Selections from Irving's Sketch-bookAmerican Book Company, 1907 - 315 من الصفحات |
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... poet than to credit their own account with one more famous place " done . " It is a curious speculation to think that Irving , seeking to restore in his own mind a past , por- trayed for us the then present , which is now itself so much ...
... poet than to credit their own account with one more famous place " done . " It is a curious speculation to think that Irving , seeking to restore in his own mind a past , por- trayed for us the then present , which is now itself so much ...
الصفحة 32
... poet was born and buried there three centuries ago . One only feels pained , for instance , that Irving's reverential description of the church no longer holds good : one sometimes may rub his eyes and wonder whether he is in a church ...
... poet was born and buried there three centuries ago . One only feels pained , for instance , that Irving's reverential description of the church no longer holds good : one sometimes may rub his eyes and wonder whether he is in a church ...
الصفحة 44
... poets had painted it ; and they bring with them the flavour of those honest 20 days of yore , in which , perhaps , with equal fallacy , I am apt to think the world was more homebred , social , and joyous than at present . I regret to ...
... poets had painted it ; and they bring with them the flavour of those honest 20 days of yore , in which , perhaps , with equal fallacy , I am apt to think the world was more homebred , social , and joyous than at present . I regret to ...
الصفحة 93
... poets , - " I like them well - the curious preciseness . - And all - pretended gravity of those That seek to banish hence these harmless sports , Have thrust away much ancient honesty . ' 3 15 " The nation , " continued he , " is ...
... poets , - " I like them well - the curious preciseness . - And all - pretended gravity of those That seek to banish hence these harmless sports , Have thrust away much ancient honesty . ' 3 15 " The nation , " continued he , " is ...
الصفحة 121
... poets sing , delights to visit a cottage , it must be the cottage of an English peasant . The fondness for rural life among the higher classes of 25 the English has had a great and salutary effect upon the national character . I do not ...
... poets sing , delights to visit a cottage , it must be the cottage of an English peasant . The fondness for rural life among the higher classes of 25 the English has had a great and salutary effect upon the national character . I do not ...
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الصفحة 268 - In a long ramble of the kind on a fine autumnal day, Rip had unconsciously scrambled to one of the highest parts of the Kaatskill mountains. He was after his favorite sport of squirrel shooting, and the still solitudes had echoed and reechoed with the reports of his gun.
الصفحة 266 - Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as years of matrimony rolled on; a tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
الصفحة 282 - Having nothing to do at home, and being arrived at that happy age when a man can be idle with impunity, he took his place once more on the bench at the inn door, and was reverenced as one of the patriarchs of the village, and a chronicle of the old times
الصفحة 277 - Rip was equally at a loss to comprehend the question, when a knowing, self-important old gentleman in a sharp cocked hat made his way through the crowd, putting them to the right and left with his elbows as he passed, and planting himself before Van Winkle with one arm akimbo, the other resting on his cane, his keen eyes and sharp hat penetrating, as it were, into his very soul, demanded in an austere tone what brought him to the election with a gun on his shoulder and a mob at his heels, and whether...
الصفحة 220 - He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weather-cock, perched upon his spindle neck, to tell which way the wind blew.
الصفحة 273 - ... robbed him of his gun. Wolf too had disappeared ; but he might have strayed away after a squirrel or partridge. He whistled after him and shouted his name, but all in vain; the echoes repeated his whistle and shout, but no dog was to be seen.
الصفحة 264 - The women of the village, too, used to employ him to run their errands, and to do such little odd jobs as their less obliging husbands would not do for them ; — in a word, Rip was ready to attend to anybody's business but his own; but as to doing family duty, and keeping his farm in order, he found it impossible.
الصفحة 274 - ... at the poor man's perplexities. What was to be done ? the morning was passing away, and Rip felt famished for want of his breakfast. He grieved to give up his dog and gun ; he dreaded to meet his wife ; but it would not do to starve among the mountains.
الصفحة 267 - The opinions of this junto were completely controlled by Nicholas Vedder, a patriarch of the village, and landlord of the inn, at the door of which he took his seat from morning till night, just moving sufficiently to avoid the sun and keep in the shade of a large tree, so that the neighbours could tell the hour by his movements as accurately as by a sundial.
الصفحة 268 - From an opening between the trees he could overlook all the lower country for many a mile of rich woodland. He saw at a distance the lordly Hudson, far, far below him, moving on its silent but majestic course, with the reflection of a purple cloud, or the sail of a lagging bark, here and there sleeping on its glassy bosom, and at last losing itself in the blue highlands.