The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. [pseud.] ...A. and W. Galignani, 1824 |
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الصفحة 319
... received from him , from Wurtzburg , where he was acciden- tally detained , mentioning the day and hour when he might be expected to arrive . The castle was in a tumult of preparation to give THE SPECTRE BRIDEGROOM . 319.
... received from him , from Wurtzburg , where he was acciden- tally detained , mentioning the day and hour when he might be expected to arrive . The castle was in a tumult of preparation to give THE SPECTRE BRIDEGROOM . 319.
الصفحة 323
... received the most en- rapturing descriptions . As the route of the friends lay in the same direction , they agreed to perform the rest of their journey together ; and that they might do it the more leisurely , set off from Wurtz- burg ...
... received the most en- rapturing descriptions . As the route of the friends lay in the same direction , they agreed to perform the rest of their journey together ; and that they might do it the more leisurely , set off from Wurtz- burg ...
الصفحة 324
... received a mortal wound . He was slowly and carefully conveyed back to the city of Wurtzburg , and a friar summoned from a neighbouring con- vent , who was famous for his skill in adminis- tering to both soul and body ; but half of his ...
... received a mortal wound . He was slowly and carefully conveyed back to the city of Wurtzburg , and a friar summoned from a neighbouring con- vent , who was famous for his skill in adminis- tering to both soul and body ; but half of his ...
الصفحة 339
... received , can only be imagined by those who have witnessed the agitation which the mishaps of a great man cause among his friends . Even the poor rela- tions paused for a moment from the indefati- gable labours of the trencher ; when ...
... received , can only be imagined by those who have witnessed the agitation which the mishaps of a great man cause among his friends . Even the poor rela- tions paused for a moment from the indefati- gable labours of the trencher ; when ...
الصفحة 62
... received this living shortly after the latter had come to his estate . was a complete black - letter hunter , and would scarcely read a work printed in the Roman character . The editions of Caxton and Wyn kin de Worde were his delight ...
... received this living shortly after the latter had come to his estate . was a complete black - letter hunter , and would scarcely read a work printed in the Roman character . The editions of Caxton and Wyn kin de Worde were his delight ...
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الصفحة 88 - 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 church-yard that used to tell all about him, but that's rotten and gone too.
الصفحة 289 - Say I died true. My love was false, but I was firm, From my hour of birth, Upon my buried body lie Lightly, gentle earth.
الصفحة 12 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
الصفحة 83 - 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 80 - He now suspected that the grave roysters of the mountain had put a trick upon him, and, having dosed him with liquor, had 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 274 - This is the prettiest low-born lass that ever Ran on the green-sward : nothing she does or seems But smacks of something greater than herself, Too noble for this place.
الصفحة 84 - ... 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. Rip called him by name, but the cur snarled, showed his teeth, and passed on. This was an unkind cut indeed.
الصفحة 87 - ... 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 he meant to breed a riot in the village?
الصفحة 78 - ... countenances, that his heart turned within him, and his knees smote together. His companion now emptied the contents of the keg into large flagons, and made signs to him to wait upon the company. He obeyed with fear and trembling; they quaffed the liquor in profound silence, and then returned to their game.
الصفحة 316 - ... 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.