Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy HollowMacmillan and Company, 1893 - 218 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة viii
... soul , and was soon tempted to repeat the draught 61 " He looked round for his gun , but in place of the clean well - oiled fowling - piece , he found an old firelock lying by him , the barrel encrusted with rust " 65 " These mountain ...
... soul , and was soon tempted to repeat the draught 61 " He looked round for his gun , but in place of the clean well - oiled fowling - piece , he found an old firelock lying by him , the barrel encrusted with rust " 65 " These mountain ...
الصفحة 8
... soul with insight and sympathy . The fays and elves have been watching for him and have led his footsteps to their revel grounds and have told their secrets and sung their songs to him . The spirits of this region must have met ...
... soul with insight and sympathy . The fays and elves have been watching for him and have led his footsteps to their revel grounds and have told their secrets and sung their songs to him . The spirits of this region must have met ...
الصفحة 10
... cyclones of nervous energy . He perhaps of all others was the only perfectly quiet and happy soul , left with nothing to go on with but a breath of suspended animation . Are these spooks of the departed buccaneers 10 PREFACE.
... cyclones of nervous energy . He perhaps of all others was the only perfectly quiet and happy soul , left with nothing to go on with but a breath of suspended animation . Are these spooks of the departed buccaneers 10 PREFACE.
الصفحة 12
... soul " as Walt Whitman sings . He may have seen a more lovely blue in the heavens reflected in the quiet pools as he fished away the hours , with some entranced urchin looking on . The kites and soap - bubbles that he taught them to ...
... soul " as Walt Whitman sings . He may have seen a more lovely blue in the heavens reflected in the quiet pools as he fished away the hours , with some entranced urchin looking on . The kites and soap - bubbles that he taught them to ...
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... soul , and was soon tempted to repeat the draught " He looked round for his gun , but in place of the clean well - oiled fowling - piece , he found an old firelock lying by him , the barrel encrusted with rust " . . . 49 53 57 59 59 61 ...
... soul , and was soon tempted to repeat the draught " He looked round for his gun , but in place of the clean well - oiled fowling - piece , he found an old firelock lying by him , the barrel encrusted with rust " . . . 49 53 57 59 59 61 ...
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1893 by Macmillan Balt Baltus Van Tassel blessed blue bridge Brom Bones brook brow church cocked companion Copyright 1893 Dame Van Winkle DIEDRICH KNICKERBOCKER door drowsy Dutch elves eyes fancy farm-house favourite fearful fellow foot fowling-piece frolic Galloping Hessian ghosts goblin Gunpowder haunted head heard heart hills horse Hudson River Hudson River School Ichabod Crane Kaatskill Mountains Katrina Katrina Van Tassel kind knight-errant LACOUR late Diedrich LEGEND OF SLEEPY looked master name of Rip neighbour neighbourhood never Nicholas Vedder night nine-pins old gentleman passed Peter Stuyvesant pipe poor Rip POSTHUMOUS WRITING quiet rider Rip Van Winkle Rip's Ripper road round rustic scene school-house schoolmaster seemed seen shoulder side Sketch Book Sleepy Hollow smoke soul spirit steed story strange tale Tam-o-Shanter Tassel termagant thought Rip thunder told tree urchin village Washington Irving wild WINKLE A POSTHUMOUS Woden WRITING FROM DIEDRICH
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الصفحة 47 - The name of the child, the air of the mother, the tone of her voice, all awakened a train of recollections in his mind. "What is your name, my good woman?
الصفحة 46 - Rip looked, and beheld a precise counterpart of himself, as he went up the mountain: apparently as lazy, and certainly as ragged. The poor fellow was now completely confounded. He doubted his own identity, and whether he was himself or another man. In the midst of his bewilderment, the man in the cocked hat demanded who he was, and What, was his name?
الصفحة 15 - Winkle !" He looked round, but could see nothing but a crow winging its solitary flight across the mountain. He thought his fancy must have deceived : him, and turned again to descend, when he heard the same cry ring through the still evening air ; " Rip Van Winkle ! Rip Van Winkle...
الصفحة 24 - ... were evidently amusing themselves, yet they maintained the gravest faces, the most mysterious silence, and were, withal, the most melancholy party of pleasure he had ever witnessed. Nothing interrupted the stillness of the scene but the noise of the balls, which, whenever they were rolled, echoed along the mountains like rumbling peals of thunder. As Rip and his companion approached them, they suddenly desisted from their play, and stared at him with such fixed, statue-like gaze, and such strange,...
الصفحة 72 - The dominant spirit, however, that haunts this enchanted region, and seems to be commander-in-chief of all the powers of the air, is the apparition of a figure on horseback without a head. It is said by some to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper, whose head had been carried away by a cannon-ball, in some nameless battle during the revolutionary war...
الصفحة 4 - How solemnly they would listen to the contents, as drawled out by Derrick Van Bummel, the schoolmaster, a dapper learned little man, who was not to be daunted by the most gigantic word in the dictionary ; and how sagely they would deliberate upon public events some months after they had taken place. The opinions of this junto were completely controlled by Nicholas Vedder, a patriarch of the village, and landlord of the inn...
الصفحة 25 - He would carry a fowling-piece on his shoulder for hours together, trudging through woods and swamps, and up hill and down dale, to shoot a few squirrels or wild pigeons.
الصفحة 8 - ... of his wife, was to take gun in hand and stroll away into the woods. Here he would sometimes seat himself at the foot of a tree, and share the contents of his wallet with Wolf, with whom he sympathized as a fellow-sufferer in persecution. "Poor Wolf...
الصفحة 17 - 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...