The Garden of Romance: Romantic Tales of All TimeErnest Rhys Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Company, Limited, 1897 - 238 من الصفحات |
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... began to conceive a very bad opinion of the barber , with- out knowing whether the young stranger had any just reason for speaking of him in such terms . We even went so far as to declare that we would not suffer at our table a man of ...
... began to conceive a very bad opinion of the barber , with- out knowing whether the young stranger had any just reason for speaking of him in such terms . We even went so far as to declare that we would not suffer at our table a man of ...
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... began his history in these words , having first turned his back towards the barber , lest he should see him : " My father , who lived in Bagdad , was of a rank to aspire to the highest offices of state , but he preferred leading a quiet ...
... began his history in these words , having first turned his back towards the barber , lest he should see him : " My father , who lived in Bagdad , was of a rank to aspire to the highest offices of state , but he preferred leading a quiet ...
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... began to despair of my life , when an old lady of their acquaintance , being informed of my illness , arrived ; she considered me with a great deal of attention , and after she had thoroughly examined me , she discovered , I know not by ...
... began to despair of my life , when an old lady of their acquaintance , being informed of my illness , arrived ; she considered me with a great deal of attention , and after she had thoroughly examined me , she discovered , I know not by ...
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... began another speech which lasted a full half - hour . Fatigued with hearing him , and vexed at finding the time pass without my getting forward , I knew not what more to say . ' No , indeed , ' at length I exclaimed , ' it is not ...
... began another speech which lasted a full half - hour . Fatigued with hearing him , and vexed at finding the time pass without my getting forward , I knew not what more to say . ' No , indeed , ' at length I exclaimed , ' it is not ...
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... began to shave me ; but he had not made four strokes with his razor when he stopped to say , ' Sir , you are hasty ; you should abstain from these gusts of passion , which only come from the devil . Besides which , I deserve that you ...
... began to shave me ; but he had not made four strokes with his razor when he stopped to say , ' Sir , you are hasty ; you should abstain from these gusts of passion , which only come from the devil . Besides which , I deserve that you ...
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الصفحة 161 - Alas! gentlemen," cried Rip, somewhat dismayed, "I am a poor quiet man, a native of the place, and a loyal subject of the king, God bless him!" Here a general shout burst from the bystanders — "A tory! a tory! a spy! a refugee! hustle him! away with him!
الصفحة 156 - On waking, he found himself on the green knoll whence he had first seen the old man of the glen. He rubbed his eyes. It was a bright, sunny morning. The birds were hopping and twittering among the bushes, and the eagle was wheeling aloft and breasting the pure mountain breeze. "Surely," thought Rip. "I have not slept here all night.
الصفحة 165 - Rip's daughter took him home to live with her; she had a snug, well-furnished house, and a stout cheery farmer for her 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 201 - ... with effort, connect its Arabesque expression with any idea of simple humanity. In the manner of my friend I was at once struck with an incoherence, an inconsistency; and I soon found this to arise from a series of feeble and futile struggles to overcome an habitual trepidancy, an excessive nervous agitation. For something of this nature I had indeed been prepared, no less by his letter than by reminiscences of certain boyish traits, and by conclusions deduced from his peculiar physical conformation...
الصفحة 165 - Rip now resumed his old walks and habits; he soon found many of his former cronies, though all rather the worse for the wear and tear of time, and preferred making friends among the rising generation, with whom he soon grew into great favor.
الصفحة 159 - It was with some difficulty that he found the way to his own house, which he approached with silent awe, expecting every moment to hear the shrill voice of Dame Van Winkle. He found the house gone to decay — the roof fallen in, the windows shattered, and the doors off the hinges. A half-starved dog that looked like Wolf was skulking about it.
الصفحة 147 - ... about their summits, which, in the last rays of the setting sun, will glow and light up like a crown of glory. At the foot of these fairy mountains...
الصفحة 157 - He now suspected that the grave roysterers of the mountain had put a trick upon him, and, having dosed him with liquor, had 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 167 - Hudson and his crew are at their game of ninepins ; and it is a common wish of all henpecked husbands in the neighbourhood, when life hangs heavy on their hands, that they might have a quieting draught out of Rip Van Winkle's flagon.
الصفحة 203 - I have indeed no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect, — in terror. In this unnerved — in this pitiable condition, I feel that the period will sooner or later arrive when I must abandon life and reason together, in some struggle with the grim phantasm, FEAR.