The Sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. [pseud.], المجلد 1Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1836 |
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... tion . Should he be encouraged to proceed , much time may elapse between the appear- ance of his numbers ; and their size will de- pend on the materials he may have on hand . His writings will partake of the fluctuations of his own ...
... tion . Should he be encouraged to proceed , much time may elapse between the appear- ance of his numbers ; and their size will de- pend on the materials he may have on hand . His writings will partake of the fluctuations of his own ...
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... tion , he will have to trust to others to cor- rect the frequent errors of the press . Should his writings , however , with all their imper- fections , be well received , he cannot conceal that it would be a source of the purest grati ...
... tion , he will have to trust to others to cor- rect the frequent errors of the press . Should his writings , however , with all their imper- fections , be well received , he cannot conceal that it would be a source of the purest grati ...
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... tion for on no country have the charms of nature been more prodigally lavished . Her mighty lakes , like oceans of liquid silver ; her mountains , with their bright aerial tints ; her valleys , teeming with wild fertility ; her ...
... tion for on no country have the charms of nature been more prodigally lavished . Her mighty lakes , like oceans of liquid silver ; her mountains , with their bright aerial tints ; her valleys , teeming with wild fertility ; her ...
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... tion by which , as in Europe , the features and popu- lation of one country blend almost imperceptibly with those of another . From the moment you lose sight of the land you have left , all is vacancy , until you step on the opposite ...
... tion by which , as in Europe , the features and popu- lation of one country blend almost imperceptibly with those of another . From the moment you lose sight of the land you have left , all is vacancy , until you step on the opposite ...
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... tion . How interesting this fragment of a world , hastening to rejoin the great mass of existence ! What a glorious monument of human invention ; that has thus triumphed over wind and wave ; has brought the ends of the world into ...
... tion . How interesting this fragment of a world , hastening to rejoin the great mass of existence ! What a glorious monument of human invention ; that has thus triumphed over wind and wave ; has brought the ends of the world into ...
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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.