Rip Van Winkle, and Other SketchesUseful knowledge publishing Company, 1882 - 240 من الصفحات |
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... writer considers it his bounden duty to light up some portion of his character or works , and to rescue some merit from oblivion . The commentator , opulent in words , produces vast tomes of dissertations ; the common herd of editors ...
... writer considers it his bounden duty to light up some portion of his character or works , and to rescue some merit from oblivion . The commentator , opulent in words , produces vast tomes of dissertations ; the common herd of editors ...
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... writers , and were much more worn by time than use . In the center of the library was a solitary table , with two or three books on it , an inkstand without ink , and a few pens parched by long disuse . The place seemed fitted for quiet ...
... writers , and were much more worn by time than use . In the center of the library was a solitary table , with two or three books on it , an inkstand without ink , and a few pens parched by long disuse . The place seemed fitted for quiet ...
الصفحة 91
... writers of your time have likewise passed into forgetfulness ; and De Worde's publications are mere literary rare- ties among book - collectors . The purity and stability of language , too , on which you found your claims to perpetuity ...
... writers of your time have likewise passed into forgetfulness ; and De Worde's publications are mere literary rare- ties among book - collectors . The purity and stability of language , too , on which you found your claims to perpetuity ...
الصفحة 92
... writer . He finds the language in which he has embarked his fame gradu- ally altering , and subject to the dilapidations ... writers , have fully accom . plished the ornature of the same , to their great praise and immortal commendation ...
... writer . He finds the language in which he has embarked his fame gradu- ally altering , and subject to the dilapidations ... writers , have fully accom . plished the ornature of the same , to their great praise and immortal commendation ...
الصفحة 93
... writers whom you suppose in vogue , because they happened to be so when you were last in circulation , have long ... writer was the secretary of eloquence , the breath of the muses , the honey bee of the dain- tyest flowers of witt and ...
... writers whom you suppose in vogue , because they happened to be so when you were last in circulation , have long ... writer was the secretary of eloquence , the breath of the muses , the honey bee of the dain- tyest flowers of witt and ...
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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...