The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, Том 2J. Murray, 1820 - 419 страници |
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... talk , seemed principally bound to the mansions of relations or friends to eat the Christmas dinner . It was loaded also with hampers of game , and baskets and boxes of delicacies ; and hares hung dangling their long ears about the ...
... talk , seemed principally bound to the mansions of relations or friends to eat the Christmas dinner . It was loaded also with hampers of game , and baskets and boxes of delicacies ; and hares hung dangling their long ears about the ...
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... talk , possessed of more virtues than any steed since the days of Bucephalus . How he could trot ! how he could run ! and then such leaps as he would take there was not a hedge in the whole country that he could not clear . They were ...
... talk , possessed of more virtues than any steed since the days of Bucephalus . How he could trot ! how he could run ! and then such leaps as he would take there was not a hedge in the whole country that he could not clear . They were ...
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... talks slang , and is an embryo Coachey . Perhaps it might be owing to the pleasing serenity that reigned in my own mind , that I fancied I saw cheerfulness in every countenance throughout the journey . A Stage Coach , how- ever ...
... talks slang , and is an embryo Coachey . Perhaps it might be owing to the pleasing serenity that reigned in my own mind , that I fancied I saw cheerfulness in every countenance throughout the journey . A Stage Coach , how- ever ...
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... talking at once , and overpowering him with questions about home , and with school anecdotes . I looked after them with a feeling in which I do not know whether pleasure or melancholy pre- dominated ; for I was reminded of those days ...
... talking at once , and overpowering him with questions about home , and with school anecdotes . I looked after them with a feeling in which I do not know whether pleasure or melancholy pre- dominated ; for I was reminded of those days ...
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... talk French and Italian - draw landscapes - sing very tolerably - dance divine- ly ; but , above all , he had been wounded at Waterloo - what girl of seventeen , well read in poetry and romance , could resist such a mirror of chivalry ...
... talk French and Italian - draw landscapes - sing very tolerably - dance divine- ly ; but , above all , he had been wounded at Waterloo - what girl of seventeen , well read in poetry and romance , could resist such a mirror of chivalry ...
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Страница 60 - Lear. The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweet-heart, see, they bark at me.
Страница 108 - Just in the nick the Cook knock'd thrice, And all the waiters in a trice His summons did obey; Each serving man, with dish in hand, March'd boldly up like our train'd band, Presented, and away.
Страница 348 - It is said by some to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper, whose head had been carried away by a cannon-ball, in some nameless battle during the revolutionary war; and who is ever and anon seen by the country folk, hurrying along in the gloom of night, as if on the wings of the wind.
Страница 378 - Ichabod to attend a merrymaking or "quilting frolic" to be held that evening at Mynheer Van Tassel's; and having delivered his message with that air of importance and effort at fine language which a Negro is apt to display on petty embassies of the kind, he dashed over the brook and was seen scampering away up the hollow, full of the importance and hurry of his mission.
Страница 75 - Since ghost there is none to affright thee. Let not the dark thee cumber ; What though the moon does slumber? The stars of the night Will lend thee their light, Like tapers clear without number.
Страница 356 - ... and absolute sway with which he lorded it in his little empire, the school, and became wonderfully gentle and ingratiating. He found favor in the eyes of the mothers by petting the children, particularly the youngest, and like the lion bold, which whilom so magnanimously the lamb did hold, he would sit with a child on one knee and rock a cradle with his foot for whole hours together.
Страница 213 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat ; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, " Logan is the friend of white men.
Страница 367 - It was one of those spacious farmhouses, with high-ridged but lowly-sloping roofs, built in the style handed down from the first Dutch settlers. The low projecting eaves forming a piazza along the front, capable of being closed up in bad weather. Under this were hung flails, harness, various utensils of husbandry, and nets for fishing in the neighboring river.
Страница 19 - I could only hear, now and then, the distant voice of the priest repeating the evening service, and the faint responses of the choir ; these paused for a time, and all was hushed. The stillness, the desertion and obscurity that were gradually prevailing around, gave a deeper and more solemn interest to the place : For in the silent grave no conversation.
Страница 374 - Thus while the busy dame bustled about the house, or plied her spinning-wheel at one end of the piazza...