Washington Irving's Sketch BookLongmans, Green, and Company, 1906 - 428 sider |
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... passed away , he went back to his labor on this book of humor . That a work abounding in playful fun should have been written in these hours of sadness may seem strange to some ; but it is among the paradoxes of literature that the ...
... passed away , he went back to his labor on this book of humor . That a work abounding in playful fun should have been written in these hours of sadness may seem strange to some ; but it is among the paradoxes of literature that the ...
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... passing throng , the respectful bow , and the sudden turn to scan him more closely , in- dicated that he was not unknown . Indeed , he was the American of his time universally known . This modest and kindly man was the creator of ...
... passing throng , the respectful bow , and the sudden turn to scan him more closely , in- dicated that he was not unknown . Indeed , he was the American of his time universally known . This modest and kindly man was the creator of ...
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... passed over her and were hurried on our course . As the crashing wreck was sink- ing beneath us , I had a glimpse of two or three half- naked wretches rushing from her cabin ; they just started from their beds to be swallowed shrieking ...
... passed over her and were hurried on our course . As the crashing wreck was sink- ing beneath us , I had a glimpse of two or three half- naked wretches rushing from her cabin ; they just started from their beds to be swallowed shrieking ...
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... passed under the hammer of the auctioneer , and was dispersed about the country . The good people of the vicinity thronged like wreckers to get some part of the noble vessel that had been driven on shore . Did such a scene admit of ...
... passed under the hammer of the auctioneer , and was dispersed about the country . The good people of the vicinity thronged like wreckers to get some part of the noble vessel that had been driven on shore . Did such a scene admit of ...
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... passing traveller . How solemnly they would listen to the contents , as drawled out by Derrick Van Bummel , the schoolmaster , a dapper learned little man , who was not to be daunted by the most gigantic word in the dictionary ; and how ...
... passing traveller . How solemnly they would listen to the contents , as drawled out by Derrick Van Bummel , the schoolmaster , a dapper learned little man , who was not to be daunted by the most gigantic word in the dictionary ; and how ...
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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.