The Beauties of Washington Irving, Esq. ...R. Griffin & Company, 1830 - 316 páginas |
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... occasion it goes hard but she figures as a tenth muse , or fourth grace , even though she should be more illiterate than a Hottentot , and more ungraceful than a dancing bear ! Since my arrival in this country , I have met not less than ...
... occasion it goes hard but she figures as a tenth muse , or fourth grace , even though she should be more illiterate than a Hottentot , and more ungraceful than a dancing bear ! Since my arrival in this country , I have met not less than ...
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... occasion to come in swarms and enliven the castle . All family festivals were commemorated by these good people at the Ba ron's expense ; and when they were filled with good cheer , they would declare that there was nothing on earth so ...
... occasion to come in swarms and enliven the castle . All family festivals were commemorated by these good people at the Ba ron's expense ; and when they were filled with good cheer , they would declare that there was nothing on earth so ...
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... occasion , and the important family with which he was to be connected . He pacified himself , however , with the conclusion that it must have been youthful impa- tience which had induced him thus to spur on sooner than his attendants ...
... occasion , and the important family with which he was to be connected . He pacified himself , however , with the conclusion that it must have been youthful impa- tience which had induced him thus to spur on sooner than his attendants ...
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... occasion to explode , like a barrel of gunpowder , and , in that act , exploded the sun - which , in its flight , by a similar convulsion exploded the earth - which in like guise exploded the moon — and thus , by a concate- nation of ...
... occasion to explode , like a barrel of gunpowder , and , in that act , exploded the sun - which , in its flight , by a similar convulsion exploded the earth - which in like guise exploded the moon — and thus , by a concate- nation of ...
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... occasion for locks and keys , -beheld , by the light of the lantern , a scene that smote his generous heart to the core . On a miserable bed , with pallid and emaciated vi- sage and hollow eyes ; in a room destitute of every convenience ...
... occasion for locks and keys , -beheld , by the light of the lantern , a scene that smote his generous heart to the core . On a miserable bed , with pallid and emaciated vi- sage and hollow eyes ; in a room destitute of every convenience ...
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Página 17 - ... and all-besetting terrors of a woman's tongue? The moment Wolf entered the house his crest fell, his tail drooped to the ground, or curled between his legs, he sneaked about with a gallows air, casting many a sidelong glance at Dame Van Winkle, and at the least flourish of a broomstick or ladle he would fly to the door with yelping precipitation.
Página 14 - In that same village, and in one of these very houses (which, to tell the precise truth, was sadly time-worn and weather-beaten), there lived many years since, while the country was yet a province of Great Britain, a simple, goodnatured fellow, of the name of Rip Van Winkle. He was a descendant of the Van Winkles who figured so gallantly in the chivalrous days of Peter Stuyvesant, and accompanied him to the siege of fort Christina.
Página 204 - ... and laying it on those of the strong. Your mere puny stripling, that winced at the least flourish of the rod, was passed by with indulgence; but the claims of justice were satisfied by inflicting a double portion on some little tough, wrongheaded, broad-skirted Dutch urchin, who sulked and swelled and grew dogged and sullen beneath the birch. All this he called "doing his duty by their parents; " and he never inflicted a chastisement without following it by the assurance, so consolatory to the...
Página 204 - From hence the low murmur of his pupils' voices, conning over their lessons, might be heard in a drowsy summer's day like the hum of a bee-hive, interrupted now and then by the authoritative voice of the master in the tone of menace or command, or...
Página 62 - In his devouring mind's eye, he pictured to himself every roasting-pig running about with a pudding in his belly, and an apple in his mouth ; the pigeons were snugly put to bed in a comfortable pie, and tucked in with a coverlet of crust; the geese were swimming in their own gravy; and the ducks pairing cosily in dishes, like snug married couples, with a decent competency of onion sauce.
Página 216 - What sighs have been wafted after that ship ! what prayers offered up at the deserted fireside of home ! How often has the mistress, the wife, the mother, pored over the daily news to catch some casual intelligence of this rover of the deep ! How has expectation darkened into anxiety — anxiety into dread — and dread into despair ! Alas ! not one memento may ever return for love to cherish. All that may ever be known is that she sailed from her port "and was never heard of more.
Página 16 - 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.
Página 16 - Morning, noon, and night, her tongue was incessantly going, and everything he said or did was sure to produce a torrent of household eloquence. Rip had but one way of replying to all lectures of the kind, and that, by frequent use, had grown into a habit. He shrugged his shoulders, shook his head, cast up his eyes, but said nothing.
Página 18 - When anything that was read or related displeased him, he was observed to smoke his pipe vehemently, and to send forth short, frequent and angry puffs; but when pleased, he would...
Página 15 - Certain it is, that he was a great favorite among all the good wives of the village, who, as usual with the amiable sex, took his part in all family squabbles, and never failed, whenever they talked those matters over in their evening gossipings, to lay all the blame on Dame Van Winkle.