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الصفحة xvi
... passed down the Ohio and Mis- sissippi and told of the life led upon their banks . " The French Village " is a picture of New Orleans dialect and life that dates from nearly half a century before Cable designed his fine work in this ...
... passed down the Ohio and Mis- sissippi and told of the life led upon their banks . " The French Village " is a picture of New Orleans dialect and life that dates from nearly half a century before Cable designed his fine work in this ...
الصفحة 12
... an old newspaper fell into their hands , from some passing traveller . How solemnly they would listen to the con- tents , as drawled out by Derrick Van Bummel , the schoolmaster , a dapper learned little man , who was 12 BEST AMERICAN ...
... an old newspaper fell into their hands , from some passing traveller . How solemnly they would listen to the con- tents , as drawled out by Derrick Van Bummel , the schoolmaster , a dapper learned little man , who was 12 BEST AMERICAN ...
الصفحة 16
... Passing through the ravine , they came to a hollow , like a small amphitheatre , surrounded by perpendicular precipices , over the brinks of which , impending trees shot their branches , so that you only caught glimpses of the azure sky ...
... Passing through the ravine , they came to a hollow , like a small amphitheatre , surrounded by perpendicular precipices , over the brinks of which , impending trees shot their branches , so that you only caught glimpses of the azure sky ...
الصفحة 20
... passing away , and Rip felt famished for want of his breakfast . He grieved to give up his dog and gun ; he dreaded to meet his wife ; but it would not do to starve among the mountains . He shook his head , shouldered the rusty fire ...
... passing away , and Rip felt famished for want of his breakfast . He grieved to give up his dog and gun ; he dreaded to meet his wife ; but it would not do to starve among the mountains . He shook his head , shouldered the rusty fire ...
الصفحة 21
... passed . The very village was altered : it was larger and more populous . There were rows of houses which he had never seen before , and those which had been his familiar haunts had dis- appeared . Strange names were over the doors ...
... passed . The very village was altered : it was larger and more populous . There were rows of houses which he had never seen before , and those which had been his familiar haunts had dis- appeared . Strange names were over the doors ...
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الصفحة 19 - On waking, he found himself on the green knoll whence he had first seen the old man of the glen. He rubbed his eyes. It was a bright, sunny morning. The birds were hopping and twittering among the bushes, and the eagle was wheeling aloft and breasting the pure mountain breeze. "Surely," thought Rip. "I have not slept here all night.
الصفحة 15 - 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 On nearer approach he was still more surprised at the singularity of the stranger's appearance....
الصفحة 349 - But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
الصفحة 256 - There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart - an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime.
الصفحة 8 - ... about their summits, which, in the last rays of the setting sun, will glow and light up like a crown of glory.
الصفحة 269 - Banners yellow, glorious, golden, On its roof did float and flow; (This, all this, was in the olden Time, long ago) And every gentle air that dallied, In that sweet day, Along the ramparts plumed and pallid, A winged odor went away.
الصفحة 72 - ... 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. It was connected with...
الصفحة 271 - But, in his disordered fancy, the idea had assumed a more daring character, and trespassed, under certain conditions, upon the kingdom of inorganization. I lack words to express the full extent, or the earnest abandon of his persuasion. The belief, however, was connected (as I have previously hinted) with the gray stones of the home of his forefathers.
الصفحة 109 - he murmured, addressing the Great Stone Face, "is not this man worthy to resemble thee?" The Face seemed to smile, but answered not a word. Now it happened that the poet, though he dwelt so far away, had not only heard of 'Ernest, but had meditated much upon his character, until he deemed nothing so desirable as to meet this man, whose untaught wisdom walked hand in hand with the noble simplicity of his life. One summer morning, therefore, he took passage by the railroad, and, in the decline of...
الصفحة 271 - Belphegor of Machiavelli; the Heaven and Hell of Swedenborg; the Subterranean Voyage of Nicholas Klimm by Holberg; the Chiromancy of Robert Flud, of Jean D'Indagine, and of De la Chambre; the Journey into the Blue Distance of Tieck; and the City of the Sun of Campanella.