The Works of Washington Irving ...G. P. Putnam, 1863 |
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... arms ; so that , by dint of a little hard fighting here , and hocus pocus ( or diplomacy ) there , he man- aged to extend his boundary line from field to field and stream to stream , until it brought him into collision with the powerful ...
... arms ; so that , by dint of a little hard fighting here , and hocus pocus ( or diplomacy ) there , he man- aged to extend his boundary line from field to field and stream to stream , until it brought him into collision with the powerful ...
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... arms ; that is to say , to mops , broom- sticks , shovels , tongs , and all kinds of domestic weapons ; for un- luckily , the great piece of ordnance , the goose - gun , was absent with its owner . Above all , a vigorous defence was ...
... arms ; that is to say , to mops , broom- sticks , shovels , tongs , and all kinds of domestic weapons ; for un- luckily , the great piece of ordnance , the goose - gun , was absent with its owner . Above all , a vigorous defence was ...
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... arms , like the Grecian youth in Ovid , as if 1 would take in and embrace the balmy atmosphere . * The song of the birds melted me to tenderness . I would lie by the side of some rivulet , for hours , and form garlands of the flowers on ...
... arms , like the Grecian youth in Ovid , as if 1 would take in and embrace the balmy atmosphere . * The song of the birds melted me to tenderness . I would lie by the side of some rivulet , for hours , and form garlands of the flowers on ...
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... arms . Happy harp ! But where was the being that reigned in this little empire of delicacies ? -that breathed poetry and song , and dwelt among birds and flowers , and rose - colored curtains ? Suddenly I heard the hall door fly open ...
... arms . Happy harp ! But where was the being that reigned in this little empire of delicacies ? -that breathed poetry and song , and dwelt among birds and flowers , and rose - colored curtains ? Suddenly I heard the hall door fly open ...
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... arms of another husband him who has loved thee so tenderly . " " Never ! never ! " cried the duchess . " Never will I cleave to another ! Alas , that my lord should think me capable of such inconstancy ! ' The worthy and wife - ridden ...
... arms of another husband him who has loved thee so tenderly . " " Never ! never ! " cried the duchess . " Never will I cleave to another ! Alas , that my lord should think me capable of such inconstancy ! ' The worthy and wife - ridden ...
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Abencerrage Adalantado Alcayde ancient arms bank beautiful became beheld Bermudas bosom caravel castle cavalier commander Communipaw companion Count Count of Angouleme court cried daughter delighted Don Fernando Don Luis Don Manuel door duchess Duke Duke of Orleans eyes fairy fancy father forest fortune Foulquerre France French gave Glencoe grand hand heard heart honor horse Indians inhabitants island Julia Julia Somerville kind king ladies land length livres looked louis-d'ors mansion Marquis de Créqui mind morning never night noble once palace Palais Royal Paris passed phantom island Pluto Prince Prince de Ligne Regent river Roost round royal sachem seated seemed Seneschal Serafina Seven Cities shore sister Sleepy Hollow Somerville soon spirit story thing thought tion took trees turned Vanderscamp village warriors whole wife Wild Goose Wolfert Acker worthy Xarisa young youth
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Página 56 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Página 333 - And terror on my aching sight : the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a dullness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand and let me hear thy voice ; Nay — quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.
Página 113 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things: For no kind of traffic Would I admit; no name of magistrate; Letters should not be known ; riches, poverty, And use of service, none; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none; No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil; No occupation; all men idle, all, And women too, but innocent and pure : No sovereignty— Seb.
Página 341 - Knowledge before — a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy.
Página 34 - But in this genial interval, nature is in all her freshness and fragrance: "the rains are over and gone, the flowers appear upon the earth, the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in the land.
Página 106 - For the kind spring which but salutes us here, Inhabits there and courts them all the year ; Ripe fruits and blossoms on the same trees live, At once they promise what at once they give ; So sweet the air, so moderate the clime, None sickly lives or dies before his time ; Heaven sure has kept this spot of earth uncurst To show how all things were created first.
Página 35 - I might have addressed him in the words of Logan to the cuckoo : Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear Thou hast no sorrow in thy note, No winter in thy year. Oh 1 could I fly, I'd fly with thee ; "We'd make, on joyful wing, Our annual visit round the globe, . Companions of the spring...
Página 341 - Break, Phantsie, from thy cave of cloud, And wave thy purple wings, Now all thy figures are allowed, And various shapes of things. Create of airy forms a stream ; It must have blood and...
Página 36 - The riceswamps of the South invite him. He gorges himself among them almost to bursting ; he can scarcely fly for corpulency. He has once more changed his name, and is now the famous Rice-bird of the Carolinas. Last stage of his career : behold him spitted, with dozens of his corpulent companions, and served up, a vaunted dish, on the table of some Southern gastronome.
Página 101 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.