Rip Van Winkle: And Other American Essays from The Sketch-bookHoughton, Mifflin, 1891 - 99 страници |
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... caused his story to supplant earlier o popular mind , so that Rip Van Winkle has p familiar speech , and allusions to him are clearly by thousands who have never read Irving's st recent dramatizing of the story , though followi line ...
... caused his story to supplant earlier o popular mind , so that Rip Van Winkle has p familiar speech , and allusions to him are clearly by thousands who have never read Irving's st recent dramatizing of the story , though followi line ...
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... cause of his master's going so often astray . True it is , in all points of spirit befitting an honorable dog , he was as courageous an animal as ever scoured the woods but what courage can withstand the ever - during and all ...
... cause of his master's going so often astray . True it is , in all points of spirit befitting an honorable dog , he was as courageous an animal as ever scoured the woods but what courage can withstand the ever - during and all ...
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... causing the grass to spring , the fruits to ripen , and the corn to grow an inch an hour . If displeased , however , she would brew up clouds black as ink , sitting in the midst of them like a bottle - bellied spider in the midst of its ...
... causing the grass to spring , the fruits to ripen , and the corn to grow an inch an hour . If displeased , however , she would brew up clouds black as ink , sitting in the midst of them like a bottle - bellied spider in the midst of its ...
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... causing them to walk in a continual reverie . They are given to all kinds of marvelous beliefs ; are subject to trances and visions , and fre- quently see strange sights , and hear music and voices in the air . The whole neighborhood ...
... causing them to walk in a continual reverie . They are given to all kinds of marvelous beliefs ; are subject to trances and visions , and fre- quently see strange sights , and hear music and voices in the air . The whole neighborhood ...
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... causes more perplexity to mortal man than ghosts , goblins , and the whole race of witches put together , and that was — a woman . Among the musical disciples who assembled , one evening in each week , to receive his instructions in ...
... causes more perplexity to mortal man than ghosts , goblins , and the whole race of witches put together , and that was — a woman . Among the musical disciples who assembled , one evening in each week , to receive his instructions in ...
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Страница 3 - Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as years of matrimony rolled on; a tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
Страница 16 - 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.
Страница 1 - 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.
Страница 11 - WASHINGTON. 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 1 - The children of the village, too, would shout with joy whenever he approached. He assisted at their sports, made their playthings, taught them to fly kites and shoot marbles, and told them long stories of ghosts, witches, and Indians. Whenever he went dodging about the village, he was surrounded by a troop of them, hanging on his skirts, clambering on his back, and playing a thousand tricks on him with impunity; and not a dog would bark at him throughout the neighborhood.
Страница 11 - ... village. A troop of strange children ran at his heels, hooting after him, and pointing at his gray beard. The dogs, too, not one of which he recognized for an old acquaintance, barked at him as he passed. The very village was altered : it was larger and more populous. There were rows of houses which he had never seen before, and those which had been his familiar haunts had disappeared. Strange names were over the doors, strange faces at the windows : everything was strange.
Страница 5 - thy mistress leads thee a dog's life of it ; but never mind, my lad, whilst I live thou shalt never want a friend to stand by thee ! " Wolf would wag his tail, look wistfully in his master's face, and if dogs can feel pity, I verily believe he reciprocated the sentiment with all his heart.
Страница 7 - Passing through the ravine, they came to a hollow, like a small amphitheatre, surrounded by perpendicular precipices, over the brinks of which impending trees shot their branches, so that you only caught glimpses of the azure sky and the bright evening cloud.
Страница 25 - ... so that though a thief might get in with perfect ease, he would find some embarrassment in getting out : an idea most probably borrowed by the architect, Yost Van Houten, from the mystery of an eel-pot.
Страница vii - At the foot of these fairy mountains, the voyager may have descried the light smoke curling up from a village, whose shingle-roofs gleam among the trees, just where the blue tints of the upland melt away into the fresh green of the nearer landscape.