The Works of Washington Irving, Том 2G. P. Putnam, 1853 |
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... spirit which had obtained for him the well- merited appellation of the Prince of Booksellers . Thus , under the kind and cordial auspices of Sir Walter Scott , I began my literary career in Europe ; and I feel that I am but discharging ...
... spirit which had obtained for him the well- merited appellation of the Prince of Booksellers . Thus , under the kind and cordial auspices of Sir Walter Scott , I began my literary career in Europe ; and I feel that I am but discharging ...
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... spirit , and how completely it can give its own impress to surrounding objects . Like his own Lorenzo De ' Medici , on whom he seems to have fixed his eye as on a pure model of antiquity , he has interwoven the history of his life with ...
... spirit , and how completely it can give its own impress to surrounding objects . Like his own Lorenzo De ' Medici , on whom he seems to have fixed his eye as on a pure model of antiquity , he has interwoven the history of his life with ...
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... your sacred fellowship restore : When , freed from earth , unlimited its powers , Mind shall with mind direct communion hold , And kindred spirits meet to part no more , THE WIFE . The treasures of the deep are not ROSCOE . 20 29.
... your sacred fellowship restore : When , freed from earth , unlimited its powers , Mind shall with mind direct communion hold , And kindred spirits meet to part no more , THE WIFE . The treasures of the deep are not ROSCOE . 20 29.
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... spirits are soothed and relieved by domestic endearments , and his self- respect kept alive by finding , that though all abroad is darkness and humiliation , yet there is still a little world of love at home , of which he is the monarch ...
... spirits are soothed and relieved by domestic endearments , and his self- respect kept alive by finding , that though all abroad is darkness and humiliation , yet there is still a little world of love at home , of which he is the monarch ...
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... spirit of a man , and prostrate him in the dust , seem to call forth all the energies of the softer sex , and give such intrepidity and elevation to their character , that at times it approaches to sublimity . Nothing can be more ...
... spirit of a man , and prostrate him in the dust , seem to call forth all the energies of the softer sex , and give such intrepidity and elevation to their character , that at times it approaches to sublimity . Nothing can be more ...
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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.