The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gentn. [pseud.]D. McKay, 1892 - 406 sider |
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Side 13
... regular exercises of the school . How wistfully would I wander about the pier - heads in fine weather , and watch the parting ships , bound to distant climes - with what longing eyes would 13 THE AUTHOR'S ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF.
... regular exercises of the school . How wistfully would I wander about the pier - heads in fine weather , and watch the parting ships , bound to distant climes - with what longing eyes would 13 THE AUTHOR'S ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF.
Side 14
... wander over the scenes of renowned achievement - to tread , as it were , in the foot- steps of antiquity - to loiter about the ruined castle - to meditate on the falling tower - to escape , in short , from the commonplace realities of ...
... wander over the scenes of renowned achievement - to tread , as it were , in the foot- steps of antiquity - to loiter about the ruined castle - to meditate on the falling tower - to escape , in short , from the commonplace realities of ...
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... wander , whither he may be driven by the uncertain currents of existence ; or when he may return ; or whether it may ever be his lot to revisit the scenes of his childhood ? I said that at sea all is vacancy ; I should correct the ...
... wander , whither he may be driven by the uncertain currents of existence ; or when he may return ; or whether it may ever be his lot to revisit the scenes of his childhood ? I said that at sea all is vacancy ; I should correct the ...
Side 63
... wandering me- chanic , the Manchester and Birmingham agent , to be her oracles respecting America . From such sources she is con- tent to receive her information respecting a country in a singular state of moral and physical development ...
... wandering me- chanic , the Manchester and Birmingham agent , to be her oracles respecting America . From such sources she is con- tent to receive her information respecting a country in a singular state of moral and physical development ...
Side 68
... wander farther and farther from the parental roof , and lament the waywardness of the parent that would repel the affections of the child . Short - sighted and injudicious , however , as the conduct of England may be in this system of ...
... wander farther and farther from the parental roof , and lament the waywardness of the parent that would repel the affections of the child . Short - sighted and injudicious , however , as the conduct of England may be in this system of ...
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Side 51 - He determined to revisit the scene of the last evening's gambol, and if he met with any of the party, to demand his dog and gun. As he rose to walk, he found himself stiff in the joints, and wanting in his usual activity. " These mountain beds do not agree with me...
Side 348 - This is the prettiest low-born lass that ever Ran on the green-sward : nothing she does or seems But smacks of something greater than herself, Too noble for this place.
Side 55 - Rip's heart died away at hearing of these sad changes in his home and friends, and finding himself thus alone in the world. Every answer puzzled him too, by treating of such enormous lapses of time, and of matters which he could not understand: war — congress — Stony Point — he had no courage to ask after any more friends, but cried out in despair, "Does nobody here know Rip Van Winkle?" "Oh, Rip Van Winkle!" exclaimed two or three. "Oh, to be sure! that's Rip Van Winkle yonder, leaning against...
Side 53 - He entered the house, which, to tell the truth, Dnme Van Winkle had always kept in neat order. It was empty, forlorn, and apparently abandoned. This desolateness overcame all his connubial fears — he called loudly for his wife and children — the lonely chambers rang for a moment with his voice, and then all again was silence. He now hurried forth, and hastened to his old resort, the village inn, but it too was gone. A large rickety wooden...
Side 62 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks. Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam...
Side 42 - At the foot of these fairy mountains, the voyager may have descried the light smoke curling up from a village, whose shingleroofs gleam among the trees, just where the blue tints of the upland melt away into the fresh green of the nearer landscape. It is a little village, of great antiquity, having been founded by some of the Dutch colonists, in the early times of the province...
Side 49 - Their visages, too, were peculiar; one had a large beard, broad face, and small piggish eyes; the face of another seemed to consist entirely of nose, and was surmounted by a white sugar-loaf hat set off with a little red cock's tail. They all had beards, of various shapes and colors. There was one who seemed to be the commander.
Side 58 - He recollected Rip at once, and corroborated his story in the most satisfactory manner. He assured the company that it was a fact, handed down from his ancestor, the historian, that the Kaatskill mountains had always been haunted by strange beings. That it was affirmed that the great Hendrick Hudson, the first discoverer of the river and country, kept a kind of vigil there every twenty years, with his crew of the Halfmoon ; being permitted in this way to revisit the scenes of his enterprise, and...
Side 49 - As they ascended, Rip every now and then heard long rolling peals, like distant thunder, that seemed to issue out of a deep ravine, or rather cleft, between lofty rocks, toward which their rugged path conducted.
Side 47 - On the other side he looked down into a deep mountain glen, wild, lonely, and shagged, the bottom filled with fragments from the impending cliffs, and scarcely lighted by the reflected rays of the setting sun. For some time Rip lay musing on this scene ; evening was gradually advancing ; the mountains began to throw their long blue shadows over the valleys ; he saw that it would be dark long before he could reach the village, and he heaved a heavy sigh when he thought «f encountering the terrors...