The Works of Washington Irving: Sketch bookJenson Society, 1907 |
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الصفحة 13
... spirit which had ob- tained for him the well - merited appellation of the Prince of Booksellers . Thus , under the kind and cordial auspices of Sir Wal- ter Scott , I began my literary career in Europe ; and I feel that I am but ...
... spirit which had ob- tained for him the well - merited appellation of the Prince of Booksellers . Thus , under the kind and cordial auspices of Sir Wal- ter Scott , I began my literary career in Europe ; and I feel that I am but ...
الصفحة 32
... intelligent and public- spirited individuals . He has shown how much may be done for a place in hours of leisure by one master spirit , and how completely it can give its own impress to surrounding objects . 32 THE SKETCH - BOOK .
... intelligent and public- spirited individuals . He has shown how much may be done for a place in hours of leisure by one master spirit , and how completely it can give its own impress to surrounding objects . 32 THE SKETCH - BOOK .
الصفحة 38
... your sacred fellowship restore : When , freed from earth , unlimited its powers , Mind shall with mind direct communion hold , And kindred spirits meet to part no more . THE WIFE . The treasures of the deep are not 38 THE SKETCH - BOOK .
... your sacred fellowship restore : When , freed from earth , unlimited its powers , Mind shall with mind direct communion hold , And kindred spirits meet to part no more . THE WIFE . The treasures of the deep are not 38 THE SKETCH - BOOK .
الصفحة 39
... spirit of a man , and prostrate him in the dust , seem to call forth all the energies of the softer sex , and give such intrepidity and elevation to their character , that at times it approaches to sublimity . Nothing can be more ...
... spirit of a man , and prostrate him in the dust , seem to call forth all the energies of the softer sex , and give such intrepidity and elevation to their character , that at times it approaches to sublimity . Nothing can be more ...
الصفحة 40
... spirits are soothed and relieved by domestic endearments , and his self - respect kept alive by finding , that though all abroad is darkness and humil- iation , yet there is still a little world of love at home , of which he is the ...
... spirits are soothed and relieved by domestic endearments , and his self - respect kept alive by finding , that though all abroad is darkness and humil- iation , yet there is still a little world of love at home , of which he is the ...
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الصفحة 203 - With fairest flowers, Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave : thou shalt not lack The flower that's like thy face, pale primrose ; nor The azured hare-bell, like thy veins ; no, nor The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Out-sweeten'd not thy breath...
الصفحة 77 - 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 201 - Say I died true. My love was false, but I was firm, From my hour of birth, Upon my buried body lie Lightly, gentle earth.
الصفحة 51 - Every change of season, every change of weather, indeed, every hour of the day, produces some change in the magical hues and shapes of these mountains, and they are regarded by all the good wives, far and near, as perfect barometers.
الصفحة 72 - To make a long story short, the company broke up and returned to the more important concerns of the election. Rip's daughter took him home to live with her; she had a snug, wellfurnished house, and a stout, cheery farmer for a husband, whom Rip recollected for one of the urchins that used to climb upon his back. As to Rip's son and heir, who was the ditto of himself, seen leaning against the tree, he was employed to work on the farm; but evinced an hereditary disposition to attend to anything else...
الصفحة 280 - Come, bring with a noise, My merry, merry boys, The Christmas log to the firing ; While my good dame, she Bids ye all be free, And drink to your hearts
الصفحة 60 - ... clambered up a narrow gully, apparently the dry bed of a mountain torrent. As they ascended, Rip every now and then heard long rolling peals, like distant thunder, that seemed to issue out of a deep ravine or rather cleft between lofty rocks, toward which their rugged path conducted. He paused for an instant, but supposing it to be the muttering of one of those transient thundershowers which often take place in mountain heights, he proceeded.
الصفحة 57 - ... vapor curl about his nose, would gravely nod his head in token of perfect approbation. From even this strong-hold the unlucky Rip was at length routed by his termagant wife, who would suddenly break in upon the tranquillity of the assemblage and call the members all to naught ; nor was that august personage, Nicholas Vedder himself, sacred from the daring tongue of this terrible virago, who charged him outright with encouraging her husband in habits of idleness.
الصفحة 510 - In the dead hush of midnight he could even hear the barking of the watch-dog from the opposite shore of the Hudson, but it was so vague and faint as only to give an idea of his distance from this faithful companion of man. Now and then, too, the long-drawn crowing of a cock, accidentally awakened, would sound far, far off, from some farmhouse away among the hills ; but it was like a dreaming sound in his ear. No signs of life occurred near him, but occasionally the melancholy chirp of a cricket,...
الصفحة 64 - ... he got down into the glen : he found the gully up which he and his companion had ascended the preceding evening; but to his astonishment a mountain stream was now foaming down it, leaping from rock to rock, and filling the glen with babbling murmurs.