Selected Essays from The Sketch Book by Washington Irving: Prescribed by the Regents of the University of the State of New York for the Course in First Year EnglishHoughton, Mifflin, 1901 - 200 من الصفحات |
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... ment in life which resented foreign interference . There were thus two currents crossing each other : the common life which was narrowly American , and the cultivated taste which was English , or imitative of England . Irving's first ...
... ment in life which resented foreign interference . There were thus two currents crossing each other : the common life which was narrowly American , and the cultivated taste which was English , or imitative of England . Irving's first ...
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... ment of curiosity as to the future , which is not far removed from what some have regarded as an instinct of the human mind pointing to personal immortality . The name Van Winkle was happily chosen by Irving , but not invented by him ...
... ment of curiosity as to the future , which is not far removed from what some have regarded as an instinct of the human mind pointing to personal immortality . The name Van Winkle was happily chosen by Irving , but not invented by him ...
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... ment , 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 . His children , too , were as ragged and wild as if they belonged to ...
... ment , 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 . His children , too , were as ragged and wild as if they belonged to ...
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... ment Wolf entered the house his crest fell , his tail drooped to the ground , or curled between his legs , he sneaked about with a gallows air , casting many a side- long glance at Dame Van Winkle , and at the least flourish of a ...
... ment Wolf entered the house his crest fell , his tail drooped to the ground , or curled between his legs , he sneaked about with a gallows air , casting many a side- long glance at Dame Van Winkle , and at the least flourish of a ...
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... ment of a hat , like the cap of Mercury , and mounted on the back of a ragged , wild , half - broken colt , which he managed with a rope by way of halter . He came clattering up to the school - door with an invitation to Ichabod to ...
... ment of a hat , like the cap of Mercury , and mounted on the back of a ragged , wild , half - broken colt , which he managed with a rope by way of halter . He came clattering up to the school - door with an invitation to Ichabod to ...
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الصفحة 169 - Since ghost there is none to affright thee. Let not the dark thee cumber ; What though the moon does slumber? The stars of the night Will lend thee their light, Like tapers clear without number. Then, Julia, let me woo thee, Thus, thus to come unto me ; And when I shall meet Thy silvery feet, My soul I'll pour into thee.
الصفحة 90 - Barren, barren, barren ; beggars all, beggars all. Sir John : marry, good air.
الصفحة 7 - 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.
الصفحة 44 - ... pairing cosily in dishes, like snug married couples, with a decent competency of onion sauce. In the porkers he saw carved out the future sleek side of bacon and juicy relishing ham; not a turkey but he beheld daintily trussed up, with its gizzard under its wing, and, peradventure, a necklace of savory sausages...
الصفحة 31 - 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 71 - Ripper, and partly in mortification at having been suddenly dismissed by the heiress; that he had changed his quarters to a distant part of the country; had kept school and studied law at the same time; had been admitted to the bar; turned politician; electioneered; written for the newspapers; and finally had been made a Justice of the Ten Pound Court.
الصفحة 11 - was as much henpecked as his master ; for Dame Van Winkle regarded them as companions in idleness, and even looked upon Wolf with an evil eye, as the cause of his master's going so often astray. True it is, in all points of spirit befitting an honorable dc<*, he was as courageous an animal as ever scoured the woods — but what...
الصفحة 23 - Rip's heart died away at hearing of these sad changes in his home and friends, and finding himself thus alone in the world. Every answer puzzled him too, by treating of such enormous lapses of time, and of matters which he could not understand : war—Congress—Stony Point; he had no courage to ask after any more friends, but cried out in despair, " Does nobody here know Rip Van Winkle ?"
الصفحة 34 - To see him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield.
الصفحة 24 - 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?