The Sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. [pseud.], المجلد 1Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1836 |
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... rich in the accumulated treas- ures of age . Her very ruins told the history of times gone by , and every mouldering stone was a chronicle . I longed to wander over the scenes of renowned achievement - to tread , as it were , in the ...
... rich in the accumulated treas- ures of age . Her very ruins told the history of times gone by , and every mouldering stone was a chronicle . I longed to wander over the scenes of renowned achievement - to tread , as it were , in the ...
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... rich and wealthy lading , Hallo ! my fancie , whither wilt thou go ? OLD POEM . To an American visiting Europe , the long voyage he has to make is an excellent preparative . The temporary absence of worldly scenes and employ- ments ...
... rich and wealthy lading , Hallo ! my fancie , whither wilt thou go ? OLD POEM . To an American visiting Europe , the long voyage he has to make is an excellent preparative . The temporary absence of worldly scenes and employ- ments ...
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... rich men do . I considered him far above the reach of my pity . Those who live only for the world , and in the world , may be cast down by the frowns of adversity ; but a man like Roscoe is not to be overcome by the re- verses of ...
... rich men do . I considered him far above the reach of my pity . Those who live only for the world , and in the world , may be cast down by the frowns of adversity ; but a man like Roscoe is not to be overcome by the re- verses of ...
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... rich - you never knew the boundless treasures of excellence you possessed in that woman . " " Oh ! but my friend , if this first meeting at the cottage were over , I think I could then be comfort- able . But this is her first day of ...
... rich - you never knew the boundless treasures of excellence you possessed in that woman . " " Oh ! but my friend , if this first meeting at the cottage were over , I think I could then be comfort- able . But this is her first day of ...
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... rich in that legendary lore , so invaluable to true history . Whenever , therefore , he happened upon a genuine Dutch family , snugly shut up in its low - roofed farm- house , under a spreading sycamore , he looked upon it as a little ...
... rich in that legendary lore , so invaluable to true history . Whenever , therefore , he happened upon a genuine Dutch family , snugly shut up in its low - roofed farm- house , under a spreading sycamore , he looked upon it as a little ...
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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.