The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, المجلد 1Carey, 1835 |
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... tell , when he sets forth to wander , whither he may be driven by the uncertain cur- rents of existence ; or when he may return ; or whether it may ever be his lot to revisit the scenes of his child- hood ? I said that at sea all is ...
... tell , when he sets forth to wander , whither he may be driven by the uncertain cur- rents of existence ; or when he may return ; or whether it may ever be his lot to revisit the scenes of his child- hood ? I said that at sea all is ...
الصفحة 10
... tell the story of their end . What sighs have been wafted after that ship ! what prayers offered up at the deserted fireside of home ! How often has the mistress , the wife , the mother , pored over the daily news , to catch some casual ...
... tell the story of their end . What sighs have been wafted after that ship ! what prayers offered up at the deserted fireside of home ! How often has the mistress , the wife , the mother , pored over the daily news , to catch some casual ...
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... telling her that her husband is a beg gar ! that she is to forego all the elegancies of life - all the pleasures of society - to shrink with me into indigence and obscurity ! To tell her that I have dragged her down from the sphere in ...
... telling her that her husband is a beg gar ! that she is to forego all the elegancies of life - all the pleasures of society - to shrink with me into indigence and obscurity ! To tell her that I have dragged her down from the sphere in ...
الصفحة 29
... windows and gable fronts , surmounted with weather- cocks . In that same village , and in one of these very houses ** 2 ( which , to tell the precise truth , RIP VAN WINKLE . A POSTHUMOUS WRITING OF DIEDRICH KNICKER BOCKER. ...
... windows and gable fronts , surmounted with weather- cocks . In that same village , and in one of these very houses ** 2 ( which , to tell the precise truth , RIP VAN WINKLE . A POSTHUMOUS WRITING OF DIEDRICH KNICKER BOCKER. ...
الصفحة 30
Washington Irving. 2 ( which , to tell the precise truth , was sadly time - worn and weather - beaten ) , there lived many years since , while the country was yet a province of Great Britain , a simple goodnatured fellow , of the name of ...
Washington Irving. 2 ( which , to tell the precise truth , was sadly time - worn and weather - beaten ) , there lived many years since , while the country was yet a province of Great Britain , a simple goodnatured fellow , of the name of ...
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abbey ancient antiquity aunts baron beauty Boar's Head bosom bustle castle chamber charm Chaucer Christmas church cottage countenance crowd Dame Van Winkle deep delight distant door earth Eastcheap elegant England English enjoyment Falstaff fancy feeling fire of London flowers fond friends funeral gaze George Somers Gersau gloomy grave green hand heard heart hour humble Jack Straw kind lady living look Maid's Tragedy meditation melancholy mind mingled monument mouldering mountain nature neighbouring never noble Odenwald once passed pleasure poem poet poetical poor pride quarto quiet racter Rip Van Winkle Robert Preston round rural sawtrie scene seat seemed sepulchre silent solemn sorrow soul spectre spirit story strange stranger sweet tavern tender thing thought tion tomb tower travels trees turn verger village wandering Wat Tyler whole wife wild William Walworth window writers Wurtzburg young
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الصفحة 43 - 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 41 - Nicholas Vedder?" There was a silence for a little while, when an old man replied, in a thin, piping voice, "Nicholas Vedder! why, he is dead and gone these eighteen years! There was a wooden tombstone in the churchyard that used to tell all about him, but that's rotten and gone too.
الصفحة 34 - ... impending cliffs, and scarcely lighted by the reflected rays of the setting sun. For some time Rip 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! Rip Van Winkle!
الصفحة 173 - 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 131 - Lay a garland on my hearse, Of the dismal yew; Maidens, willow branches bear; 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 44 - Half-moon, being permitted in this way to revisit the scenes of his enterprise, and keep a guardian eye upon the river, and the great city called by his name ; that his father had once seen them in their old Dutch dresses playing at ninepins in a hollow of the mountain ; and that he himself had heard, one summer afternoon, the sound of their balls, like distant peals of thunder.
الصفحة 136 - If thou art a child, and hast ever added a sorrow to the soul, or a furrow to the silvered brow of an affectionate parent; if thou art a husband, and hast ever caused the fond bosom that ventured its whole happiness in thy arms to doubt one moment of thy kindness or thy truth...
الصفحة 36 - What seemed particularly odd to Rip was, that though these folks were evidently amusing themselves, yet they maintained the gravest faces, the most mysterious silence, and were, withal, the most melancholy party of pleasure he had ever witnessed. Nothing interrupted the stillness of the scene but the noise of the balls, which, whenever they were rolled, echoed along the mountains like rumbling peals of thunder.
الصفحة 33 - When anything that was read or related displeased him, he was observed to smoke his pipe vehemently, and to send forth short, frequent, and angry puffs ; but when pleased, he would...
الصفحة 40 - Instead of the great tree that used to shelter the quiet little Dutch inn of yore, there now was reared a tall naked pole, with something on the top that looked like a red nightcap, and from it was fluttering a flag, on which was a singular assemblage of stars and stripes — all this was strange and incomprehensible.