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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... Story of Bunker Hill Battle , etc. * ** 7 , 8 , 9. Hawthorne's Grandfather's Chair . In three parts . ‡‡ 10. Hawthorne's Biographical Stories . With Questions . *** 11. Longfellow's Children's Hour , and Other Poems . ** 12. Studies in ...
... Story of Bunker Hill Battle , etc. * ** 7 , 8 , 9. Hawthorne's Grandfather's Chair . In three parts . ‡‡ 10. Hawthorne's Biographical Stories . With Questions . *** 11. Longfellow's Children's Hour , and Other Poems . ** 12. Studies in ...
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... Story of Bunker Hill Battle , etc. * ** 7 , 8 , 9. Hawthorne's Grandfather's Chair . In three parts . ‡‡ 10. Hawthorne's Biographical Stories . With Questions . *** 11. Longfellow's Children's Hour , and Other Poems . ** 12. Studies in ...
... Story of Bunker Hill Battle , etc. * ** 7 , 8 , 9. Hawthorne's Grandfather's Chair . In three parts . ‡‡ 10. Hawthorne's Biographical Stories . With Questions . *** 11. Longfellow's Children's Hour , and Other Poems . ** 12. Studies in ...
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... stories , and sketches which appeared in the separate numbers of The Sketch Book , in Bracebridge Hall , and in Tales of a Traveller . They were chiefly drawn from material accumulated abroad , but an occasional American subject was ...
... stories , and sketches which appeared in the separate numbers of The Sketch Book , in Bracebridge Hall , and in Tales of a Traveller . They were chiefly drawn from material accumulated abroad , but an occasional American subject was ...
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... American Men of Letters Series . Washington Irving was born in New York , April 3 , 1783 , and died at Sunnyside on the Hudson , November 28 , 1859 . INTRODUCTION TO RIP VAN WINKLE . THE story of Rip 4 WASHINGTON IRVING .
... American Men of Letters Series . Washington Irving was born in New York , April 3 , 1783 , and died at Sunnyside on the Hudson , November 28 , 1859 . INTRODUCTION TO RIP VAN WINKLE . THE story of Rip 4 WASHINGTON IRVING .
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... story in the Kaatskills , but he drew upon his imagination and the reports of others for the scen- ery , not visiting the spot until 1833. The story is not ab- solutely new ; the fairy tale of The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood has the ...
... story in the Kaatskills , but he drew upon his imagination and the reports of others for the scen- ery , not visiting the spot until 1833. The story is not ab- solutely new ; the fairy tale of The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood has the ...
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adjective adverb adverb clause ancient antiquated authors Avon Baltus Van Tassel beautiful born bosom Bracebridge Brom Bones called Christmas church clause companion cottage countenance Dame Van Winkle dance deep delight door Dutch England English Falstaff fancy favorite festival fire Fort Christina goblin hall hand haunted Hawthorne's head heard heart horse Hudson hung Ichabod Ichabod Crane Irving Irving's John justice kind Knickerbocker land literature Longfellow's looked Lucy mansion Master Simon ment merry mind morning mountain neighborhood neighboring never night noun old English old gentleman passed pluperfect Poems poet poor present preterite Rip Van Winkle round scene secondary tense seemed Shakspeare Shakspeare's side Sketch Sleepy Hollow sometimes Song of Hiawatha sound spirit squire steed story Stratford Thomas Lucy thought trees turn verb village voyage Washington Irving Whittier's wild window witches writings
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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?