Rip Van Winkle and Other SketchesRip Van Winkle -- The wife -- The broken heart -- Art of book-making -- The widow and her son -- Boar's Head Tavern, Eastcheap -- Mutability of literature -- Rural funerals -- The spectre bridegroom -- Westminster Abbey -- Stratford-on-Avon -- John Bull -- The legend of Sleepy Hollow. |
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الصفحة 20
A half - starved dog , that looked like Wolf , was skulking about it . Rip called him
by name , but the cur snarled , showed his teeth , and passed on . This was an
unkind cut indeed .— “ My very dog , " sighed poor Rip , “ has forgotten me !
A half - starved dog , that looked like Wolf , was skulking about it . Rip called him
by name , but the cur snarled , showed his teeth , and passed on . This was an
unkind cut indeed .— “ My very dog , " sighed poor Rip , “ has forgotten me !
الصفحة 21
He looked in vain for the sage Nicholas Vedder , with his broad face , double chin
, and fair long pipe , uttering clouds of ... In place of these , a lean bilious - looking
fellow , with his pockets full of handbills , was haranguing vehemently about ...
He looked in vain for the sage Nicholas Vedder , with his broad face , double chin
, and fair long pipe , uttering clouds of ... In place of these , a lean bilious - looking
fellow , with his pockets full of handbills , was haranguing vehemently about ...
الصفحة 24
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 ...
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 ...
الصفحة 32
The fond confiding air with which she looked up to him seemed to call forth a
flush of triumphant pride and cherishing tenderness , as if he doated on his lovely
burden for its very helplessness . Never did a couple set forward on a flowery
path ...
The fond confiding air with which she looked up to him seemed to call forth a
flush of triumphant pride and cherishing tenderness , as if he doated on his lovely
burden for its very helplessness . Never did a couple set forward on a flowery
path ...
الصفحة 38
... an humble dwellingshe has been employed all day in arranging its mis erable
equipments — she has for the first time knowr the fatigues of domestic
employment - she has for the first time looked around her on a home destitute of
everything ...
... an humble dwellingshe has been employed all day in arranging its mis erable
equipments — she has for the first time knowr the fatigues of domestic
employment - she has for the first time looked around her on a home destitute of
everything ...
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الصفحة 23 - Nicholas Vedder?" 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 16 - Their visages, too, were peculiar; one had a large head, broad face, and small piggish eyes; the face of another seemed to consist entirely of nose, and was surmounted by a white sugar-loaf hat, set off with a little red cock's tail. They all had beards, of various shapes and colors. There was one who seemed to be the commander.
الصفحة 23 - Rip's heart died away at hearing of these sad changes in his home and friends, and finding himself thus alone in the world. Every answer puzzled him too, by treating of such enormous lapses of time, and of matters which he could not understand: war— congress— Stony Point— he had no courage to ask after any more friends, but cried out in despair, "Does nobody here know Rip Van Winkle?" "Oh, Rip Van Winkle!" exclaimed two or three, "Oh, to be sure! that's Rip Van Winkle yonder, leaning against...
الصفحة 27 - Rip now resumed his old walks and habits ; he soon found many of his former cronies, though all rather the worse for the wear and tear of time...
الصفحة 26 - 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. That it was affirmed that the great Hendrick Hudson, the first discoverer of the river and country, kept a kind of vigil there every twenty years, with his crew of the Halfmoon ; being permitted in this way to revisit the scenes of his enterprise, and...
الصفحة 7 - When the weather is fair and settled, they are clothed in blue and purple, and print their bold outlines on the clear evening sky ; but sometimes, when the rest of the landscape is cloudless, they will gather a hood of...
الصفحة 25 - 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 48 - ... SHE IS FAR FROM THE LAND. SHE is far from the land where her young hero sleeps, And lovers are round her sighing ; But coldly she turns from their gaze, and weeps, For her heart in his grave is lying.
الصفحة 22 - Alas! gentlemen," cried Rip, somewhat dismayed, " I am a poor quiet man, a native of the place, and a loyal subject of the King, God bless him!" Here a general shout burst from the bystanders — "A tory! a tory! a spy! a refugee! hustle him ! away with him !" It was with great difficulty that the self-important man in the cocked hat restored order ; and having assumed a tenfold austerity of brow, demanded again of the unknown culprit, what he came there for, and whom he was seeking. The poor man...
الصفحة 12 - When anything that was read or related displeased him, he was observed to smoke his pipe vehemently, and to send forth short, frequent, and angry puffs, but when pleased, he would...