The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, Bind 2J. Murray, 1820 - 419 sider |
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Side 32
... green , and heaven with its deep delicious blue and its cloudy magnificence , all fill us with mute but exquisite delight , and we revel in the luxury of mere sensation . But in the depth of winter , when nature lies despoiled of every ...
... green , and heaven with its deep delicious blue and its cloudy magnificence , all fill us with mute but exquisite delight , and we revel in the luxury of mere sensation . But in the depth of winter , when nature lies despoiled of every ...
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... green decorations of bay and holly — the cheerful fire glanced its rays through the lattice , inviting the passenger to raise the latch , and join the gossip knot huddled round the hearth , beguiling the long evening with legendary ...
... green decorations of bay and holly — the cheerful fire glanced its rays through the lattice , inviting the passenger to raise the latch , and join the gossip knot huddled round the hearth , beguiling the long evening with legendary ...
Side 39
... green to memory beyond the sterile waste of years ; and the idea of home , fraught with the fragrance of home- dwelling joys , reanimates the drooping spirit— as the Arabian breeze will sometimes waft the freshness of the distant fields ...
... green to memory beyond the sterile waste of years ; and the idea of home , fraught with the fragrance of home- dwelling joys , reanimates the drooping spirit— as the Arabian breeze will sometimes waft the freshness of the distant fields ...
Side 52
... green . Hams , tongues , and flitches of bacon , were suspended from the ceiling ; a smoke jack made its cease- less clanking beside the fire place , and a clock ticked in one corner . A well - scoured deal table extended along one side ...
... green . Hams , tongues , and flitches of bacon , were suspended from the ceiling ; a smoke jack made its cease- less clanking beside the fire place , and a clock ticked in one corner . A well - scoured deal table extended along one side ...
Side 99
... green which adorns an English landscape even in mid - winter . Large tracts of smiling verdure contrasted with the dazzling whiteness of the shaded slopes and hollows . Every sheltered bank , on which the broad rays rested , yielded its ...
... green which adorns an English landscape even in mid - winter . Large tracts of smiling verdure contrasted with the dazzling whiteness of the shaded slopes and hollows . Every sheltered bank , on which the broad rays rested , yielded its ...
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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...