Washington Irving's Sketch BookLongmans, Green, and Company, 1906 - 428 sider |
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... nature of it which would enable me to make those satisfactory accounts between us , without which I really feel no satisfaction in engaging — but I will do all I can to promote their circulation , and shall be most ready to attend to ...
... nature of it which would enable me to make those satisfactory accounts between us , without which I really feel no satisfaction in engaging — but I will do all I can to promote their circulation , and shall be most ready to attend to ...
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... nature , he had already devised a way of aiding me . A weekly periodical , he went on to inform me , was about to be set up in Edinburgh , supported by the most respect- able talents , and amply furnished with all the necessary ...
... nature , he had already devised a way of aiding me . A weekly periodical , he went on to inform me , was about to be set up in Edinburgh , supported by the most respect- able talents , and amply furnished with all the necessary ...
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... nature been more prodigally lavished . Her mighty lakes , like oceans of liquid silver ; her mountains , with their ... natural scenery . But Europe held forth the charms of storied and poet- ical association . There were to be seen the ...
... nature been more prodigally lavished . Her mighty lakes , like oceans of liquid silver ; her mountains , with their ... natural scenery . But Europe held forth the charms of storied and poet- ical association . There were to be seen the ...
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... nature seemed to have thrown an insurmountable barrier . We one day descried some shapeless object drifting at a distance . At sea , every thing that breaks the monot- ony of the surrounding expanse attracts attention . It proved to be ...
... nature seemed to have thrown an insurmountable barrier . We one day descried some shapeless object drifting at a distance . At sea , every thing that breaks the monot- ony of the surrounding expanse attracts attention . It proved to be ...
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... Nature seems to delight in disap- pointing the assiduities of art , with which it would rear legitimate dulness to maturity ; and to glory in the vigor and luxuriance of her chance productions . She scatters the seeds of genius to the ...
... Nature seems to delight in disap- pointing the assiduities of art , with which it would rear legitimate dulness to maturity ; and to glory in the vigor and luxuriance of her chance productions . She scatters the seeds of genius to the ...
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Side 40 - It could not be from the want of assiduity or perseverance ; for he would sit on a wet rock, with a rod as long and heavy as a Tartar's lance, and fish all day without a murmur, even though he should not be encouraged by a single nibble.
Side 48 - ... in the country round. Their dress, too, was of a different fashion from that to which he was accustomed. They all stared at him with equal marks of surprise, and whenever they cast their eyes upon him, invariably stroked their chins. The constant recurrence...
Side 365 - ... the air. A stately squadron of snowy geese were riding in an adjoining pond, convoying whole fleets of ducks; regiments of turkeys were gobbling through the farmyard, and guinea fowls fretting about it, like ill-tempered housewives, with their peevish discontented cry. Before the barn door strutted the gallant cock, that pattern of a husband, a warrior, and a fine gentleman, clapping his burnished wings, and crowing in the pride and gladness of his heart — sometimes tearing up the earth with...
Side 81 - She is far from the land where her young hero sleeps, And lovers around her are sighing : But coldly she turns from their gaze, and weeps, For her heart in his grave is lying.
Side 157 - ... then be sure that every unkind look, every ungracious word, every ungentle action, will come thronging back upon thy memory and knocking dolefully at thy soul — then be sure that thou wilt lie down sorrowing and repentant on the grave, and utter the unheard groan, and pour the unavailing tear ; more deep, more bitter, because unheard and unavailing.
Side 365 - ... fretting about it, like ill-tempered housewives, with their peevish discontented cry. Before the barn door strutted the gallant cock, that pattern of a husband, a warrior, and a fine gentleman, clapping his burnished wings, and crowing in the pride and gladness of his heart — sometimes tearing up the earth with his feet, and then generously calling his ever-hungry family of wives and children to enjoy the rich morsel which he had discovered.
Side 156 - ... lavished upon us, almost unheeded in the daily intercourse of intimacy; there it is that we dwell upon the tenderness, the solemn, awful tenderness of the parting scene; the bed of death, with all its stifled griefs, its noiseless attendance, its mute, watchful assiduities.
Side 363 - Hollow, as they sometimes called him. He would delight them equally by his anecdotes of witchcraft, and of the direful omens and portentous sights and sounds in the air, which prevailed in the earlier times of Connecticut ; and would frighten them...
Side 191 - There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things : our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors.
Side 380 - What passed at this interview I will not pretend to say, for in fact I do not know. Something, however, I fear me, must have gone wrong, for he certainly sallied forth, after no very great interval, with an air quite desolate and chapfallen.