The Works of Washington Irving ...G. P. Putnam, 1863 |
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... light far over the Tappan Sea . The invaders then pounced upon the blooming Laney Van Tassel , the beauty of the Roost , and endea- vored to bear her off to the boat . But here was the real tug of war . The mother , the aunt , and the ...
... light far over the Tappan Sea . The invaders then pounced upon the blooming Laney Van Tassel , the beauty of the Roost , and endea- vored to bear her off to the boat . But here was the real tug of war . The mother , the aunt , and the ...
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... and gayety generally go hand in hand among the French and their descend- ants , the crazy mansion soon resounded with loud gossip and light- hearted laughter . As the steamboat paused a short time at the village THE CREOLE VILLAGE . 45.
... and gayety generally go hand in hand among the French and their descend- ants , the crazy mansion soon resounded with loud gossip and light- hearted laughter . As the steamboat paused a short time at the village THE CREOLE VILLAGE . 45.
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... light step and gay costume , of scenes in ancient France , where taste in dress comes natural to every class of females . The trim bodice and colored petticoat , and little apron , with its pockets to receive the hands when in an ...
... light step and gay costume , of scenes in ancient France , where taste in dress comes natural to every class of females . The trim bodice and colored petticoat , and little apron , with its pockets to receive the hands when in an ...
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... light we would take in getting up wanton panics , in some dusky part of the wood ; scampering like frightened deer ; pausing to take breath ; renewing the panic , and scampering off again , wild with fictitious terror ! Our greatest ...
... light we would take in getting up wanton panics , in some dusky part of the wood ; scampering like frightened deer ; pausing to take breath ; renewing the panic , and scampering off again , wild with fictitious terror ! Our greatest ...
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... light of day , as nectar , and my soul seemed to bathe with ecstasy in the deep blue of a summer sky . In these wanderings , nothing occurred to jar my feelings , or bring me back to the realities of life . There is a repose in our ...
... light of day , as nectar , and my soul seemed to bathe with ecstasy in the deep blue of a summer sky . In these wanderings , nothing occurred to jar my feelings , or bring me back to the realities of life . There is a repose in our ...
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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.