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... authors , I pitched upon Tom Thumb and Tom Hickathrift , authors indeed more proper to adorn the shelves of Bodley or the Vatican , than to be confined to the retirement and obscurity of a private study . I have perused the first of ...
... authors , I pitched upon Tom Thumb and Tom Hickathrift , authors indeed more proper to adorn the shelves of Bodley or the Vatican , than to be confined to the retirement and obscurity of a private study . I have perused the first of ...
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... author tells us , during his peregrinations , and published in James the First's reign , in 1611 , there is a reference to this old , old story : - " Tom Thumbe is dumbe , untill the pudding creepe , In which he was entombed , then out ...
... author tells us , during his peregrinations , and published in James the First's reign , in 1611 , there is a reference to this old , old story : - " Tom Thumbe is dumbe , untill the pudding creepe , In which he was entombed , then out ...
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... author of Goody Two - shoes . And the style in which this charming tale is written , combined with the popularity it has achieved , favours the notion . The circumstance , too , that " The History of Goody Two - shoes " appeared in 1765 ...
... author of Goody Two - shoes . And the style in which this charming tale is written , combined with the popularity it has achieved , favours the notion . The circumstance , too , that " The History of Goody Two - shoes " appeared in 1765 ...
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... author have been preserved ; the story being merely shortened and simplified by the omission of political and other allusions , that are beyond the comprehension of children . The whole story is founded on the old German superstition ...
... author have been preserved ; the story being merely shortened and simplified by the omission of political and other allusions , that are beyond the comprehension of children . The whole story is founded on the old German superstition ...
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... Authors . Compiled and Analytically Arranged by HENRY SOUTHGATE , Author of " Many Thoughts of Many Minds , " " Musings about Men , " & c . Royal 8vo , cloth gilt , gilt edges , price 10s . 6d . ; elegant morocco , bevelled boards , 215 ...
... Authors . Compiled and Analytically Arranged by HENRY SOUTHGATE , Author of " Many Thoughts of Many Minds , " " Musings about Men , " & c . Royal 8vo , cloth gilt , gilt edges , price 10s . 6d . ; elegant morocco , bevelled boards , 215 ...
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Страница 417 - 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 416 - 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!
Страница 415 - 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 416 - ... green knoll, covered with mountain herbage, that crowned the brow of a precipice. From an opening between the trees he could overlook all the lower country for many a mile of rich woodland. He saw at a distance the lordly Hudson, far, far below him, moving on its silent but majestic course, with the reflection of a purple cloud, or the sail of a lagging bark,* here and there sleeping on its glassy bosom, and at last losing itself in the blue highlands.
Страница 413 - When the weather is fair and settled, they are clothed in blue and purple, and print their bold outlines on the clear evening sky , but sometimes, when the rest of the landscape is cloudless, they will gather a hood of gray vapors about their summits, which, in the last rays of the setting sun, will glow and light up like a crown of glory.
Страница 424 - Rip was equally at a loss to comprehend the question; when a 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...
Страница 415 - ... and to do such little odd jobs as 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. In fact, he declared it was of no use to work on his farm ; it was the most pestilent little piece of ground in the whole country ; everything about it went wrong, and would go wrong, in spite of him.