The Sketch-bookG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1848 |
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Side 24
... master spirit , and how completely it can give its own impress to surrounding objects . Like his own Lorenzo De ' Medici , on whom he seems to have fixed his eye as on a pure model of antiquity , he has interwoven the history of his ...
... master spirit , and how completely it can give its own impress to surrounding objects . Like his own Lorenzo De ' Medici , on whom he seems to have fixed his eye as on a pure model of antiquity , he has interwoven the history of his ...
Side 47
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
Side 49
... master's face , and if dogs can feel pity , I verily believe he reciprocated the sentiment with all his heart . In a long ramble of the kind on a fine autumnal day , Rip had unconsciously scrambled to one of the highest parts of the ...
... master's face , and if dogs can feel pity , I verily believe he reciprocated the sentiment with all his heart . In a long ramble of the kind on a fine autumnal day , Rip had unconsciously scrambled to one of the highest parts of the ...
Side 50
... master's side , looking fearfully down into the glen . Rip now felt a vague apprehension stealing over him ; he looked anxiously in the same direction , and per- ceived a strange figure slowly toiling up the rocks , and bending under ...
... master's side , looking fearfully down into the glen . Rip now felt a vague apprehension stealing over him ; he looked anxiously in the same direction , and per- ceived a strange figure slowly toiling up the rocks , and bending under ...
Side 154
... Master Edward Honeyball , the " bully - rock " of the establish- ment . It is one of those little taverns which abound in the heart of the city , and form the centre of gossip and intelligence of the neighborhood . We entered the bar ...
... Master Edward Honeyball , the " bully - rock " of the establish- ment . It is one of those little taverns which abound in the heart of the city , and form the centre of gossip and intelligence of the neighborhood . We entered the bar ...
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Side 58 - Nicholas Vedder ^ why, he is dead and gone these eighteen years ! There was a wooden tombstone in the church-yard that used to tell all about him, but that's rotten and gone too.
Side 50 - ... still more surprised at the singularity of the stranger's appearance. He was a short, square-built old fellow, with thick bushy hair, and a grizzled beard. His dress was of the antique Dutch fashion: a cloth jerkin strapped round the waist, several...
Side 47 - Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as years of matrimony rolled on; a tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
Side 43 - WHOEVER has made a voyage up the Hudson must remember the Kaatskill mountains. They are a dismembered branch of the great Appalachian family, and are seen away to the west of the river, swelling up to a noble height, and lording it over the surrounding country.
Side 44 - In that same village, and in one of these very houses, (which, to tell the precise truth, was sadly time-worn and weather-beaten,) there lived many years since, while the country was yet a province of Great Britain, a simple good-natured fellow, of the name of Rip Van Winkle. He was a descendant of the Van Winkles who figured so gallantly in the chivalrous days of Peter Stuyvesant, and accompanied him to the siege of fort Christina.
Side 444 - The sun gradually wheeled his broad disk down into the west The wide bosom of the Tappan Zee lay motionless and glassy, excepting that here and there a gentle undulation waved and prolonged the blue shadow of the distant mountain. A few amber clouds floated in the sky, without a breath of air to move them. The horizon was of a fine golden tint, changing gradually into a pure apple green, and from that into the deep blue of the mid-heaven. A slanting ray lingered on the woody crests of the precipices...
Side 52 - ... of excellent Hollands. He was naturally a thirsty soul, and was soon tempted to repeat the draught. One taste provoked another, and he reiterated his visits to the flagon so often that at length his senses were overpowered, his eyes swam in his head, his head gradually declined, and he fell into a deep sleep.
Side 435 - ... mouth ; the pigeons were snugly put to bed in a comfortable pie, and tucked in with a coverlet of crust ; the geese were swimming in their own gravy ; and the ducks pairing cosily in dishes, like snug married couples, with a decent competency of onion sauce. In the porkers he saw carved out the future sleek side of bacon, and juicy relishing ham ; not a turkey but he beheld daintily trussed up, with its gizzard under its wing, and, peradventure, a necklace of savory sausages...
Side 47 - 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.
Side 434 - 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.