Knickerbocker Stories from the Old Dutch Days of New YorkNewson, 1897 - 140 من الصفحات |
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... STUYVESANT'S VOYAGE UP THE HUDSON III . WOLFERT'S ROOST • 29 44 • 51 58 IV . THE STORM - SHIP 77 V. RIP VAN WINKLE 85 VI . THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW 105 • · INTRODUCTION . I. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH . WASHINGTON IRVING is famous.
... STUYVESANT'S VOYAGE UP THE HUDSON III . WOLFERT'S ROOST • 29 44 • 51 58 IV . THE STORM - SHIP 77 V. RIP VAN WINKLE 85 VI . THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW 105 • · INTRODUCTION . I. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH . WASHINGTON IRVING is famous.
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... ship , in learning , in art , in commerce , in war , and in all these directions at once , the Dutch of the seventeenth century will stand a comparison with any nation of Europe of their time . It is idle to imagine that such men were ...
... ship , in learning , in art , in commerce , in war , and in all these directions at once , the Dutch of the seventeenth century will stand a comparison with any nation of Europe of their time . It is idle to imagine that such men were ...
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... ships did a great part of the carrying trade of the other European countries . They were also extending their commercial power by colonization . In 1602 was formed the East India Company , which traded with the countries of the far East ...
... ships did a great part of the carrying trade of the other European countries . They were also extending their commercial power by colonization . In 1602 was formed the East India Company , which traded with the countries of the far East ...
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... ships of war appeared before New Amsterdam , and joining the New England- ers who had settled in Long Island , demanded its surrender . Stuyvesant had hardly any soldiers , but he would have defended the town had he been able . As it ...
... ships of war appeared before New Amsterdam , and joining the New England- ers who had settled in Long Island , demanded its surrender . Stuyvesant had hardly any soldiers , but he would have defended the town had he been able . As it ...
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... Ship . Toward the end of " Bracebridge Hall " Irving introduced a story from the MSS . of Diedrich Knickerbocker , " called " The Haunted House . " The tale narrated the adventures of Dolph Heyliger , who lived in New York in the old ...
... Ship . Toward the end of " Bracebridge Hall " Irving introduced a story from the MSS . of Diedrich Knickerbocker , " called " The Haunted House . " The tale narrated the adventures of Dolph Heyliger , who lived in New York in the old ...
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الصفحة 101 - Rip Van Winkle yonder, leaning against the tree." 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. He doubted his own identity, and whether he was himself or another man. In the midst of his bewilderment, the man in the cocked hat demanded who he was, and what was his name. "God knows!
الصفحة 98 - He recognized on the sign, however, the ruby face of King George, under which he had smoked so many a peaceful pipe, but even this was singularly metamorphosed. The red coat was changed for one of blue and buff, a sword was held in the hand instead of a sceptre, the head was decorated with a cocked hat, and underneath was painted in large characters, GENERAL WASHINGTON.
الصفحة 99 - In place of these, a lean biliouslooking fellow, with his pockets full of handbills, was haranguing vehemently about rights of citizens — election — members of Congress — liberty — Bunker's hill — heroes of seventy-six — and other words which were a perfect Babylonish jargon to the bewildered Van Winkle.
الصفحة 101 - The name of the child, the air of the mother, the tone of her voice, all awakened a train of recollections in his mind. "What is your name, my good woman?
الصفحة 101 - ... the cocked hat retired with some precipitation. At this critical moment a fresh comely woman pressed through the throng to get a peep at the gray-bearded man. She had a chubby child in her arms, which, frightened at his looks, began to cry. "Hush, Rip," cried she, "hush, you little fool; the old man won't hurt you.
الصفحة 92 - Eip lay musing on this scene; evening was gradually advancing, the mountains began to throw their long blue shadows over the valleys; he saw that it would be dark long before he could reach the village, and he heaved a heavy sigh when he thought of encountering the terrors of Dame Van Winkle. As he was about to descend, he heard a voice from a distance, hallooing, "Rip Van Winkle!
الصفحة 117 - It was one of those spacious farmhouses with high-ridged but lowly-sloping roofs, built in the style handed down from the first Dutch settlers, the low projecting eaves forming a piazza along the front capable of being closed up in bad weather.
الصفحة 105 - A pleasing land of drowsy -head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye ; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky...
الصفحة 89 - ... of him. His fences were continually falling to pieces ; his cow would either go astray, or get among the cabbages; weeds were sure to grow quicker in his fields than anywhere else ; the rain always made a point of setting in just as he had some out-door work to do ; so that though his patrimonial estate had dwindled away under his management, acre by acre, until there was little more left than a mere patch of Indian corn and potatoes, yet it was the worst conditioned farm in the neighborhood.
الصفحة 99 - ... what brought him to the election with a gun on his shoulder, and a mob at his heels, and whether he meant to breed a riot in the village?