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الصفحة xvii
... hand . His writings will partake of the fluctuations of his own thoughts and feelings - sometimes treating of scenes before him , sometimes of others purely imaginary , and sometimes wandering back with his recollections to his native ...
... hand . His writings will partake of the fluctuations of his own thoughts and feelings - sometimes treating of scenes before him , sometimes of others purely imaginary , and sometimes wandering back with his recollections to his native ...
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... hand for a second volume . Several days having elapsed without any communication from Mr. Murray , I addressed a note to him , in which I construed his silence into a tacit rejec- tion of my work , and begged that the numbers I had left ...
... hand for a second volume . Several days having elapsed without any communication from Mr. Murray , I addressed a note to him , in which I construed his silence into a tacit rejec- tion of my work , and begged that the numbers I had left ...
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... Con- stable feel inclined to make a bargain for the wares I have on hand , he will encourage me to further enterprise ; and it will be something like trading with a gipsy for the fruits of his prowlings , who may at one time have 6 PREFACE.
... Con- stable feel inclined to make a bargain for the wares I have on hand , he will encourage me to further enterprise ; and it will be something like trading with a gipsy for the fruits of his prowlings , who may at one time have 6 PREFACE.
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... hand . " The first volume of the " Sketch - Book " was put to press in London as I had resolved , at my own risk , by a book- seller unknown to fame , and without any of the usual arts by which a work is trumpeted into notice . Still ...
... hand . " The first volume of the " Sketch - Book " was put to press in London as I had resolved , at my own risk , by a book- seller unknown to fame , and without any of the usual arts by which a work is trumpeted into notice . Still ...
الصفحة 13
... hand , and bring home their portfolios filled with sketches , I am disposed to get up a few for the entertainment of my friends . When , however , I look over the hints and memorandums I have taken down for the purpose , my heart almost ...
... hand , and bring home their portfolios filled with sketches , I am disposed to get up a few for the entertainment of my friends . When , however , I look over the hints and memorandums I have taken down for the purpose , my heart almost ...
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الصفحة 40 - It could not be from the want of assiduity or perseverance ; for he would sit on a wet rock, with a rod as long and heavy as a Tartar's lance, and fish all day without a murmur, even though he should not be encouraged by a single nibble.
الصفحة 48 - ... in the country round. Their dress, too, was of a different fashion from that to which he was accustomed. They all stared at him with equal marks of surprise, and whenever they cast their eyes upon him, invariably stroked their chins. The constant recurrence...
الصفحة 365 - ... the air. A stately squadron of snowy geese were riding in an adjoining pond, convoying whole fleets of ducks; regiments of turkeys were gobbling through the farmyard, and guinea fowls fretting about it, like ill-tempered housewives, with their peevish discontented cry. Before the barn door strutted the gallant cock, that pattern of a husband, a warrior, and a fine gentleman, clapping his burnished wings, and crowing in the pride and gladness of his heart — sometimes tearing up the earth with...
الصفحة 81 - She is far from the land where her young hero sleeps, And lovers around her are sighing : But coldly she turns from their gaze, and weeps, For her heart in his grave is lying.
الصفحة 157 - ... then be sure that every unkind look, every ungracious word, every ungentle action, will come thronging back upon thy memory and knocking dolefully at thy soul — then be sure that thou wilt lie down sorrowing and repentant on the grave, and utter the unheard groan, and pour the unavailing tear ; more deep, more bitter, because unheard and unavailing.
الصفحة 365 - ... fretting about it, like ill-tempered housewives, with their peevish discontented cry. Before the barn door strutted the gallant cock, that pattern of a husband, a warrior, and a fine gentleman, clapping his burnished wings, and crowing in the pride and gladness of his heart — sometimes tearing up the earth with his feet, and then generously calling his ever-hungry family of wives and children to enjoy the rich morsel which he had discovered.
الصفحة 156 - ... lavished upon us, almost unheeded in the daily intercourse of intimacy; there it is that we dwell upon the tenderness, the solemn, awful tenderness of the parting scene; the bed of death, with all its stifled griefs, its noiseless attendance, its mute, watchful assiduities.
الصفحة 363 - Hollow, as they sometimes called him. He would delight them equally by his anecdotes of witchcraft, and of the direful omens and portentous sights and sounds in the air, which prevailed in the earlier times of Connecticut ; and would frighten them...
الصفحة 191 - There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things : our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors.
الصفحة 380 - What passed at this interview I will not pretend to say, for in fact I do not know. Something, however, I fear me, must have gone wrong, for he certainly sallied forth, after no very great interval, with an air quite desolate and chapfallen.