Six Selections from Irving's Sketch-book: With Notes, Questions, Etc. for Home and School UseGinn, 1894 - 119 من الصفحات |
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... B. SPRAGUE , PH.D. , HEAD MASTER OF THE GIRLS ' HIGH SCHOOL , BOSTON , MASS . ASSISTED BY M. E. SCATES . BOSTON , U.S.A .: GINN & COMPANY , PUBLISHERS . 1894 . HARVARD COLLEGE LI - AKY BY EXCHANGE FROM NEW YORK SIX SELECTIONS FROM.
... B. SPRAGUE , PH.D. , HEAD MASTER OF THE GIRLS ' HIGH SCHOOL , BOSTON , MASS . ASSISTED BY M. E. SCATES . BOSTON , U.S.A .: GINN & COMPANY , PUBLISHERS . 1894 . HARVARD COLLEGE LI - AKY BY EXCHANGE FROM NEW YORK SIX SELECTIONS FROM.
الصفحة ii
... HARVARD COLLEGE LI - AKY BY EXCHANGE FROM NEW YORK STATE LIBRARY FE 26 1932 COPYRIGHT , 1878 . BY HOMER B. SPRAGUE . PRESSWORK BY GINN & Co. , BOSTON , U.S.A. PREFACE . THE compilers of this book , desiring to Educ T 841.890.441.
... HARVARD COLLEGE LI - AKY BY EXCHANGE FROM NEW YORK STATE LIBRARY FE 26 1932 COPYRIGHT , 1878 . BY HOMER B. SPRAGUE . PRESSWORK BY GINN & Co. , BOSTON , U.S.A. PREFACE . THE compilers of this book , desiring to Educ T 841.890.441.
الصفحة vii
... York . 1800. Began to study law . 1802 . style . 1804 . 1806 . Contributions to The Morning Chronicle , signed Jonathan Old- Went to Europe . Returned to New York ; was admitted to the bar . 1807. Salmagundi , a humorous magazine ...
... York . 1800. Began to study law . 1802 . style . 1804 . 1806 . Contributions to The Morning Chronicle , signed Jonathan Old- Went to Europe . Returned to New York ; was admitted to the bar . 1807. Salmagundi , a humorous magazine ...
الصفحة viii
... York after seventeen years ' absence . Public dinner in New York to " our illustrious guest , thrice welcome to his native land . " 1832. The Alhambra . Irving lived in the old Moorish palace between two and three months " in a kind of ...
... York after seventeen years ' absence . Public dinner in New York to " our illustrious guest , thrice welcome to his native land . " 1832. The Alhambra . Irving lived in the old Moorish palace between two and three months " in a kind of ...
الصفحة ix
... York , the youngest of the eleven children of William and Sarah Irving was born . To the child was given the Chris- tian name of Washington . Before the time of Irving's first literary efforts the scholarly men of America , that is of ...
... York , the youngest of the eleven children of William and Sarah Irving was born . To the child was given the Chris- tian name of Washington . Before the time of Irving's first literary efforts the scholarly men of America , that is of ...
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الصفحة 107 - The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart, see, they bark at me ! " cried Bracebridge, laughing. At the sound of his voice, the bark was changed into a yelp of delight, and in a moment he was surrounded and almost overpowered by the caresses of the faithful animals.
الصفحة 83 - I have observed that he was a simple, good-natured man; he was moreover a kind neighbor, and an obedient henpecked husband. Indeed, to the latter circumstance might be owing that meekness of spirit which gained him such universal popularity ; for those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
الصفحة 88 - Wolf would wag his tail, look wistfully in his master's face, and if dogs can feel pity I verily believe he reciprocated the sentiment with all his heart.
الصفحة 32 - The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his person. He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weathercock perched upon his spindle neck to tell which way the wind blew.
الصفحة 100 - It was some time before he could get into the regular track of gossip, or could be made to comprehend the strange events that had taken place during his torpor. How that there had...
الصفحة 92 - ... robbed him of his gun. Wolf too had disappeared ; but he might have strayed away after a squirrel or partridge. He whistled after him and shouted his name, but all in vain; the echoes repeated his whistle and shout, but no dog was to be seen.
الصفحة 96 - Rip was equally at a loss to comprehend the question, when a knowing, self-important old gentleman in a sharp cocked hat made his way through the crowd, putting them to the right and left with his elbows as he passed, and planting himself before Van Winkle with one arm akimbo, the other resting on his cane, his keen eyes and sharp hat penetrating, as it were, into his very soul, demanded in an austere tone what brought him to the election with a gun on his shoulder and a mob at his heels, and whether...
الصفحة 117 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long : % And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
الصفحة 88 - From an opening between the trees he could overlook all the lower country for many a mile of rich woodland. He saw at a distance the lordly Hudson, far, far below him, moving on its silent but majestic course...
الصفحة 93 - At length he reached to where the ravine had opened through the cliffs to the amphitheatre ; but no traces of such opening remained. The rocks presented a high impenetrable wall, over which the torrent came tumbling in a sheet of feathery foam, and fell into a broad deep basin, black from the shadows of the surrounding forest.