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... he solicits for them that courtesy and can- dour which a stranger has some right to claim , who presents himself at the threshold of a hospitable nation . February , 1820 . CONTENTS OF VOL . I. THE AUTHOR'S ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF vi.
... he solicits for them that courtesy and can- dour which a stranger has some right to claim , who presents himself at the threshold of a hospitable nation . February , 1820 . CONTENTS OF VOL . I. THE AUTHOR'S ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF vi.
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... present , and lose myself among the shadowy grandeurs of the past . I had , besides all this , an earnest desire to see the great men of the earth . We haye , it is true , our great men in America : not a city but has an ample share of ...
... present , and lose myself among the shadowy grandeurs of the past . I had , besides all this , an earnest desire to see the great men of the earth . We haye , it is true , our great men in America : not a city but has an ample share of ...
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... however , in general , live but for their own fame , or their own pleasures . Their private history presents no lesson to the world , or , perhaps , a humiliating one of human frailty and inconsistency . At best , they are prone 24 ROSCOE .
... however , in general , live but for their own fame , or their own pleasures . Their private history presents no lesson to the world , or , perhaps , a humiliating one of human frailty and inconsistency . At best , they are prone 24 ROSCOE .
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... because inimitable , example of excel- lence ; but presents a picture of active , yet simple and imitable virtues , which are within every man's reach , but which , unfortunately , are not exercised by many , or this world would ROSCOE .
... because inimitable , example of excel- lence ; but presents a picture of active , yet simple and imitable virtues , which are within every man's reach , but which , unfortunately , are not exercised by many , or this world would ROSCOE .
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... a country in which one of the greatest political experiments in the history of the world is now performing ; and which presents the most pro- found and momentous studies to the statesman and the philosopher ON AMERICA . 95.
... a country in which one of the greatest political experiments in the history of the world is now performing ; and which presents the most pro- found and momentous studies to the statesman and the philosopher ON AMERICA . 95.
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Page 72 - 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?
Page 69 - Rip Van Winkle! Rip Van Winkle!" — at the same time Wolf bristled up his back, and giving a low growl, skulked to his master's side, looking fearfully down into the glen. 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...
Page 59 - 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.
Page 60 - 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 gray vapors about their summits, which, in the last rays of the setting sun, will glow and light up like a crown of glory.
Page 61 - In that same village, and in one of these very houses (which, to tell the precise truth, was sadly time-worn and weather-beaten), there lived many years since, while the country was yet a province of Great Britain, a simple, good-natured fellow of the name of Rip Van Winkle. He was a descendant of the Van Winkles who figured so gallantly in the chivalrous days of Peter Stuyvesant, and accompanied him to the siege of Fort Christina.
Page 69 - ... curl about his nose, would gravely nod his head in token of perfect approbation. From even this strong-hold the unlucky Rip was at length routed by his termagant wife, who would suddenly break in upon the tranquillity of the assemblage and call the members all to naught ; nor was that august personage, Nicholas Vedder himself, sacred from the daring tongue of this terrible virago, who charged him outright with encouraging her husband in habits of idleness.
Page 233 - Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet, sitting in my Dolphin chamber, at the round table, by a sea-coal fire, on Wednesday, in Whitsun week, when the prince broke thy head for liking his father to a singing-man of Windsor ; thou didst swear to me then, as I was washing thy wound, to marry me, and make me my lady, thy wife.
Page 69 - 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...
Page 62 - Certain it is that he was a great favorite among all the good wives of the village, who, as usual with the amiable sex, took his part in all family squabbles, and never failed, whenever they talked those matters over in their evening gossipings, to lay all the blame on Dame Van Winkle.
Page 276 - With fairest flowers, Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave ; thou shall not lack The flower that's like thy face, pale primrose ; nor The azured harebell, like thy veins ; no, nor The leaf of eglantine ; whom not to slander, Outsweeten'd not thy breath.