The sketch bookGeorge P. Putnam, 1849 |
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... charms of nature been more prodigally lavished . Her mighty lakes , like oceans of liquid silver ; her mountains , with their bright aerial tints ; her valleys , teeming with wild fertility ; her tremendous cataracts , thundering in ...
... charms of nature been more prodigally lavished . Her mighty lakes , like oceans of liquid silver ; her mountains , with their bright aerial tints ; her valleys , teeming with wild fertility ; her tremendous cataracts , thundering in ...
الصفحة 79
... charms , which in other countries she lavishes in wild solitudes , are here assembled round the haunts of domestic life . They seem to have caught her coy and furtive graces , and spread them , like witch- ୮ ery , about their rural ...
... charms , which in other countries she lavishes in wild solitudes , are here assembled round the haunts of domestic life . They seem to have caught her coy and furtive graces , and spread them , like witch- ୮ ery , about their rural ...
الصفحة 83
... charms ; but the British poets have lived and reveled with her - they have wooed her in her most secret haunts - they ... charm , however , of English scenery is the moral feeling that seems to pervade it . It is associated in the mind ...
... charms ; but the British poets have lived and reveled with her - they have wooed her in her most secret haunts - they ... charm , however , of English scenery is the moral feeling that seems to pervade it . It is associated in the mind ...
الصفحة 89
... charm of existence is at an end . She neglects all the cheerful exercises which gladden the spirits , quicken the pulses , and send the tide of life in healthful currents through the veins . Her rest is broken - the sweet refreshment of ...
... charm of existence is at an end . She neglects all the cheerful exercises which gladden the spirits , quicken the pulses , and send the tide of life in healthful currents through the veins . Her rest is broken - the sweet refreshment of ...
الصفحة 91
... charm he never so wisely . " The person who told me her story had seen her at a mas- querade . There can be no exhibition of far - gone wretchedness more striking and painful than to meet it in such THE BROKEN HEART . 91.
... charm he never so wisely . " The person who told me her story had seen her at a mas- querade . There can be no exhibition of far - gone wretchedness more striking and painful than to meet it in such THE BROKEN HEART . 91.
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الصفحة 252 - Lear. The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweet-heart, see, they bark at me.
الصفحة 49 - thy mistress leads thee a dog's life of it ; but never mind, my lad, whilst I live thou shalt never want a friend to stand by thee !" Wolf would wag his tail, look wistfully in his master's face, and if dogs can feel pity, I verily believe he reciprocated the sentiment with all his heart.
الصفحة 156 - Windsor, thou didst swear to me then, as I was washing thy wound, to marry me and make me my lady thy wife.
الصفحة 61 - Rip's daughter took him home to live with her; she had a snug, well-furnished house, and a stout, cheery farmer for a husband, whom Rip recollected for one of the urchins that used to climb upon his back. As to Rip's son and heir, who was the ditto of himself, seen leaning against the tree, he was employed to work on the farm; but evinced an hereditary disposition to attend to anything else but his business.
الصفحة 51 - ... like distant thunder, that seemed to issue out of a deep ravine, or rather cleft, between lofty rocks, toward which their rugged path conducted. He paused for an instant, but supposing it to be the muttering of one of those transient thundershowers which often take place in mountain heights, he proceeded.
الصفحة 55 - It was with some difficulty that he found the way to his own house, which he approached with silent awe, expecting every moment to hear the shrill voice of Dame Van Winkle. He found the house gone to decay — the roof fallen in, the windows shattered, and the doors off the hinges. A half-starved dog, that looked like Wolf, was skulking about it.
الصفحة 180 - With fairest flowers, Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave : thou shalt not lack The flower that's like thy face, pale primrose ; nor The azured hare-bell, like thy veins ; no, nor The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Out-sweeten'd not thy breath...
الصفحة 49 - ... cliffs, and scarcely lighted by the reflected rays of the setting sun. For some time Rip lay musing on this scene ; evening was gradually advancing; the mountains began to throw their long blue shadows over the valleys; he saw that it would be dark long before he could reach the village, and he heaved a heavy sigh when he thought of encountering the terrors of Dame Van Winkle. As he was about to descend, he heard a voice from a distance, hallooing, "Rip Van Winkle! Rip Van Winkle!
الصفحة 58 - 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 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.