The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, Volume 2J. Murray, 1820 - 419 páginas |
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... kind of dusty splendour . From between the arcades the eye glanced up to a bit of blue sky or a passing cloud ; and beheld the sun - gilt pinnacles of the abbey towering into the azure heaven . As I paced the cloisters , sometimes ...
... kind of dusty splendour . From between the arcades the eye glanced up to a bit of blue sky or a passing cloud ; and beheld the sun - gilt pinnacles of the abbey towering into the azure heaven . As I paced the cloisters , sometimes ...
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... kind of reverie which a strain of music is apt sometimes to in- spire : the shadows of evening were gradually thickening around me ; the monuments began to cast deeper and deeper gloom ; and the distant clock again gave token of the ...
... kind of reverie which a strain of music is apt sometimes to in- spire : the shadows of evening were gradually thickening around me ; the monuments began to cast deeper and deeper gloom ; and the distant clock again gave token of the ...
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... kind of platform , and close around it are the sepulchres of various kings and queens . From this eminence the eye looks down be- tween pillars and funeral trophies to the chapels and chambers below , crowded with tombs ; where warriors ...
... kind of platform , and close around it are the sepulchres of various kings and queens . From this eminence the eye looks down be- tween pillars and funeral trophies to the chapels and chambers below , crowded with tombs ; where warriors ...
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... kind feelings - the evergreens distributed about houses and churches , emblems of peace and gladness - all these have the most pleasing effect in producing fond associations , and kind- ling benevolent sympathies . Even the sound of the ...
... kind feelings - the evergreens distributed about houses and churches , emblems of peace and gladness - all these have the most pleasing effect in producing fond associations , and kind- ling benevolent sympathies . Even the sound of the ...
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... kind of odd jobs , for the privilege of battening on the drip- pings of the kitchen and the leakage of the tap- room . These all look up to him as to an oracle ; treasure up his cant phrases ; echo his opinions about horses and other ...
... kind of odd jobs , for the privilege of battening on the drip- pings of the kitchen and the leakage of the tap- room . These all look up to him as to an oracle ; treasure up his cant phrases ; echo his opinions about horses and other ...
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abbey ancient antiquated Baltus Van Tassel beautiful bosom Bracebridge Brom Bones brook Canonchet character Charlecot Christmas church companion customs dance dark delight dish distant door face fancied favourite feelings festivity fire forest Frank Bracebridge gathered ghost goblin grave green hall hand haunted head hear heard heart holyday honour horse humour hung Ichabod Ichabod Crane Indian Izaak Walton John Bull Justice Shallow kind knight-errant lady Lambs land Little Britain living look mansion Master Simon ment merry mind mingled monuments Narrhagansets nature neighbourhood neighbours night old English old family old gentleman parson passed Philip POKANOKET pride quiet round rustic Sachem santry savage scene seemed Shakespeare side Sleepy Hollow sometimes song sound spirit Squire steed story Stratford thing thought tion tomb trees tribes turn village Wampanoags wandering warrior Wassail Westminster Abbey whole wild window worthy young
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Página 60 - Lear. The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweet-heart, see, they bark at me.
Página 108 - Just in the nick the Cook knock'd thrice, And all the waiters in a trice His summons did obey; Each serving man, with dish in hand, March'd boldly up like our train'd band, Presented, and away.
Página 348 - It is said by some to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper, whose head had been carried away by a cannon-ball, in some nameless battle during the revolutionary war; and who is ever and anon seen by the country folk, hurrying along in the gloom of night, as if on the wings of the wind.
Página 378 - Ichabod to attend a merrymaking or "quilting frolic" to be held that evening at Mynheer Van Tassel's; and having delivered his message with that air of importance and effort at fine language which a Negro is apt to display on petty embassies of the kind, he dashed over the brook and was seen scampering away up the hollow, full of the importance and hurry of his mission.
Página 75 - Since ghost there is none to affright thee. Let not the dark thee cumber ; What though the moon does slumber? The stars of the night Will lend thee their light, Like tapers clear without number.
Página 356 - ... and absolute sway with which he lorded it in his little empire, the school, and became wonderfully gentle and ingratiating. He found favor in the eyes of the mothers by petting the children, particularly the youngest, and like the lion bold, which whilom so magnanimously the lamb did hold, he would sit with a child on one knee and rock a cradle with his foot for whole hours together.
Página 213 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat ; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, " Logan is the friend of white men.
Página 367 - 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. Under this were hung flails, harness, various utensils of husbandry, and nets for fishing in the neighboring river.
Página 19 - I could only hear, now and then, the distant voice of the priest repeating the evening service, and the faint responses of the choir ; these paused for a time, and all was hushed. The stillness, the desertion and obscurity that were gradually prevailing around, gave a deeper and more solemn interest to the place : For in the silent grave no conversation.
Página 374 - Thus while the busy dame bustled about the house, or plied her spinning-wheel at one end of the piazza...