Washington Irving's Sketch BookLongmans, Green, and Company, 1906 - 428 من الصفحات |
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... picture of active , yet simple and imitable virtues , which are within every man's reach , but which , unfortunately , are not exercised by many , or this world would be a paradise . But his private life is peculiarly worthy the ...
... picture of active , yet simple and imitable virtues , which are within every man's reach , but which , unfortunately , are not exercised by many , or this world would be a paradise . But his private life is peculiarly worthy the ...
الصفحة 27
... picture to ourselves some knot of speculators , debating with calculating brow over the quaint binding and illuminated margin of an obsolete author ; of the air of intense , but baffled sagacity , with which some successful purchaser ...
... picture to ourselves some knot of speculators , debating with calculating brow over the quaint binding and illuminated margin of an obsolete author ; of the air of intense , but baffled sagacity , with which some successful purchaser ...
الصفحة 35
... picture that I could not gainsay , so we walked on in silence . After turning from the main road up a narrow lane , so thickly shaded with forest trees as to give it a complete air of seclusion , we came in sight of the cottage . It was ...
... picture that I could not gainsay , so we walked on in silence . After turning from the main road up a narrow lane , so thickly shaded with forest trees as to give it a complete air of seclusion , we came in sight of the cottage . It was ...
الصفحة 59
... picture out with the illusions of their fancies ; but I would cautiously receive his account of his immediate neigh- bors , and of those nations with which he is in habits of most frequent intercourse . However I might be disposed to ...
... picture out with the illusions of their fancies ; but I would cautiously receive his account of his immediate neigh- bors , and of those nations with which he is in habits of most frequent intercourse . However I might be disposed to ...
الصفحة 71
... pictures in his mind the future landscape . The sterile spot grows into loveliness under his hand ; and yet the operations ... picture . The residence of people of fortune and refinement in the country has diffused a degree of taste and ...
... pictures in his mind the future landscape . The sterile spot grows into loveliness under his hand ; and yet the operations ... picture . The residence of people of fortune and refinement in the country has diffused a degree of taste and ...
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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.