The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, Bind 2J. Murray, 1820 - 419 sider |
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Side 33
... bosoms ; and which , when resorted to , furnish forth the pure element of domestic felicity . Heart The pitchy gloom without makes the heart dilate on entering the room filled with the glow and warmth of the evening fire . The ruddy ...
... bosoms ; and which , when resorted to , furnish forth the pure element of domestic felicity . Heart The pitchy gloom without makes the heart dilate on entering the room filled with the glow and warmth of the evening fire . The ruddy ...
Side 36
... bosom of domestic life . Society has acquired a more enlightened and elegant tone ; but it has lost many of its strong local pecu- liarities , its homebred feelings , its honest fire- side delights . The traditionary customs of golden ...
... bosom of domestic life . Society has acquired a more enlightened and elegant tone ; but it has lost many of its strong local pecu- liarities , its homebred feelings , its honest fire- side delights . The traditionary customs of golden ...
Side 37
... bosom . The prepara- tions making on every side for the social board that is again to unite friends and kindred- the presents of good cheer passing and re- passing , those tokens of regard and quickeners of kind feelings - the ...
... bosom . The prepara- tions making on every side for the social board that is again to unite friends and kindred- the presents of good cheer passing and re- passing , those tokens of regard and quickeners of kind feelings - the ...
Side 38
... is the time . Amidst the general call to happiness , the bustle of the spirits , and stir of the affections , which prevail at this period , what bosom can remain insensible ? It is , indeed , the season of 38 CHRISTMAS .
... is the time . Amidst the general call to happiness , the bustle of the spirits , and stir of the affections , which prevail at this period , what bosom can remain insensible ? It is , indeed , the season of 38 CHRISTMAS .
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... , a huge roll of coloured handkerchief about his neck , know- ingly knotted and tucked in at the bosom ; and has in summer time a large bouquet of flowers in his buttonhole ; the present , most probably , 44 THE STAGE COACH .
... , a huge roll of coloured handkerchief about his neck , know- ingly knotted and tucked in at the bosom ; and has in summer time a large bouquet of flowers in his buttonhole ; the present , most probably , 44 THE STAGE COACH .
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Side 60 - Lear. The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweet-heart, see, they bark at me.
Side 108 - Just in the nick the Cook knock'd thrice, And all the waiters in a trice His summons did obey; Each serving man, with dish in hand, March'd boldly up like our train'd band, Presented, and away.
Side 348 - It is said by some to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper, whose head had been carried away by a cannon-ball, in some nameless battle during the revolutionary war; and who is ever and anon seen by the country folk, hurrying along in the gloom of night, as if on the wings of the wind.
Side 378 - Ichabod to attend a merrymaking or "quilting frolic" to be held that evening at Mynheer Van Tassel's; and having delivered his message with that air of importance and effort at fine language which a Negro is apt to display on petty embassies of the kind, he dashed over the brook and was seen scampering away up the hollow, full of the importance and hurry of his mission.
Side 75 - Since ghost there is none to affright thee. Let not the dark thee cumber ; What though the moon does slumber? The stars of the night Will lend thee their light, Like tapers clear without number.
Side 356 - ... and absolute sway with which he lorded it in his little empire, the school, and became wonderfully gentle and ingratiating. He found favor in the eyes of the mothers by petting the children, particularly the youngest, and like the lion bold, which whilom so magnanimously the lamb did hold, he would sit with a child on one knee and rock a cradle with his foot for whole hours together.
Side 213 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat ; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, " Logan is the friend of white men.
Side 367 - It was one of those spacious farmhouses, with high-ridged but lowly-sloping roofs, built in the style handed down from the first Dutch settlers. The low projecting eaves forming a piazza along the front, capable of being closed up in bad weather. Under this were hung flails, harness, various utensils of husbandry, and nets for fishing in the neighboring river.
Side 19 - I could only hear, now and then, the distant voice of the priest repeating the evening service, and the faint responses of the choir ; these paused for a time, and all was hushed. The stillness, the desertion and obscurity that were gradually prevailing around, gave a deeper and more solemn interest to the place : For in the silent grave no conversation.
Side 374 - Thus while the busy dame bustled about the house, or plied her spinning-wheel at one end of the piazza...