The Sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. [pseud.], المجلد 1Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1836 |
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... 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 - every thing was strange . His mind now misgave him ; he 58 RIP VAN WINKLE .
... 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 - every thing was strange . His mind now misgave him ; he 58 RIP VAN WINKLE .
الصفحة 60
... face of King George , under which he had smoked so many a peaceful pipe , but even this was singularly metamor- phosed . The red coat was changed for one of blue and buff , a sword was held in the hand instead of a sceptre , the head ...
... face of King George , under which he had smoked so many a peaceful pipe , but even this was singularly metamor- phosed . The red coat was changed for one of blue and buff , a sword was held in the hand instead of a sceptre , the head ...
الصفحة 64
... face for a moment , ex- claimed , " Sure enough ! it is Rip Van Winkle - it is himself . Welcome home again , old neighbour - Why , where have you been these twenty long years ? " Rip's story was soon told , for the whole twenty years ...
... face for a moment , ex- claimed , " Sure enough ! it is Rip Van Winkle - it is himself . Welcome home again , old neighbour - Why , where have you been these twenty long years ? " Rip's story was soon told , for the whole twenty years ...
الصفحة 89
... face of the country . A great part of the island is rather level , and would be monotonous , were it not for the charms of culture ; but it is studded and gemmed , as it were , with castles and palaces , and embroidered with parks and ...
... face of the country . A great part of the island is rather level , and would be monotonous , were it not for the charms of culture ; but it is studded and gemmed , as it were , with castles and palaces , and embroidered with parks and ...
الصفحة 90
... faces , and modest cheerfulness , thronging tran- quilly along the green lanes to church ; but it is still more pleasing to see them in the evenings , gathering about their cottage doors , and appearing to exult in the humble comforts ...
... faces , and modest cheerfulness , thronging tran- quilly along the green lanes to church ; but it is still more pleasing to see them in the evenings , gathering about their cottage doors , and appearing to exult in the humble comforts ...
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الصفحة 56 - On waking, he found himself on the green knoll whence he had first seen the old man of the glen. He rubbed his eyes. It was a bright, sunny morning. The birds were hopping and twittering among the bushes, and the eagle was wheeling aloft and breasting the pure mountain breeze. "Surely," thought Rip. "I have not slept here all night.
الصفحة 53 - He was a short, square-built old fellow, with thick bushy hair, and a grizzled beard. His dress was of the antique Dutch fashion: a cloth jerkin...
الصفحة 45 - WHOEVER has made a voyage up the Hudson must remember the Kaatskill mountains. They are a dismembered branch of the great Appalachian family, and are seen away to the west of the river, swelling up to a noble height, and lording it over the surrounding country.
الصفحة 69 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant Nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam...
الصفحة 51 - ... 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 59 - It was with some difficulty that he found the way to his own house, which he approached with silent awe, expecting every moment to hear the shrill voice of Dame Van Winkle. He found the house gone to decay, the roof fallen in, the windows shattered, and the doors off the hinges. A half -starved dog that looked like Wolf was skulking about it.
الصفحة 62 - There was a silence for a little while, when an old man replied, in a thin, piping voice, "Nicholas Vedder! why, he is dead and gone these eighteen years! There was a wooden tombstone in the churchyard that used to tell all about him, but that's rotten and gone too.
الصفحة 63 - 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.
الصفحة 59 - 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 225 - They linger about these as about the tombs of friends and companions ; for indeed there is something of companionship between the author and the reader. Other men are known to posterity only through the medium of history, which is continually growing faint and obscure : but the intercourse between the author and his fellowmen is ever new, active, and immediate.