The sketch book, illustr. with 120 engravings |
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... picture of active , yet simple and imitable virtues , which are within every man's reach , but which , unfortunately , are not exercised by many , or this world would be a paradise . But his private life is peculiarly worthy the ...
... picture of active , yet simple and imitable virtues , which are within every man's reach , but which , unfortunately , are not exercised by many , or this world would be a paradise . But his private life is peculiarly worthy the ...
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... learning . Pigmies rummaging the armory of a giant , and contending for the possession of weapons which they could not wield . We might picture to ourselves some knot of speculators , debating with calculating brow over 38 THE SKETCH BOOK .
... learning . Pigmies rummaging the armory of a giant , and contending for the possession of weapons which they could not wield . We might picture to ourselves some knot of speculators , debating with calculating brow over 38 THE SKETCH BOOK .
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... picture that I could not gainsay , so we walked on in silence . hardson After turning from the main road up a narrow lane , so thick- ly shaded with forest trees as to give it a complete air of seclu- sion , we came in sight of the ...
... picture that I could not gainsay , so we walked on in silence . hardson After turning from the main road up a narrow lane , so thick- ly shaded with forest trees as to give it a complete air of seclu- sion , we came in sight of the ...
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... picture out with the illusions of their fancies ; but I would cautiously receive his account of his im- mediate neighbors , and of those nations with which he is in habits of most frequent intercourse . However I might be dis posed to ...
... picture out with the illusions of their fancies ; but I would cautiously receive his account of his im- mediate neighbors , and of those nations with which he is in habits of most frequent intercourse . However I might be dis posed to ...
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... pictures in his mind the future landscape . The sterile spot grows into loveliness under his hand ; and yet the operations of art which produce the effect are scarcely to be per- ceived . The cherishing and training of some trees ; the ...
... pictures in his mind the future landscape . The sterile spot grows into loveliness under his hand ; and yet the operations of art which produce the effect are scarcely to be per- ceived . The cherishing and training of some trees ; the ...
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Страница 70 - There was, as usual, a crowd of folk about the door, but none that Rip recollected. The very character of the people seemed changed. There was a busy, bustling, disputatious tone about it instead of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquillity.
Страница 58 - ... their less obliging husbands would not do for them. In a word, Rip was ready to attend to anybody's business but his own; but as to doing family duty and keeping his farm in order, he found it impossible.
Страница 175 - Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet, sitting in my Dolphin chamber, at the round table, by a sea-coal fire, on Wednesday, in Whitsun week, when the prince broke thy head for liking his father to a singing-man of Windsor ; thou didst swear to me then, as I was washing thy wound, to marry me, and make me my lady, thy wife.
Страница 198 - Lay a garland on my hearse, Of the dismal yew; Maidens, willow branches bear; Say I died true: My love was false, but I was firm From my hour of birth. Upon my buried body lie Lightly, gentle earth!
Страница 199 - With fairest flowers, Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave : thou shalt not lack The flower that's like thy face, pale primrose ; nor The azured hare-bell, like thy veins ; no, nor The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Out-sweeten'd not thy breath...
Страница 73 - The name of the child, the air of the mother, the tone of her voice, all awakened a train of recollections in his mind. "What is your name, my good woman ? " asked he. * "Judith Gardenier.
Страница 62 - When anything that was read or related displeased him, he was observed to smoke his pipe vehemently, and to send forth short, frequent, and angry puffs ; but when pleased, he would...
Страница 55 - Every change of season, every change of weather, indeed every hour of the day, produces some change in the magical hues and shapes of these mountains, and 56 they are regarded by all the good wives, far and near, as perfect barometers.
Страница 59 - Rip Van Winkle, however, was one of those happy mortals, of foolish, well-oiled dispositions, who take the world easy, eat white bread or brown, whichever can be got with least thought or trouble, and would rather starve on a penny than work for a pound.
Страница 63 - He was after his favorite sport of squirrel-shooting, and the still solitudes had echoed and re-echoed with the reports of his gun. Panting and fatigued, he threw himself, late in the afternoon, on a green knoll covered with mountain herbage, that crowned the brow of a precipice.