The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. [pseud.] ...A. and W. Galignani, 1824 |
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... flowers tastefully disposed about the door , and on the grass plot in front . A small wicket gate opened upon a footpath that wound through some shrubbery to the door . Just as we approached , we heard the sound of music -Leslie grasped ...
... flowers tastefully disposed about the door , and on the grass plot in front . A small wicket gate opened upon a footpath that wound through some shrubbery to the door . Just as we approached , we heard the sound of music -Leslie grasped ...
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... flowers ; every spot capable of vege- tation has its grass - plot and flower - bed ; and every square its mimic park , laid out with pic- turesque taste , and gleaming with refreshing verdure . Those who see the Englishman only in town ...
... flowers ; every spot capable of vege- tation has its grass - plot and flower - bed ; and every square its mimic park , laid out with pic- turesque taste , and gleaming with refreshing verdure . Those who see the Englishman only in town ...
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... his hand ; and yet the operations of art which produce the effect are scarcely to be perceived . The cherishing and training of some trees ; the cautious prun- ing of others ; the nice distribution of flowers and 128 RURAL LIFE.
... his hand ; and yet the operations of art which produce the effect are scarcely to be perceived . The cherishing and training of some trees ; the cautious prun- ing of others ; the nice distribution of flowers and 128 RURAL LIFE.
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... flower - bed bordered with snug box , the woodbine trained up against the wall , and hanging its blossoms about the lattice , the pot of flowers in the window , the holly provident- ly planted about the house , to cheat winter of its ...
... flower - bed bordered with snug box , the woodbine trained up against the wall , and hanging its blossoms about the lattice , the pot of flowers in the window , the holly provident- ly planted about the house , to cheat winter of its ...
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... nature that abound in the British poets - that have conti- nued down from a the Flower and the Leaf » of Chaucer , and have brought into our closets - all the freshness and fragrance of the dewy landscape 132 RURAL LIFE.
... nature that abound in the British poets - that have conti- nued down from a the Flower and the Leaf » of Chaucer , and have brought into our closets - all the freshness and fragrance of the dewy landscape 132 RURAL LIFE.
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Страница 88 - Nicholas Vedder?" There was a silence for a little while, when an old man replied, in a thin piping voice, "Nicholas Vedder! why, he is dead and gone these eighteen years! There was a wooden tombstone in the church-yard that used to tell all about him, but that's rotten and gone too.
Страница 289 - 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 12 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
Страница 83 - 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 80 - He now suspected that the grave roysters of the mountain had put a trick upon him, and, having dosed him with liquor, had robbed him of his gun. Wolf, too, had disappeared, but he might have strayed away after a squirrel or partridge. He whistled after him and shouted his name, but all in vain; the echoes repeated his whistle and shout, but no dog was to be seen.
Страница 274 - This is the prettiest low-born lass that ever Ran on the green-sward : nothing she does or seems But smacks of something greater than herself, Too noble for this place.
Страница 84 - ... 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 87 - ... knowing, self-important old gentleman, in a sharp cocked hat, made his way through the crowd, putting them to the right and left with his elbows as he passed, and planting himself before Van Winkle, with one arm akimbo, the other resting on his cane, his keen eyes and sharp hat penetrating, as it were, into his very soul, demanded, in an austere tone, "what brought him to the election with a gun on his shoulder and a mob at his heels, and whether he meant to breed a riot in the village?
Страница 78 - ... countenances, that his heart turned within him, and his knees smote together. His companion now emptied the contents of the keg into large flagons, and made signs to him to wait upon the company. He obeyed with fear and trembling; they quaffed the liquor in profound silence, and then returned to their game.
Страница 316 - ... 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.