The Sketch-bookG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1848 |
من داخل الكتاب
النتائج 1-5 من 24
الصفحة 25
... considered him far above the reach of my pity . Those who live only for the world , and in the world , may be cast down by the frowns of adversity ; but a man like Roscoe is not to be overcome by the reverses of fortune . do but drive ...
... considered him far above the reach of my pity . Those who live only for the world , and in the world , may be cast down by the frowns of adversity ; but a man like Roscoe is not to be overcome by the reverses of fortune . do but drive ...
الصفحة 44
... - suffering . A termagant wife may , therefore , in some respects , be considered a tolerable blessing ; and if so , Rip Van Winkle was thrice blessed . Certain it is , that he was a great favorite 44 THE SKETCH BOOK .
... - suffering . A termagant wife may , therefore , in some respects , be considered a tolerable blessing ; and if so , Rip Van Winkle was thrice blessed . Certain it is , that he was a great favorite 44 THE SKETCH BOOK .
الصفحة 63
... considered them the abode of spirits , who influenced the weather , spreading sunshine or clouds over the landscape , and sending good or bad hunting seasons . They were ruled by an old squaw spirit , said to be their mother . She dwelt ...
... considered them the abode of spirits , who influenced the weather , spreading sunshine or clouds over the landscape , and sending good or bad hunting seasons . They were ruled by an old squaw spirit , said to be their mother . She dwelt ...
الصفحة 109
... considered a transcript of the royal bard's true feelings , and the story of his real loves and fortunes . It is not often that sove- reigns write poetry , or that poets deal in fact . It is gratifying to the pride of a common man , to ...
... considered a transcript of the royal bard's true feelings , and the story of his real loves and fortunes . It is not often that sove- reigns write poetry , or that poets deal in fact . It is gratifying to the pride of a common man , to ...
الصفحة 127
... air of supercilious assumption which is never seen in the true gentleman . I have been rather minute in drawing the pictures of these two families , because I considered them specimens of what THE COUNTRY CHURCH . 127.
... air of supercilious assumption which is never seen in the true gentleman . I have been rather minute in drawing the pictures of these two families , because I considered them specimens of what THE COUNTRY CHURCH . 127.
طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
abbey ancient antiquity baron beautiful Boar's Head bosom Bracebridge Canonchet castle character charm Christmas church church-yard cottage countenance custom Dame dark delight distant door earth Eastcheap Edward the Confessor England English Falstaff fancy favorite feelings flowers gathered goblin grave green hall hand heard heart horse hung Ichabod Ichabod Crane Indian John Bull kind lady Little Britain living look mansion Master Simon melancholy merry mind mingled monuments morning mountain Narragansets nature neighborhood neighboring never night noble observed old English old gentleman once passed Philip poet poor pride quiet Rip Van Winkle round rural scene seated seemed Shakspeare side sleep Sleepy Hollow sometimes song sorrow soul sound spectre spirit squire story sweet tender thing thought tion tomb trees turn village wandering Wassail Wat Tyler Westminster Abbey whole wild William Walworth window worthy young
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 58 - Nicholas Vedder ^ why, he is dead and gone these eighteen years ! There was a wooden tombstone in the church-yard that used to tell all about him, but that's rotten and gone too.
الصفحة 50 - ... still more surprised at the singularity of the stranger's appearance. He was a short, square-built old fellow, with thick bushy hair, and a grizzled beard. His dress was of the antique Dutch fashion: a cloth jerkin strapped round the waist, several...
الصفحة 47 - Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as years of matrimony rolled on; a tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
الصفحة 43 - 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 - In that same village, and in one of these very houses, (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 good-natured fellow, of the name of Rip Van Winkle. He was a descendant of the Van Winkles who figured so gallantly in the chivalrous days of Peter Stuyvesant, and accompanied him to the siege of fort Christina.
الصفحة 444 - The sun gradually wheeled his broad disk down into the west The wide bosom of the Tappan Zee lay motionless and glassy, excepting that here and there a gentle undulation waved and prolonged the blue shadow of the distant mountain. A few amber clouds floated in the sky, without a breath of air to move them. The horizon was of a fine golden tint, changing gradually into a pure apple green, and from that into the deep blue of the mid-heaven. A slanting ray lingered on the woody crests of the precipices...
الصفحة 52 - ... 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 435 - ... mouth ; the pigeons were snugly put to bed in a comfortable pie, and tucked in with a coverlet of crust ; the geese were swimming in their own gravy ; and the ducks 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 47 - Rip's sole domestic adherent was his dog Wolf, who 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.
الصفحة 434 - Hard by the farm-house was a vast barn, that might have served for a church, every window and crevice of which seemed bursting forth with the treasures of the farm.