Legends of Terror!: And Tales of the Wonderful and Wild ; Original and Select, in Prose and VerseSherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 1826 - 642 من الصفحات |
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... tion at the window . He raised the horoscope to heaven . His frame seem- ed trembling with convulsion . Twice he passed his hand across his brow , and shuddered as he beheld the aspect of the heavens . " But a few days , " he said ...
... tion at the window . He raised the horoscope to heaven . His frame seem- ed trembling with convulsion . Twice he passed his hand across his brow , and shuddered as he beheld the aspect of the heavens . " But a few days , " he said ...
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... tion , and all again was silent . Ex- hausted by this second trial , it was with difficulty that Sellner tottered to his chamber , where the visible alteration in his appearance excited so much alarm , that the physician was again ...
... tion , and all again was silent . Ex- hausted by this second trial , it was with difficulty that Sellner tottered to his chamber , where the visible alteration in his appearance excited so much alarm , that the physician was again ...
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... tion . Richard Faulder , the only man who survived , has often sat at my fire side , and sung me a very rude , but a very moving ballad , which he made on this accomplished and unhappy pair : and the old mariner assured me he had only ...
... tion . Richard Faulder , the only man who survived , has often sat at my fire side , and sung me a very rude , but a very moving ballad , which he made on this accomplished and unhappy pair : and the old mariner assured me he had only ...
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... tion ) lost more and more of its plausibility , for I found him to be nothing of a visionary or one who wishes to pass off his inventions for truth . Admitting , however , that all this were otherwise , whence the perfect accordance ...
... tion ) lost more and more of its plausibility , for I found him to be nothing of a visionary or one who wishes to pass off his inventions for truth . Admitting , however , that all this were otherwise , whence the perfect accordance ...
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... tion of one who prays and breathes up sighs to heaven . The owls and the night - ravens flitted croaking about ; and the skulls and bones rattled beneath their wings . William kneeled down on his coaly hearth ; and with the last stroke ...
... tion of one who prays and breathes up sighs to heaven . The owls and the night - ravens flitted croaking about ; and the skulls and bones rattled beneath their wings . William kneeled down on his coaly hearth ; and with the last stroke ...
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الصفحة 601 - 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 604 - 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 603 - Rip now felt a vague apprehension stealing over him; he looked anxiously in the same direction, and perceived a strange figure slowly toiling up the rocks, and bending under the weight of something he carried on his back. He was surprised to see any human being in this lonely and unfrequented place, but supposing it to be some one of the neighborhood in need of his assistance, he hastened down to yield it.
الصفحة 605 - 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. 'My very dog,' sighed poor Rip, 'has forgotten me!
الصفحة 601 - 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 608 - Half-moon ; being permitted in this way to revisit the scenes, of his enterprise, and keep a guardian eye upon the river and the great city called by his name; that his father had once seen them in their old Dutch dresses playing at ninepins in...
الصفحة 605 - These mountain beds do not agree with me," thought Rip, " and if this frolic should lay me up with a fit of the rheumatism, I shall have a blessed time with Dame Van Winkle." With some difficulty he got down into the glen : he found the gully up which he and his companion had ascended the preceding evening ; but to his astonishment a mountain stream was now foaming down it, leaping from rock to rock, and filling the glen with babbling murmurs. He, however, made shift to scramble up its sides, working...
الصفحة 603 - On nearer approach he was still more surprised at the singularity of the stranger's appearance. He was a short, square-built old fellow, with thick bushy hair, and a grizzled beard.
الصفحة 600 - 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 607 - 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?