The Sketch-bookG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1848 |
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... flowers tastefully disposed about the door , and on the grassplot in front . A small wicket gate opened upon a footpath that wound through some shrubbery to the door . Just as we approached , we heard the sound of music -Leslie grasped ...
... flowers tastefully disposed about the door , and on the grassplot in front . A small wicket gate opened upon a footpath that wound through some shrubbery to the door . Just as we approached , we heard the sound of music -Leslie grasped ...
الصفحة 64
... flowering vines which clamber about it , and the wild flowers which abound in its neighborhood , is known by the name of the Garden Rock . Near the foot of it is a small lake , the haunt of the solitary bittern , with water - snakes ...
... flowering vines which clamber about it , and the wild flowers which abound in its neighborhood , is known by the name of the Garden Rock . Near the foot of it is a small lake , the haunt of the solitary bittern , with water - snakes ...
الصفحة 78
... flowers ; every spot capable of vegetation has its grass- plot and flower - bed ; and every square its mimic park , laid out with picturesque taste , and gleaming with refreshing verdure . Those who see the Englishman only in town are ...
... flowers ; every spot capable of vegetation has its grass- plot and flower - bed ; and every square its mimic park , laid out with picturesque taste , and gleaming with refreshing verdure . Those who see the Englishman only in town are ...
الصفحة 80
... hedge , the grassplot before the door , the little flower - bed bordered with snug box , the woodbine trained up against the wall , and hanging its blossoms about the lattice , the pot of flowers in the window , 80 THE SKETCH BOOK .
... hedge , the grassplot before the door , the little flower - bed bordered with snug box , the woodbine trained up against the wall , and hanging its blossoms about the lattice , the pot of flowers in the window , 80 THE SKETCH BOOK .
الصفحة 81
Washington Irving. lattice , the pot of flowers in the window , the holly , providently planted about the house , to cheat winter of its dreariness , and to throw in a semblance of green summer to cheer the fireside : all these bespeak ...
Washington Irving. lattice , the pot of flowers in the window , the holly , providently planted about the house , to cheat winter of its dreariness , and to throw in a semblance of green summer to cheer the fireside : all these bespeak ...
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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.