The Works of Washington Irving ...G. P. Putnam, 1863 |
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... Never did invaded hen - roost make a more vociferous outcry . It was all in vain . The house was sacked and plundered , fire was set to each corner , and in a few moments its blaze shed a baleful light far over the Tappan Sea . The ...
... Never did invaded hen - roost make a more vociferous outcry . It was all in vain . The house was sacked and plundered , fire was set to each corner , and in a few moments its blaze shed a baleful light far over the Tappan Sea . The ...
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... never seen afterwards ; but may be heard plying his oars , as above mentioned , being the Flying Dutchman of the Tappan Sea , doomed to ply between Ka kiat and Spiting Devil until the day of judgment . CHRONICLE III . The revolutionary ...
... never seen afterwards ; but may be heard plying his oars , as above mentioned , being the Flying Dutchman of the Tappan Sea , doomed to ply between Ka kiat and Spiting Devil until the day of judgment . CHRONICLE III . The revolutionary ...
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... never swarming far from the parent hive , but dividing and subdividing their paternal acres as they swarmed . Here were small farms , each having its little portion of mea- dow and corn field ; its orchard of gnarled and sprawling apple ...
... never swarming far from the parent hive , but dividing and subdividing their paternal acres as they swarmed . Here were small farms , each having its little portion of mea- dow and corn field ; its orchard of gnarled and sprawling apple ...
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... never to be acquired from books . Diedrich Knickerbocker soon discover- ed his merit . They had long talks together seated on a broken millstone , heedless of the water and the clatter of the mill ; and to his conference with that ...
... never to be acquired from books . Diedrich Knickerbocker soon discover- ed his merit . They had long talks together seated on a broken millstone , heedless of the water and the clatter of the mill ; and to his conference with that ...
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... pair of them have built be neath my porch , and have reared several broods there , for two years past , their nest being never disturbed . They arrive early in the spring , just when the crocus and the THE BIRDS OF SPRING . 31.
... pair of them have built be neath my porch , and have reared several broods there , for two years past , their nest being never disturbed . They arrive early in the spring , just when the crocus and the THE BIRDS OF SPRING . 31.
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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.