Irvings̓ Sketch BookH. Holt, 1911 - 417 sider |
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Side xxi
... whole into a beautiful domain , a fitting place of retirement and labor for an author in his later years . He did not desire this pleasant retreat solely for himself ; it was to be the home of his remaining brothers and his nieces also ...
... whole into a beautiful domain , a fitting place of retirement and labor for an author in his later years . He did not desire this pleasant retreat solely for himself ; it was to be the home of his remaining brothers and his nieces also ...
Side xxii
... whole face , and render- ing it very attractive ; while if he were about to say any- thing humorous , it would beam forth from his eyes even before the words were spoken . As a young man , his face was exceedingly handsome , and his ...
... whole face , and render- ing it very attractive ; while if he were about to say any- thing humorous , it would beam forth from his eyes even before the words were spoken . As a young man , his face was exceedingly handsome , and his ...
Side xxiv
... whole , from all modern conditions . That which made the strongest appeal to his imagination was the life of the past still evident in the present " the traditionary customs of golden - hearted antiquity . " This appeal he might find in ...
... whole , from all modern conditions . That which made the strongest appeal to his imagination was the life of the past still evident in the present " the traditionary customs of golden - hearted antiquity . " This appeal he might find in ...
Side xxvi
... whole is such as I scarcely know an Eng- lishman that could have written . " Blackwood's Maga- zine , The Edinburgh Review , and The Quarterly were generous in their praises . Rumor ascribed the authorship to Scott . Lord Byron declared ...
... whole is such as I scarcely know an Eng- lishman that could have written . " Blackwood's Maga- zine , The Edinburgh Review , and The Quarterly were generous in their praises . Rumor ascribed the authorship to Scott . Lord Byron declared ...
Side xxvii
... concealed vein of humor that is often playing through the whole , these are among what I aim at , and upon which I felicitate myself in proportion as I think I suc- ceed . " These are words to remember while reading The Sketch Book xxvii.
... concealed vein of humor that is often playing through the whole , these are among what I aim at , and upon which I felicitate myself in proportion as I think I suc- ceed . " These are words to remember while reading The Sketch Book xxvii.
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Side 106 - With fairest flowers, Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave : thou shalt not lack The flower that's like thy face, pale primrose ; nor The azured hare-bell, like thy veins ; no, nor The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Out-sweeten'd not thy breath...
Side 25 - ... curl about his nose, would gravely nod his head in token of perfect approbation. From even this stronghold 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...
Side 34 - ... his way through the crowd, putting them to the right and left with his elbows as he passed, and planting himself before Van Winkle with one arm akimbo, the other resting on his cane, his keen eyes and sharp hat penetrating, as it were, into his very soul, demanded in an austere tone what brought him to the election with a gun on his shoulder and a mob at his heels, and whether he meant to breed a riot in the village. "Alas! gentlemen...
Side 34 - A Tory, a Tory! A spy! A refugee! Hustle him! Away with him!" It was with great difficulty that the self-important man in the cocked hat restored order, and having assumed a tenfold austerity of brow, demanded again of the unknown culprit what he came there for, and whom he was seeking. The poor man humbly assured him that he meant no harm, but merely came there in search of some of his neighbors, who used to keep about the tavern. "Well, who are they? Name them.
Side 364 - His heart began to sink within him ; he endeavored to resume his psalm tune, but his parched tongue clove to the roof of his mouth, and he could not utter a stave. There was something in the moody and dogged silence of this pertinacious companion that was mysterious and appalling. It was soon fearfully accounted for. On mounting a rising ground, which brought the figure of his fellow-traveler in relief against the sky, gigantic in height, and muffled in a cloak, Ichabod was horror-struck, on perceiving...
Side 342 - Hard by the farm-house was a vast barn, that might have served for a church, every window and crevice of which seemed bursting forth with the treasures of the farm.
Side 142 - The very walls are wrought into universal ornament, incrusted with tracery, and scooped into niches, crowded with the statues of saints and martyrs. Stone seems, by the cunning labor of the chisel, to have been robbed of its weight and density, suspended aloft, as if by magic, and the fretted roof achieved with the wonderful minuteness and airy security of a cobweb.
Side 29 - On waking, he found himself on the green knoll whence he had first seen the old man of the glen. He rubbed his eyes. It was a bright, sunny morning. The birds were hopping and twittering among the bushes, and the eagle was wheeling aloft and breasting the pure mountain breeze. "Surely," thought Rip. "I have not slept here all night.
Side 36 - 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?
Side 23 - His children, too, were as ragged and wild as if they belonged to nobody. His son Rip, an urchin begotten in his own likeness, promised to inherit the habits, with the old clothes of his father. He was generally seen trooping like a colt at his mother's heels, equipped in a pair of his father's cast-off...