The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, المجلد 2J. Murray, 1820 - 419 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 103
... dance , advancing , retreating , and striking their clubs together , keeping exact time to the mu- sic ; while one , whimsically crowned with a fox's skin , the tail of which flaunted down his back , kept capering round the skirts of ...
... dance , advancing , retreating , and striking their clubs together , keeping exact time to the mu- sic ; while one , whimsically crowned with a fox's skin , the tail of which flaunted down his back , kept capering round the skirts of ...
الصفحة 104
... dance of the ancients . " It was now , " he said , " nearly extinct , but he had accidentally met with traces of it in the neighbourhood , and had encouraged its revival ; though , to tell the truth , it was too apt to be followed up by ...
... dance of the ancients . " It was now , " he said , " nearly extinct , but he had accidentally met with traces of it in the neighbourhood , and had encouraged its revival ; though , to tell the truth , it was too apt to be followed up by ...
الصفحة 106
... dancing a jig with a smart country lad , while several of the other servants were looking on . In the midst of her sport the girl caught a glimpse of my face at the window , and colouring up , ran off with an air of roguish affected ...
... dancing a jig with a smart country lad , while several of the other servants were looking on . In the midst of her sport the girl caught a glimpse of my face at the window , and colouring up , ran off with an air of roguish affected ...
الصفحة 132
... dance of all the characters , which from its medley of costumes , seemed as though the old family portraits had skipped down from their frames to join in the sport . Different centuries were figuring at cross hands and right and left ...
... dance of all the characters , which from its medley of costumes , seemed as though the old family portraits had skipped down from their frames to join in the sport . Different centuries were figuring at cross hands and right and left ...
الصفحة 133
... dance called the Pavon , from pavo , a peacock , says , " It is a grave and majestic dance ; the me- thod of dancing it anciently was by gentlemen dressed with caps and swords , by those of the long robe in their gowns , by the peers in ...
... dance called the Pavon , from pavo , a peacock , says , " It is a grave and majestic dance ; the me- thod of dancing it anciently was by gentlemen dressed with caps and swords , by those of the long robe in their gowns , by the peers in ...
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الصفحة 60 - Lear. The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweet-heart, see, they bark at me.
الصفحة 108 - Just in the nick the Cook knock'd thrice, And all the waiters in a trice His summons did obey; Each serving man, with dish in hand, March'd boldly up like our train'd band, Presented, and away.
الصفحة 348 - 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; and who is ever and anon seen by the country folk, hurrying along in the gloom of night, as if on the wings of the wind.
الصفحة 378 - Ichabod to attend a merrymaking or "quilting frolic" to be held that evening at Mynheer Van Tassel's; and having delivered his message with that air of importance and effort at fine language which a Negro is apt to display on petty embassies of the kind, he dashed over the brook and was seen scampering away up the hollow, full of the importance and hurry of his mission.
الصفحة 75 - Since ghost there is none to affright thee. Let not the dark thee cumber ; What though the moon does slumber? The stars of the night Will lend thee their light, Like tapers clear without number.
الصفحة 356 - ... and absolute sway with which he lorded it in his little empire, the school, and became wonderfully gentle and ingratiating. He found favor in the eyes of the mothers by petting the children, particularly the youngest, and like the lion bold, which whilom so magnanimously the lamb did hold, he would sit with a child on one knee and rock a cradle with his foot for whole hours together.
الصفحة 213 - 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 367 - It was one of those spacious farmhouses, with high-ridged but lowly-sloping roofs, built in the style handed down from the first Dutch settlers. The low projecting eaves forming a piazza along the front, capable of being closed up in bad weather. Under this were hung flails, harness, various utensils of husbandry, and nets for fishing in the neighboring river.
الصفحة 19 - I could only hear, now and then, the distant voice of the priest repeating the evening service, and the faint responses of the choir ; these paused for a time, and all was hushed. The stillness, the desertion and obscurity that were gradually prevailing around, gave a deeper and more solemn interest to the place : For in the silent grave no conversation.
الصفحة 374 - Thus while the busy dame bustled about the house, or plied her spinning-wheel at one end of the piazza...