Essays from The Sketch Book, الأجزاء 1-2Houghton Mifflin, 1891 - 246 من الصفحات |
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... Clarence Stedman born . 1832 Sir Walter Scott dies . Thomas Moore dies . 1834 Samuel Taylor Cole- ridge dies . Charles Lamb dies . 1830 land . CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE ( continued ) . PERIOD COVERED BY IRVING'S. CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE .
... Clarence Stedman born . 1832 Sir Walter Scott dies . Thomas Moore dies . 1834 Samuel Taylor Cole- ridge dies . Charles Lamb dies . 1830 land . CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE ( continued ) . PERIOD COVERED BY IRVING'S. CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE .
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... land . His foreign birth and education gave him significant advantages as an observer of English life , and he at once began the writing of those papers , stories , and sketches which appeared in the separate numbers of The Sketch Book ...
... land . His foreign birth and education gave him significant advantages as an observer of English life , and he at once began the writing of those papers , stories , and sketches which appeared in the separate numbers of The Sketch Book ...
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... land- scape is cloudless they will gather a hood of gray vapors about their summits , which , in the last rays of the setting sun , will glow and light up like a crown of glory . 1 At the foot of these fairy 1 mountains , the voyager ...
... land- scape is cloudless they will gather a hood of gray vapors about their summits , which , in the last rays of the setting sun , will glow and light up like a crown of glory . 1 At the foot of these fairy 1 mountains , the voyager ...
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... land peddler . ' 99 There was a drop of comfort at least , in this intel- ligence . The honest man could contain himself no longer . He caught his daughter and her child in hiɛ arms . " I am your father ! " cried he- " Young Rip Van ...
... land peddler . ' 99 There was a drop of comfort at least , in this intel- ligence . The honest man could contain himself no longer . He caught his daughter and her child in hiɛ arms . " I am your father ! " cried he- " Young Rip Van ...
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... land of drowsy head it was , Of dreams that wave before the half - shut eye ; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass , Forever flushing round a summer sky . Castle of Indolence.1 In the bosom of one of those spacious coves which ...
... land of drowsy head it was , Of dreams that wave before the half - shut eye ; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass , Forever flushing round a summer sky . Castle of Indolence.1 In the bosom of one of those spacious coves which ...
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abbey admiration ancient aunts Baltus Van Tassel baron beautiful born bosom Bracebridge Brom Bones Canonchet castle cheer Christmas church clouds companion countenance deep delight distant door Dutch England English Falstaff fancy favorite feelings friends gathered gentleman goblin grave green hall hand haunted head heard heart horse Hudson hung Ichabod Ichabod Crane Increase Mather Indian Irving Irving's justice kind King Philip's War Knickerbocker lady land lived looked Master Simon ment Metacomet mind mingled monuments morning mountain nature neighborhood neighboring night passed Philip poet POKANOKET poor quiet Rip Van Winkle round rural scene seemed sepulchre Shakspeare Shakspeare's side Sleepy Hollow sometimes sound spectre spirit steed story strange stranger stream taste Thomas Lucy thought tion tomb trees tribes ture turn village voyage Wampanoags wandering WASHINGTON IRVING Westminster Westminster Abbey whole wild window Wurtzburg
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الصفحة 30 - ... reality of it, and insisted that Rip had been out of his head, and that this was one point on which he always remained flighty. The old Dutch inhabitants, however, almost universally gave it full credit. Even to this day they never hear a thunderstorm of a summer afternoon about the Kaatskill, but...
الصفحة 13 - Winkls as years of matrimony rolled on ; a tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. For a long while he used to console himself, when driven from home, by frequenting a kind of perpetual club of the sages, philosophers, and other idle personages of the village...
الصفحة 16 - Rip Van Winkle! Rip Van Winkle!" He looked round, but could see nothing but a crow winging its solitary flight across the mountain. He thought his fancy must have deceived him, and turned again 'to descend, when he heard the same cry ring through the still evening air: "Rip Van Winkle! Rip Van Winkle!" — at the same time Wolf bristled up his back, and giving a low growl, skulked to his master's side, looking fearfully down into the glen. Rip now felt a vague apprehension stealing over him; he looked...
الصفحة 24 - Alas! gentlemen," cried Rip, somewhat dismayed, "I am a poor quiet man, a native of the place, and a loyal subject of the king, God bless him!" Here a general shout burst from the by-standers— "A tory! a tory! a spy! a refugee! hustle him! away with him!
الصفحة 13 - The moment Wolf entered the house, his crest fell ; his tail drooped to the ground or curled between his legs ; he sneaked about with a gallows air, casting many a sidelong glance at Dame Van Winkle ; and, at the least flourish of a broomstick or ladle, he would fly to the door with yelping precipitation.
الصفحة 37 - ... 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 23 - ... contents of an ancient newspaper. In place of these, a lean, bilious-looking fellow, with his pockets full of handbills, was haranguing vehemently about rights of citizens...
الصفحة 9 - 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 15 - ... of his wife, was to take gun in hand and stroll away into the woods. Here he would sometimes seat himself at the foot of a tree, and share the contents of his wallet with Wolf, with whom he sympathized as a fellow-sufferer in persecution.
الصفحة 71 - Ichabod cast a look behind to see if his pursuer should vanish according to rule, in a flash of fire and brimstone. Just then he saw the goblin rising in his stirrups, and in the very act of hurling his head at him. Ichabod endeavored to dodge the horrible missile, but too late. It encountered his cranium with a tremendous crash — he was tumbled headlong into the dust; and Gunpowder, the black steed, and the goblin rider, passed by like a whirlwind.