The Works of Washington Irving ...G. P. Putnam, 1863 |
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... considered the revolution a mere rebellion , soon to be put down by his majesty's forces . A number of these took refuge within the British lines , joined the military bands of refu gees , and became pioneers or leaders to foraging ...
... considered the revolution a mere rebellion , soon to be put down by his majesty's forces . A number of these took refuge within the British lines , joined the military bands of refu gees , and became pioneers or leaders to foraging ...
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... considered oracular , and their word is law . The inhabitants , moreover , have none of that eagerness for gain , and rage for improvement , which keep our people continually on the move , and our country towns incessantly in a state of ...
... considered oracular , and their word is law . The inhabitants , moreover , have none of that eagerness for gain , and rage for improvement , which keep our people continually on the move , and our country towns incessantly in a state of ...
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... considered on a parallel with the sages of antiquity , and looked down with a sentiment of pity on the feebler intellects of my sisters , who could comprehend nothing of metaphysics . It is true , when I attempted to study them by my ...
... considered on a parallel with the sages of antiquity , and looked down with a sentiment of pity on the feebler intellects of my sisters , who could comprehend nothing of metaphysics . It is true , when I attempted to study them by my ...
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... considered me almost as wise and infallible as I considered myself . This high opinion of me was strengthened by a declamatory hab- it , which made me an oracle and orator at the domestic board . The time was now at hand , however ...
... considered me almost as wise and infallible as I considered myself . This high opinion of me was strengthened by a declamatory hab- it , which made me an oracle and orator at the domestic board . The time was now at hand , however ...
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... considered them beneath the attention of a philosopher , and never would venture to read them , lest I should lessen my mental superiority in the eyes of my sisters . Nay , I had taken up a work of the kind , now and then , when I knew ...
... considered them beneath the attention of a philosopher , and never would venture to read them , lest I should lessen my mental superiority in the eyes of my sisters . Nay , I had taken up a work of the kind , now and then , when I knew ...
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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.