The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, Bind 2J. Murray, 1820 - 419 sider |
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Side 55
... Keep it from all evil spirits , Fairies , weezels , rats , and ferrets : From curfew - time To the next prime . CARTWRIGHT . It was a brilliant moonlight night , but ex- tremely cold ; our chaise whirled rapidly over the frozen ground ...
... Keep it from all evil spirits , Fairies , weezels , rats , and ferrets : From curfew - time To the next prime . CARTWRIGHT . It was a brilliant moonlight night , but ex- tremely cold ; our chaise whirled rapidly over the frozen ground ...
Side 56
Washington Irving. tee of the old school , and prides himself upon keeping up something of old English hospita- lity . He is a tolerable specimen of what you will rarely meet with now - a - days in its purity , the old English country ...
Washington Irving. tee of the old school , and prides himself upon keeping up something of old English hospita- lity . He is a tolerable specimen of what you will rarely meet with now - a - days in its purity , the old English country ...
Side 58
... of simple joy at seeing her young master . Her husband , it seemed , was up at the house keeping Christmas eve in the servants ' hall ; they could not do without him , as he was the best hand at a song and story in the 58 CHRISTMAS EVE .
... of simple joy at seeing her young master . Her husband , it seemed , was up at the house keeping Christmas eve in the servants ' hall ; they could not do without him , as he was the best hand at a song and story in the 58 CHRISTMAS EVE .
Side 69
... keep a young girl next him in a continual agony of stifled laughter , in spite of her awe of the reproving looks of her mother , who sat opposite . Indeed , he was the idol of the younger part of the company , who laughed at every thing ...
... keep a young girl next him in a continual agony of stifled laughter , in spite of her awe of the reproving looks of her mother , who sat opposite . Indeed , he was the idol of the younger part of the company , who laughed at every thing ...
Side 72
... keep out the wind and the weather , & c . The supper had disposed every one to gaiety , and an old harper was summoned from the servants ' hall , where he had been strum- ming all the evening , and to all appearance comforting himself ...
... keep out the wind and the weather , & c . The supper had disposed every one to gaiety , and an old harper was summoned from the servants ' hall , where he had been strum- ming all the evening , and to all appearance comforting himself ...
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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...