Knickerbocker Stories from the Old Dutch Days of New YorkNewson, 1897 - 140 страници |
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... hills , yet as we go up the Hudson to - day , even in the rail- road train , there is a certain witchery in the very names of the stations . This is really the thing we should feel in reading these sketches . It is but a poor thing to ...
... hills , yet as we go up the Hudson to - day , even in the rail- road train , there is a certain witchery in the very names of the stations . This is really the thing we should feel in reading these sketches . It is but a poor thing to ...
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... hill on the opposite side of the Hudson , many of the old folks , even at the present day , speak English with an ' accent , and the Dominie preaches in Dutch ; and so completely is the hereditary love of quiet and silence maintained ...
... hill on the opposite side of the Hudson , many of the old folks , even at the present day , speak English with an ' accent , and the Dominie preaches in Dutch ; and so completely is the hereditary love of quiet and silence maintained ...
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... is covered with canals as other countries are with roads . 4 Zion is the hill on which Jerusalem is built . The name is often used symboli- cally for Heaven . II a . - NEW AMSTERDAM UNDER VAN AS DESCRIBED 28 KNICKERBOCKER STORIES .
... is covered with canals as other countries are with roads . 4 Zion is the hill on which Jerusalem is built . The name is often used symboli- cally for Heaven . II a . - NEW AMSTERDAM UNDER VAN AS DESCRIBED 28 KNICKERBOCKER STORIES .
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... hills , and sparkling the landscape with a thousand dewy gems ; while along the borders of the river were seen heavy masses of mist , which , like midnight caitiffs , disturbed at his approach , made a sluggish retreat , rolling in ...
... hills , and sparkling the landscape with a thousand dewy gems ; while along the borders of the river were seen heavy masses of mist , which , like midnight caitiffs , disturbed at his approach , made a sluggish retreat , rolling in ...
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... hills into the Hudson , had its petty sachem , who ruled over a hand's breadth of forest on either side , and had ... hill in the neighborhood , that has WOLFERT'S ROOST . 59.
... hills into the Hudson , had its petty sachem , who ruled over a hand's breadth of forest on either side , and had ... hill in the neighborhood , that has WOLFERT'S ROOST . 59.
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Страница 101 - Rip Van Winkle yonder, leaning against the tree." Rip looked, and beheld a precise counterpart of himself, as he went up the mountain, apparently as lazy, and certainly as ragged. The poor fellow was now completely confounded. He doubted his own identity, and whether he was himself or another man. In the midst of his bewilderment, the man in the cocked hat demanded who he was, and what was his name. "God knows!
Страница 98 - He recognized on the sign, however, the ruby face of King George, under which he had smoked so many a peaceful pipe, but even this was singularly metamorphosed. The red coat was changed for one of blue and buff, a sword was held in the hand instead of a sceptre, the head was decorated with a cocked hat, and underneath was painted in large characters, GENERAL WASHINGTON.
Страница 99 - In place of these, a lean biliouslooking fellow, with his pockets full of handbills, was haranguing vehemently about rights of citizens — election — members of Congress — liberty — Bunker's hill — heroes of seventy-six — and other words which were a perfect Babylonish jargon to the bewildered Van Winkle.
Страница 101 - 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?
Страница 101 - ... the cocked hat retired with some precipitation. At this critical moment a fresh comely woman pressed through the throng to get a peep at the gray-bearded man. She had a chubby child in her arms, which, frightened at his looks, began to cry. "Hush, Rip," cried she, "hush, you little fool; the old man won't hurt you.
Страница 92 - Eip lay musing on this scene; evening was gradually advancing, the mountains began to throw their long blue shadows over the valleys; he saw that it would be dark long before he could reach the village, and he heaved a heavy sigh when he thought of encountering the terrors of Dame Van Winkle. As he was about to descend, he heard a voice from a distance, hallooing, "Rip Van Winkle!
Страница 117 - It was one of those spacious farmhouses with high-ridged but lowly-sloping roofs, built in the style handed down from the first Dutch settlers, the low projecting eaves forming a piazza along the front capable of being closed up in bad weather.
Страница 105 - A pleasing land of drowsy -head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye ; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky...
Страница 89 - ... of him. His fences were continually falling to pieces ; his cow would either go astray, or get among the cabbages; weeds were sure to grow quicker in his fields than anywhere else ; the rain always made a point of setting in just as he had some out-door work to do ; so that though his patrimonial estate had dwindled away under his management, acre by acre, until there was little more left than a mere patch of Indian corn and potatoes, yet it was the worst conditioned farm in the neighborhood.
Страница 99 - ... 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?