The sketch book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., (Washington Irving)., Volume 2Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1880 |
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... delighted , and the English nation joined to applaud the author , who , without aban- doning his just national pride , was yet sensible to those feelings in which Englishmen glory , and exhibited the honest exultation of a descendant in ...
... delighted , and the English nation joined to applaud the author , who , without aban- doning his just national pride , was yet sensible to those feelings in which Englishmen glory , and exhibited the honest exultation of a descendant in ...
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... delighted to loll over the quarter railing 12 , or climb to the main top , of a calm day , and muse for hours together on the tranquil bosom of a summer's sea ; to gaze upon the piles of golden clouds just peering above the horizon ...
... delighted to loll over the quarter railing 12 , or climb to the main top , of a calm day , and muse for hours together on the tranquil bosom of a summer's sea ; to gaze upon the piles of golden clouds just peering above the horizon ...
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... delight on neat cottages , with their trim shrub- beries and green grass - plots . I saw the mouldering ruin of an abbey overrun with ivy , and the taper spire of a village church rising from the brow of a neighbouring hill ; all were ...
... delight on neat cottages , with their trim shrub- beries and green grass - plots . I saw the mouldering ruin of an abbey overrun with ivy , and the taper spire of a village church rising from the brow of a neighbouring hill ; all were ...
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... delight in disappointing the assiduities of art , with which it 12 would rear legitimate dulness to maturity ; and to glory in the vigour and luxuriance of her chance productions . She scatters the seeds of genius to the winds , and ...
... delight in disappointing the assiduities of art , with which it 12 would rear legitimate dulness to maturity ; and to glory in the vigour and luxuriance of her chance productions . She scatters the seeds of genius to the winds , and ...
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... delightful . A fine lawn sloped away from it studded with clumps of trees , so disposed as to break a soft fertile country into a variety of landscapes . The Mersey 40 was seen winding a broad quiet sheet of water through an expanse of ...
... delightful . A fine lawn sloped away from it studded with clumps of trees , so disposed as to break a soft fertile country into a variety of landscapes . The Mersey 40 was seen winding a broad quiet sheet of water through an expanse of ...
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Page 48 - 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.
Page 50 - ... 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.
Page 40 - ... about it went wrong, and would go wrong, in spite of him. His fences were continually falling to pieces; his cow would either go astray, or get among the cabbages; weeds were sure to grow quicker in his fields than anywhere else; the rain always made a point of setting in just as he had some out-door work to do; so that though his patrimonial estate had dwindled away under his management, acre by acre, until there was little more left than a mere patch of Indian corn and potatoes, yet it was...
Page 45 - 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.
Page 54 - He doubted his own identity, and whether he was himself or another man. In the midst of his bewilderment, the man in the cocked hat demanded who he was, and what was his name ?
Page 46 - On entering the amphitheatre, new objects of wonder presented themselves. On a level spot in the centre was a company of odd-looking personages playing at nine-pins. They were dressed in a quaint outlandish fashion; some wore short doublets, others jerkins, with long knives in their belts, and most of them had enormous breeches, of similar style with that of the guide's.
Page 41 - Rip's sole domestic adherent was his dog Wolf, who was as much henpecked as his master ; for Dame Van Winkle regarded them as companions in idleness, and even looked upon Wolf with an evil eye, as the cause of his master's going so often astray. True it is, in all points of spirit befitting an honorable dog he was as courageous an animal as ever scoured the woods ; but what courage can withstand the ever-during and all-besetting terrors of a woman's tongue?
Page 43 - Vedder, a patriarch of the village, and landlord of the inn, at the door of which he took his seat from morning till night, just moving sufficiently to avoid the sun and keep in the shade of a large tree ; so that the neighbors could tell the hour by his movements as accurately as by a sun-dial.
Page 85 - She is far from the land where her young hero sleeps, And lovers around her are sighing; But coldly she turns from their gaze, and weeps, For her heart in his grave is lying.
Page 56 - 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...