Rip Van Winkle and Other SketchesRip Van Winkle -- The wife -- The broken heart -- Art of book-making -- The widow and her son -- Boar's Head Tavern, Eastcheap -- Mutability of literature -- Rural funerals -- The spectre bridegroom -- Westminster Abbey -- Stratford-on-Avon -- John Bull -- The legend of Sleepy Hollow. |
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الصفحة 38
Repined ! she has been nothing but sweetness and good humor . Indeed , she
seems in better spirits than I have ever known her ; she has been to me all love
and tenderness and comfort ! " " Admirable girl ! ” exclaimed I. “ You call yourself
...
Repined ! she has been nothing but sweetness and good humor . Indeed , she
seems in better spirits than I have ever known her ; she has been to me all love
and tenderness and comfort ! " " Admirable girl ! ” exclaimed I. “ You call yourself
...
الصفحة 39
I've set out a table under a beautiful tree behind the cottage ; and I've been
gathering some of the most delicious strawberries , for I know you are fond of
them - and we have such excellent creamand everything is so sweet and still
here .
I've set out a table under a beautiful tree behind the cottage ; and I've been
gathering some of the most delicious strawberries , for I know you are fond of
them - and we have such excellent creamand everything is so sweet and still
here .
الصفحة 43
Her rest is broken - the sweet refreshment of sleep is poisoned by melancholy
dreams " dry sorrow drinks her blood , ” until her enfeebled frame sinks under the
slightest external injury . Look for her , after a little while , and you find friendship
...
Her rest is broken - the sweet refreshment of sleep is poisoned by melancholy
dreams " dry sorrow drinks her blood , ” until her enfeebled frame sinks under the
slightest external injury . Look for her , after a little while , and you find friendship
...
الصفحة 59
Sweet day , so pure , so calm , so bright , The bridal of the earth and sky ! I cannot
lay claim to the merit of being a devout man ; but there are feelings that visit me in
a country church , amid the beautiful serenity of Nature , which I experience ...
Sweet day , so pure , so calm , so bright , The bridal of the earth and sky ! I cannot
lay claim to the merit of being a devout man ; but there are feelings that visit me in
a country church , amid the beautiful serenity of Nature , which I experience ...
الصفحة 64
said the good woman , “ he was such a comely lad , so sweet - tempered , so kind
to every one around him , so dutiful to his parents ! It did one's heart good to see
him of a Sunday , dressed out in his best so tall , so straight , so cheery ...
said the good woman , “ he was such a comely lad , so sweet - tempered , so kind
to every one around him , so dutiful to his parents ! It did one's heart good to see
him of a Sunday , dressed out in his best so tall , so straight , so cheery ...
ما يقوله الناس - كتابة مراجعة
لم نعثر على أي مراجعات في الأماكن المعتادة.
طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
affection ancient appearance authors Baron beautiful become bosom brought called carried castle church close continually Dame dark deep delight distant door doubt Dutch earth entered everything face fancied fear feelings flowers give grave hall hand haunted head hear heard heart Hollow hour Ichabod John keep kind lady light living looked ment mentioned mind monuments mountain nature neighborhood neighboring never night observed once passed poet poor present remains returned rich round scene seated seemed seen Shakespeare short side sleep sometimes soon sorrow soul sound spirit stands steps stood story sweet taken tell tender thought tion told tomb tree true turn village voice walls whole wild Winkle writers young
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الصفحة 23 - 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 16 - Their visages, too, were peculiar; one had a large head, broad face, and small piggish eyes; the face of another seemed to consist entirely of nose, and was surmounted by a white sugar-loaf hat, set off with a little red cock's tail. They all had beards, of various shapes and colors. There was one who seemed to be the commander.
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?" "Oh, Rip Van Winkle!" exclaimed two or three, "Oh, to be sure! that's Rip Van Winkle yonder, leaning against...
الصفحة 27 - Rip now resumed his old walks and habits ; he soon found many of his former cronies, though all rather the worse for the wear and tear of time...
الصفحة 26 - He recollected Rip at once, and corroborated his story in the most satisfactory manner. He assured the company that it was a fact, handed down from his ancestor, the historian, that the Kaatskill mountains had always been haunted by strange beings. That it was affirmed that the great Hendrick Hudson, the first discoverer of the river and country, kept a kind of vigil there every twenty years, with his crew of the Halfmoon ; being permitted in this way to revisit the scenes of his enterprise, and...
الصفحة 7 - When the weather is fair and settled, they are clothed in blue and purple, and print their bold outlines on the clear evening sky ; but sometimes, when the rest of the landscape is cloudless, they will gather a hood of...
الصفحة 25 - 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 48 - ... SHE IS FAR FROM THE LAND. SHE is far from the land where her young hero sleeps, And lovers are round her sighing ; But coldly she turns from their gaze, and weeps, For her heart in his grave is lying.
الصفحة 22 - Alas! gentlemen," cried Rip, somewhat dismayed, " I am a poor quiet man, a native of the place, and a loyal subject of the King, God bless him!" Here a general shout burst from the bystanders — "A tory! a tory! a spy! a refugee! hustle him ! away with him !" It was with great difficulty that the self-important man in the cocked hat restored order ; and having assumed a tenfold austerity of brow, demanded again of the unknown culprit, what he came there for, and whom he was seeking. The poor man...
الصفحة 12 - 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...
معلومات المراجع
| العنوان | Rip Van Winkle and Other Sketches Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood |
| المؤلف | Washington Irving |
| الناشر | Useful Knowledge Publishing Company, 1882 |
| أصلي من | مكتبة نيويورك العامة |
| الكتب ذات التنسيق الرقمي | 8 تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 2006 |
| عدد الصفحات | 240 من الصفحات |
| تصدير الاقتباس | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |