The sketch bookGeorge P. Putnam, 1849 |
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... window of one print - shop to another ; caught , sometimes by the delineations of beauty , some- times by the distortions of caricature , and sometimes by the loveliness of landscape . As it is the fashion for modern tourists to travel ...
... window of one print - shop to another ; caught , sometimes by the delineations of beauty , some- times by the distortions of caricature , and sometimes by the loveliness of landscape . As it is the fashion for modern tourists to travel ...
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... windows of the study , which looked out upon the soft scenery I have mentioned . The windows were closed - the library was gone . Two or three ill - favored beings were loitering about the place , whom my fancy pictured into retainers ...
... windows of the study , which looked out upon the soft scenery I have mentioned . The windows were closed - the library was gone . Two or three ill - favored beings were loitering about the place , whom my fancy pictured into retainers ...
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... window and vanished — a light footstep was heard and Mary came tripping forth to meet us : she was in a pretty rural dress of white ; a few wild flowers were twisted in her fine hair ; a fresh bloom was on her cheek ; her whole ...
... window and vanished — a light footstep was heard and Mary came tripping forth to meet us : she was in a pretty rural dress of white ; a few wild flowers were twisted in her fine hair ; a fresh bloom was on her cheek ; her whole ...
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... windows and gable fronts , surmounted with weather - cocks . 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 ...
... windows and gable fronts , surmounted with weather - cocks . 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 ...
الصفحة 55
... windows- every thing was strange . His mind now misgave him ; he began to doubt whether both he and the world around him were not bewitched . Surely this was his native village , which he had left but the day before . There stood the ...
... windows- every thing was strange . His mind now misgave him ; he began to doubt whether both he and the world around him were not bewitched . Surely this was his native village , which he had left but the day before . There stood the ...
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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.