The Sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. [pseud.], المجلد 1Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1836 |
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... once into the bustle and novelties of another world . In travelling by land there is a continuity of scene , and a connected succession of persons and incidents , that carry on the story of life , and lessen the effect of absence and ...
... once into the bustle and novelties of another world . In travelling by land there is a continuity of scene , and a connected succession of persons and incidents , that carry on the story of life , and lessen the effect of absence and ...
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... once . It makes us conscious of being cast loose from the secure anchorage of settled life , and sent adrift upon a doubtful world . It interposes a gulf , not merely imaginary , but real , between us and our homes - a gulf , subject to ...
... once . It makes us conscious of being cast loose from the secure anchorage of settled life , and sent adrift upon a doubtful world . It interposes a gulf , not merely imaginary , but real , between us and our homes - a gulf , subject to ...
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... once sailing , " said he , " in a fine stout ship , across the banks of Newfoundland , one of those heavy fogs that prevail in those parts rendered it im- possible for us to see far a - head , even in the day- time ; but at night the ...
... once sailing , " said he , " in a fine stout ship , across the banks of Newfoundland , one of those heavy fogs that prevail in those parts rendered it im- possible for us to see far a - head , even in the day- time ; but at night the ...
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... once visiting this haunt of the learned , my attention was attracted to a person just entering the room . He was advanced in life , tall , and of a form that might once have been commanding , but it was a little bowed by time - perhaps ...
... once visiting this haunt of the learned , my attention was attracted to a person just entering the room . He was advanced in life , tall , and of a form that might once have been commanding , but it was a little bowed by time - perhaps ...
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... once welled its pure waters in a sacred shade , but finding it dry and dusty , with the lizard and the toad brooding over the shat- tered marbles . I inquired after the fate of Mr. Roscoe's library , which had consisted of scarce and ...
... once welled its pure waters in a sacred shade , but finding it dry and dusty , with the lizard and the toad brooding over the shat- tered marbles . I inquired after the fate of Mr. Roscoe's library , which had consisted of scarce and ...
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الصفحة 56 - 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 53 - He was a short, square-built old fellow, with thick bushy hair, and a grizzled beard. His dress was of the antique Dutch fashion: a cloth jerkin...
الصفحة 45 - 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 69 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant Nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam...
الصفحة 51 - ... 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. "Poor Wolf...
الصفحة 59 - It was with some difficulty that he found the way to his own house, which he approached with silent awe, expecting every moment to hear the shrill voice of Dame Van Winkle. He found the house gone to decay, the roof fallen in, the windows shattered, and the doors off the hinges. A half -starved dog that looked like Wolf was skulking about it.
الصفحة 62 - There was a silence for a little while, when an old man replied, in a thin, piping voice, "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 63 - Rip looked, and beheld a precise counterpart of himself as he went up the mountain ; apparently as lazy, and certainly as ragged. The poor fellow was now completely confounded.
الصفحة 59 - 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 disappeared. Strange names were over the doors— strange faces at the windows — everything was strange.
الصفحة 225 - They linger about these as about the tombs of friends and companions ; for indeed there is something of companionship between the author and the reader. Other men are known to posterity only through the medium of history, which is continually growing faint and obscure : but the intercourse between the author and his fellowmen is ever new, active, and immediate.