON.
الصفحة 48 - ... 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 the terrors of Dame Van Winkle. As he was about to descend, he heard a voice from a distance, hallooing, " Rip Van Winkle ! Rip Van Winkle ! " He looked...
الصفحة 231 - Lear. The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweet-heart, see, they bark at me.
الصفحة 401 - ... loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weathercock perched upon his spindle neck, to tell which way the wind blew. To see him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a corn-field.
الصفحة 378 - 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 313 - 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 89 - She is far from the land where her young hero sleeps. And lovers around her are sighing; But coldly she turns from their gaze, and weeps, For her heart in his grave is lying. She sings the wild song of her dear native plains, Every note which he loved awaking — Ah '. little they think, who delight in her strains, How the heart of the minstrel is breaking...
الصفحة 41 - 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. Every change of season, every change of weather, indeed, every hour of the day, produces some change in the magical hues and shapes of these mountains, and they are regarded by all the good wives far and near as perfect barometers.
الصفحة 49 - As they ascended Rip every now and then heard long rolling peals like distant thunder, that seemed to issue out of a deep ravine or rather cleft between lofty rocks, toward which their rugged path conducted.
الصفحة 44 - Morning, noon, and night, her tongue was incessantly going, and everything he said or did was sure to produce a torrent of household eloquence. Rip had but one way of replying to all lectures of the kind, and that, by frequent use, had grown into a habit. He shrugged his shoulders, shook his head, cast up his eyes, but said nothing.