The Works of Washington Irving, Том 2G. P. Putnam, 1853 |
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... hand for a second volume . Several days having elapsed without any communication from Mr. Murray , I addressed a note to him , in which I construed his silence into a tacit rejection of my work , and begged that the numbers I had left ...
... hand for a second volume . Several days having elapsed without any communication from Mr. Murray , I addressed a note to him , in which I construed his silence into a tacit rejection of my work , and begged that the numbers I had left ...
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... hand , he will encourage me to further enterprise ; and it will be something like trading with a gipsy for the fruits of his prowlings , who may at one time have nothing but a wooden bowl to offer , and at another time a silver tankard ...
... hand , he will encourage me to further enterprise ; and it will be something like trading with a gipsy for the fruits of his prowlings , who may at one time have nothing but a wooden bowl to offer , and at another time a silver tankard ...
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... hand . " The first volume of the Sketch Book was put to press in London as I had resolved , at my own risk , by a bookseller unknown to fame , and without any of the usual arts by which a work is trumpeted into notice . Still some ...
... hand . " The first volume of the Sketch Book was put to press in London as I had resolved , at my own risk , by a bookseller unknown to fame , and without any of the usual arts by which a work is trumpeted into notice . Still some ...
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... hand , and bring home their portfolios filled with sketches , I am disposed to get up a few for the entertainment of my friends . When , however , I look over the hints and contents , I neglected the regular exercises of the school THE ...
... hand , and bring home their portfolios filled with sketches , I am disposed to get up a few for the entertainment of my friends . When , however , I look over the hints and contents , I neglected the regular exercises of the school THE ...
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... hand , and bring home their portfolios filled with sketches , I am disposed to get up a few for the entertainment of my friends . When , however , I look over the hints and memorandums I have taken down for the purpose , my THE AUTHOR'S ...
... hand , and bring home their portfolios filled with sketches , I am disposed to get up a few for the entertainment of my friends . When , however , I look over the hints and memorandums I have taken down for the purpose , my THE AUTHOR'S ...
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Страница 47 - On waking, he found himself on the green knoll whence he had first seen the old man of the glen. He rubbed his eyes. It was a bright, sunny morning. The birds were hopping and twittering among the bushes, and the eagle was wheeling aloft and breasting the pure mountain breeze. "Surely," thought Rip. "I have not slept here all night.
Страница 54 - 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.
Страница 45 - He was surprised to see any human being in this lonely and unfrequented place, but supposing it to be some one of the neighborhood in need of his assistance, he hastened down to yield it. On nearer approach he was still more surprised at the singularity of the stranger's appearance. He was a short square-built old fellow, with thick bushy hair, and a grizzled beard.
Страница 50 - It was with some difficulty that he found the way to his own house, which he approached with silent awe, expecting every moment to hear the shrill voice of Dame Van Winkle. He found the house gone to decay — the roof fallen in, the windows shattered, and the doors off the hinges. A half-starved dog, that looked like "Wolf, was skulking about it. Rip called him by name, but the cur snarled, showed his teeth, and passed on. This was an unkind cut indeed. —
Страница 219 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Страница 55 - 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...
Страница 53 - Nicholas Vedder ! why, he is dead and gone these eighteen years ! There was a wooden tombstone in the churchyard that used to tell all about him, but that's rotten and gone too.
Страница 51 - Instead of the great tree that used to shelter the quiet little Dutch inn of yore, there now was reared a tall naked pole, with something on the top that looked like a red nightcap...
Страница 38 - WHOEVER has made a voyage up the Hudson must remember the Kaatskill mountains. They are a dismembered branch of the great Appalachian family, and are seen away to the west of the river, swelling up to a noble height, and lording it over the surrounding country.
Страница 300 - Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus 'gins arise, His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes: With every thing that pretty is, My lady sweet, arise: Arise, arise.