Rip Van Winkle: And Other American Essays from The Sketch-bookHoughton, Mifflin, 1891 - 99 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 35
... entered that sleepy region , they are sure , in a little time , to inhale the witching influence of the air , and begin to grow imaginative , to dream dreams , and see apparitions . I mention this peaceful spot with all possible laud ...
... entered that sleepy region , they are sure , in a little time , to inhale the witching influence of the air , and begin to grow imaginative , to dream dreams , and see apparitions . I mention this peaceful spot with all possible laud ...
الصفحة 47
... entered the hall , which formed the centre of the mansion , and the place of usual residence . Here rows of resplendent pewter , ranged on a long dresser , dazzled his eyes . In one corner stood a huge bag of wool , ready to be spun ...
... entered the hall , which formed the centre of the mansion , and the place of usual residence . Here rows of resplendent pewter , ranged on a long dresser , dazzled his eyes . In one corner stood a huge bag of wool , ready to be spun ...
الصفحة 58
... entered the state parlor of Van Tassel's mansion . Not those of the bevy of buxom lasses , with their luxurious display of red and white ; but the ample charms of a genuine Dutch country tea - table , in the sumptuous time of autumn ...
... entered the state parlor of Van Tassel's mansion . Not those of the bevy of buxom lasses , with their luxurious display of red and white ; but the ample charms of a genuine Dutch country tea - table , in the sumptuous time of autumn ...
الصفحة 67
... entered the wood , a group of oaks and chestnuts , matted thick with wild grape - vines , threw a cavernous gloom over it . To pass this bridge was the severest trial . It was at this identical spot that the unfortunate André was ...
... entered the wood , a group of oaks and chestnuts , matted thick with wild grape - vines , threw a cavernous gloom over it . To pass this bridge was the severest trial . It was at this identical spot that the unfortunate André was ...
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الصفحة 3 - 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 16 - He recollected Rip at once, and corroborated his story in the most satisfactory manner. He assured the company that it was a fact, handed down from his ancestor the historian, that the Kaatskill mountains had always been haunted by strange beings.
الصفحة 1 - 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 11 - WASHINGTON. There was, as usual, a crowd of folk about the door, but none that Rip recollected. The very character of the people seemed changed. There was a busy, bustling, disputatious tone about it, instead of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquillity.
الصفحة 1 - The children of the village, too, would shout with joy whenever he approached. He assisted at their sports, made their playthings, taught them to fly kites and shoot marbles, and told them long stories of ghosts, witches, and Indians. Whenever he went dodging about the village, he was surrounded by a troop of them, hanging on his skirts, clambering on his back, and playing a thousand tricks on him with impunity; and not a dog would bark at him throughout the neighborhood.
الصفحة 11 - ... village. A troop of strange children ran at his heels, hooting after him, and pointing at his gray beard. The dogs, too, not one of which he recognized for an old acquaintance, barked at him as he passed. The very village was altered : it was larger and more populous. There were rows of houses which he had never seen before, and those which had been his familiar haunts had disappeared. Strange names were over the doors, strange faces at the windows : everything was strange.
الصفحة 5 - thy mistress leads thee a dog's life of it ; but never mind, my lad, whilst I live thou shalt never want a friend to stand by thee ! " Wolf would wag his tail, look wistfully in his master's face, and if dogs can feel pity, I verily believe he reciprocated the sentiment with all his heart.
الصفحة 7 - Passing through the ravine, they came to a hollow, like a small amphitheatre, surrounded by perpendicular precipices, over the brinks of which impending trees shot their branches, so that you only caught glimpses of the azure sky and the bright evening cloud.
الصفحة 25 - ... so that though a thief might get in with perfect ease, he would find some embarrassment in getting out : an idea most probably borrowed by the architect, Yost Van Houten, from the mystery of an eel-pot.
الصفحة vii - At the foot of these fairy mountains, the voyager may have descried the light smoke curling up from a village, whose shingle-roofs gleam among the trees, just where the blue tints of the upland melt away into the fresh green of the nearer landscape.