The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, المجلد 2J. Murray, 1822 - 393 من الصفحات |
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... ON - AVON 145 TRAITS OF INDIAN CHARACTER 185 PHILIP OF POKANOKET 211 JOHN BULL 247 THE PRIDE Of the VillaGE . 273 THE ANGLER THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW L'ENVOY € 295 € 317 • . 389 CHRISTMAS . But is old , old , good old.
... ON - AVON 145 TRAITS OF INDIAN CHARACTER 185 PHILIP OF POKANOKET 211 JOHN BULL 247 THE PRIDE Of the VillaGE . 273 THE ANGLER THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW L'ENVOY € 295 € 317 • . 389 CHRISTMAS . But is old , old , good old.
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... village housewives , who look upon him as a man of great trust and depen- dence ; and he seems to have a good under- standing with every bright - eyed country lass . The moment he arrives where the horses are to be changed , he throws ...
... village housewives , who look upon him as a man of great trust and depen- dence ; and he seems to have a good under- standing with every bright - eyed country lass . The moment he arrives where the horses are to be changed , he throws ...
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... village , every one runs to the window , and you have glances on every side of fresh country faces and blooming giggling girls . At the corners are assembled juntos of village idlers and wise men , who take their stations there for the ...
... village , every one runs to the window , and you have glances on every side of fresh country faces and blooming giggling girls . At the corners are assembled juntos of village idlers and wise men , who take their stations there for the ...
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... villages ; the grocers , but- chers , and fruiterers ' shops were thronged with customers . The housewives were stirring brisk ly about , putting their dwellings in order ; and the glossy branches of holly , with their bright red ...
... villages ; the grocers , but- chers , and fruiterers ' shops were thronged with customers . The housewives were stirring brisk ly about , putting their dwellings in order ; and the glossy branches of holly , with their bright red ...
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... village where I had determined to pass the night . As we drove into the great gateway of the inn , I saw on one side the light of a rousing kitchen fire beaming through a window . I entered and admired , for the hundredth time , that ...
... village where I had determined to pass the night . As we drove into the great gateway of the inn , I saw on one side the light of a rousing kitchen fire beaming through a window . I entered and admired , for the hundredth time , that ...
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ancient Avon Baltus Van Tassel beautiful bosom Brom Bones brook Canonchet Charlecot charm cheer Christmas church churchyard companion cudgel customs dance dark delight dish door face fancied favourite fearful feelings fellow festivity fire forest Frank Bracebridge gathered ghost goblin grave green hall hand haunted head heard heart holyday honour horse humour hung Ichabod Ichabod Crane Indian Izaak Walton John Bull Justice Shallow kind lady Lambs land Little Britain look Lord mansion Master Simon merry mind mingled Narrhagansets nature neighbourhood neighbours ness night old English old gentleman parson passed Philip POKANOKET Poor Robin's Almanack pride quiet racter renegado round rustic Sachem savage scene seemed Shakspeare side Sleepy Hollow sometimes song sound spirit Squire steed story Stratford stream thee thing Thomas Lucy thought tion trees tribes turn village Wampanoags wandering warrior Wassail whole wild window worthy young
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الصفحة 12 - 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 329 - With these he lived successively a week at a time; thus going the rounds of the neighbourhood, with all his worldly effects tied up in a cotton handkerchief. That all this might not be too onerous on the purses of his rustic patrons, who are apt to consider the costs of schooling a grievous burden, and schoolmasters as mere drones, he had various ways of rendering himself both useful and agreeable. He assisted the farmers occasionally in the lighter...
الصفحة 353 - All was now bustle and hubbub in the late quiet school-room. The scholars were hurried through their lessons, without stopping at trifles ; those who were nimble, skipped over half with impunity, and those who were tardy, had a smart application now and then in the rear, to quicken their speed, or help them over a tall word.
الصفحة 341 - Nay, his busy fancy already realized his hopes, and presented to him the blooming Katrina, with a whole family of children, mounted on the top of a waggon loaded with household trumpery, with pots and kettles dangling beneath ; and he beheld himself bestriding a pacing mare, with a colt at her heels, setting out for Kentucky, Tennessee, or the Lord knows where. When he entered the house the conquest of his heart was complete. It was one of those spacious farm-houses, with high-ridged, but lowly-sloping...
الصفحة 370 - What passed at this interview I will not pretend to say, for in fact I do not know. Something, however, I fear me, must have gone wrong, for he certainly sallied forth, after no very great interval, with an air quite desolate and chapfallen.
الصفحة 324 - It is remarkable that the visionary propensity •I have mentioned is not confined to the native Y 2 inhabitants of the valley, but is unconsciously imbibed by every one who resides there for a time. However wide awake they may have been before they entered that sleepy region, they are sure, in a little time, to inhale the witching influence of the air, and begin to grow imaginative — to dream dreams, and see apparitions.
الصفحة 158 - ... extremely awful. If they are indeed his own, they show that solicitude about the quiet of the grave which seems natural to fine sensibilities and thoughtful minds. " Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbeare To dig the dust enclosed here.
الصفحة 361 - And then there were apple pies and peach pies and pumpkin pies; besides slices of ham and smoked beef; and moreover delectable dishes of preserved plums, and peaches, and pears, and quinces; not to mention broiled shad and roasted chickens; together with bowls of milk and cream, all mingled higgledypiggledy, pretty much as I have enumerated them, with the motherly teapot sending up its clouds of vapor from the midst — Heaven bless the mark!
الصفحة 356 - ... screaming and chattering, nodding and bobbing and bowing, and pretending to be on good terms with every songster of the grove. As Ichabod jogged slowly on his way, his eye, ever open to every symptom of culinary abundance, ranged with delight over the treasures of jolly autumn.
الصفحة 356 - The forests had put on their sober brown and yellow, while some trees of the tenderer kind had been nipped by the frosts into brilliant dyes of orange, purple, and scarlet. Streaming files of wild ducks began to make their appearance high in the air ; the bark of the squirrel might be heard from the groves of beech and hickory nuts, and the pensive whistle of the quail at intervals from the neighboring stubble-field.