Ten Selections from The Sketch-bookAmerican book Company, 1892 - 149 من الصفحات |
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... travels , and made many tours of discovery into foreign parts and unknown regions of my native city , to the frequent alarm of my parents , and the emolument of the town - crier . As I grew into boyhood , I extended the range of my ...
... travels , and made many tours of discovery into foreign parts and unknown regions of my native city , to the frequent alarm of my parents , and the emolument of the town - crier . As I grew into boyhood , I extended the range of my ...
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... travels , and made many tours of discovery into foreign parts and unknown regions of my native city , to the frequent alarm of my parents , and the emolument of the town - crier . I grew into boyhood , I extended the range of my ...
... travels , and made many tours of discovery into foreign parts and unknown regions of my native city , to the frequent alarm of my parents , and the emolument of the town - crier . I grew into boyhood , I extended the range of my ...
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... travels became my passion ; and , in devouring their contents , I neglected the regular exercises of the school . How wistfully would I wander about the pier - heads in fine weather , and watch the parting ships , bound to distant ...
... travels became my passion ; and , in devouring their contents , I neglected the regular exercises of the school . How wistfully would I wander about the pier - heads in fine weather , and watch the parting ships , bound to distant ...
الصفحة 15
... traveler who would make a book . I fear I shall give equal disappointment with an unlucky ing the bent of his vagrant inclination , had sketched landscape painter , who had traveled on the Continent , but , follow- THE SKETCH - BOOK . 15.
... traveler who would make a book . I fear I shall give equal disappointment with an unlucky ing the bent of his vagrant inclination , had sketched landscape painter , who had traveled on the Continent , but , follow- THE SKETCH - BOOK . 15.
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... traveling by land there is a continuity of scene , and a con- nected succession of persons and incidents , that carry on the story of life , and lessen the effect of absence and separation . We drag , it is true , " a lengthening chain ...
... traveling by land there is a continuity of scene , and a con- nected succession of persons and incidents , that carry on the story of life , and lessen the effect of absence and separation . We drag , it is true , " a lengthening chain ...
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الصفحة 78 - 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. 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 62 - If ever I should wish for a retreat whither I might steal from the world and its distractions and dream quietly away the remnant of a troubled life, I know of none more promising than this little valley.
الصفحة 83 - ... of excellent Hollands. He was naturally a thirsty soul, and was soon tempted to repeat the draught. One taste provoked another, and he reiterated his visits to the flagon so often that at length his senses were overpowered, his eyes swam in his head, his head gradually declined, and he fell into a deep sleep.
الصفحة 83 - 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.
الصفحة 87 - ... 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 but his business.
الصفحة 70 - It was, as I have said, a fine autumnal day ; the sky was clear and serene, and nature wore that rich and golden livery which we always associate with the idea of abundance. 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...
الصفحة 40 - Just in this nick the cook knock'd thrice, And all the waiters in a trice His summons did obey ; Each serving man, with dish in hand. March'd boldly up, like our...
الصفحة 79 - ... those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home. Their tempers, doubtless, are rendered pliant and malleable in the fiery furnace of domestic tribulation, and a curtain lecture is worth all the sermons in the world for teaching the virtues of patience and long-suffering.
الصفحة 20 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
الصفحة 82 - There was one who seemed to be the commander. He was a stout old gentleman, with a weather-beaten countenance; he wore a laced doublet, broad belt and hanger, high-crowned hat and feather, red stockings, and high-heeled shoes, with roses in them. The whole group reminded Rip of the figures in an old Flemish painting, in the parlor of Dominie Van Shaick, the village parson, and which had been brought over from Holland at the time of the settlement.