The Sketch BookB. Tauchnitz, 1843 - 446 من الصفحات |
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... living streams of knowledge . There is a " daily beauty in his life , " on which mankind may meditate and grow better . It exhibits no lofty and almost useless , because inimitable , example of excel- lence ; but presents a picture of ...
... living streams of knowledge . There is a " daily beauty in his life , " on which mankind may meditate and grow better . It exhibits no lofty and almost useless , because inimitable , example of excel- lence ; but presents a picture of ...
الصفحة 36
... living - nay , " observing a pang to pass across his countenance , " don't let that afflict you . I am sure you have never placed your happiness in outward show - you have yet friends , warm friends , who will not think the worse of you ...
... living - nay , " observing a pang to pass across his countenance , " don't let that afflict you . I am sure you have never placed your happiness in outward show - you have yet friends , warm friends , who will not think the worse of you ...
الصفحة 81
... living so much in the open air , and pursuing so eagerly the invigorating recreations of the country . These hardy exercises produce also a healthful tone of mind and spirits , and a manliness and simplicity of manners , which even the ...
... living so much in the open air , and pursuing so eagerly the invigorating recreations of the country . These hardy exercises produce also a healthful tone of mind and spirits , and a manliness and simplicity of manners , which even the ...
الصفحة 91
... addresses to her , and thought that one so true to the dead could not but prove affectionate to the living . She declined his attentions , for her thoughts were irrevocably engrossed by the memory of her former THE BROKEN HEART . 91.
... addresses to her , and thought that one so true to the dead could not but prove affectionate to the living . She declined his attentions , for her thoughts were irrevocably engrossed by the memory of her former THE BROKEN HEART . 91.
الصفحة 121
... living had disabled him from doing any thing more than ride to see the hounds throw off , and make one at the hunting dinner . Under the ministry of such a pastor , I found it impossible to get into the train of thought suitable to the ...
... living had disabled him from doing any thing more than ride to see the hounds throw off , and make one at the hunting dinner . Under the ministry of such a pastor , I found it impossible to get into the train of thought suitable to the ...
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الصفحة 63 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks. Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam...
الصفحة 377 - This is the prettiest low-born lass that ever Ran on the green-sward : nothing she does or seems But smacks of something greater than herself, Too noble for this place.
الصفحة 42 - 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 435 - Gunpowder sprang upon the bridge; he thundered over the resounding planks; he gained the opposite side; and now Ichabod cast a look behind to see if his pursuer should vanish, according to rule, in a flash of fire and brimstone. Just then he saw the goblin rising in his stirrups and in the very act of hurling his head at him. Ichabod endeavored to dodge the horrible missile, but too late.
الصفحة 90 - She sings the wild songs of her dear native plains, Every note which he loved awaking — Ah! little they think, who delight in her strains, How the heart of the minstrel is breaking!
الصفحة 322 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat ; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, " Logan is the friend of white men.
الصفحة 146 - Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet, sitting in my Dolphin chamber, at the round table, by a sea-coal fire, on Wednesday, in Whitsun week, when the prince broke thy head for liking his father to a singing-man of Windsor ; thou didst swear to me then, as I was washing thy wound, to marry me, and make me my lady, thy wife.
الصفحة 420 - ... and nature wore that rich and golden livery which we always associate with the idea of abundance. The forests had put on their sober brown and yellow, while some trees of the tenderer kind had been nipped by the frosts into brilliant dyes of orange, purple and scarlet. Streaming files of wild ducks began to make their appearance high in the air ; the bark of the squirrel might be heard from the groves of beech and hickory nuts, and the pensive whistle of the quail at intervals from the neighboring...
الصفحة 45 - Morning, noon, and night, her tongue was incessantly going, and everything he said or did was sure to produce a torrent of household eloquence. Rip had but one way of replying to all lectures of the kind, and that, by frequent use, had grown into a habit. He shrugged his shoulders, shook his head, cast up his eyes, but said nothing.
الصفحة 53 - ... dreaded to meet his wife ; but it would not do to starve among the mountains. He shook his head, shouldered the rusty firelock, and with a heart full of trouble and anxiety turned his steps homeward.