Irvingiana: A Memorial of Washington IrvingC.B. Richardson, 1860 - 64 páginas |
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... Tarrytown - Church Services - The Procession . III . PROCEEDINGS OF THE NEW YORK BOARD OF ALDERMEN AND COUNCILMEN . THE MAYOR'S MESSAGE AND RESOLUTIONS . IV . RESOLUTIONS OF THE ATHENÆUM CLUB .. SPEECH OF THE REV . DR . Osgood . V ...
... Tarrytown - Church Services - The Procession . III . PROCEEDINGS OF THE NEW YORK BOARD OF ALDERMEN AND COUNCILMEN . THE MAYOR'S MESSAGE AND RESOLUTIONS . IV . RESOLUTIONS OF THE ATHENÆUM CLUB .. SPEECH OF THE REV . DR . Osgood . V ...
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... Tarrytown , where for twenty - one years the great author had resided , and to almost every inhabitant of which he was a personal friend . Indeed , the unanimity with which the people of that vicinity flocked to do honor to the ...
... Tarrytown , where for twenty - one years the great author had resided , and to almost every inhabitant of which he was a personal friend . Indeed , the unanimity with which the people of that vicinity flocked to do honor to the ...
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... Tarrytown . That occa- sion was the dedication of the monument erected to the memory of Paulding , Williams , and Van Wert , on the spot where those patriots captured Major André . Certainly on no previous occasion Rev. Wm . D ...
... Tarrytown . That occa- sion was the dedication of the monument erected to the memory of Paulding , Williams , and Van Wert , on the spot where those patriots captured Major André . Certainly on no previous occasion Rev. Wm . D ...
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... Tarrytown . At twelve o'clock the little church was crowd- ed to repletion , and quite a panic was occasioned by a report that the gallery was threatening to fall . This report originated in the fact that one of the wooden pillars ...
... Tarrytown . At twelve o'clock the little church was crowd- ed to repletion , and quite a panic was occasioned by a report that the gallery was threatening to fall . This report originated in the fact that one of the wooden pillars ...
Página xxv
... Tarrytown . He bits of pastoral scenery in the vicinity of New always was very fond of and exceedingly popular York - the brook and cove of Sleepy Hollow , among children , and therefore took a lively in- with its pond reflecting the ...
... Tarrytown . He bits of pastoral scenery in the vicinity of New always was very fond of and exceedingly popular York - the brook and cove of Sleepy Hollow , among children , and therefore took a lively in- with its pond reflecting the ...
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Abbotsford acquaintance Addison ADDRESS Allston American anecdote appeared Astor Astor Library ATHENÆUM CLUB beauty Brevoort career character charm church Columbus Creighton death deceased delight dinner Dutch early England English fame feel funeral genial genius Geoffrey Crayon GEORGE WASHINGTON GREENE Goldsmith grace Granada grave heart HENRY THEODORE TUCKERMAN honor Hudson humor ICHABOD CRANE interest Irving pointed Irving's kind Knickerbocker labors land late letter literary literature living London look loved memory mind Moore mourning N. P. WILLIS native nature never occasion Passaic passed peculiar poet published remarked replied residence resolutions Rip Van Winkle scene Sketch Book Sleepy Hollow Society Spain speak spirit style Sunnyside Tarrytown taste THEODORE TILTON thought tion took tribute Walter Scott Washington Irving William words writings written York youth
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Página xlviii - and was startled by the roar of my own gun, as it broke the Sabbath stillness around, and was prolonged and reverberated by the angry echoes. If ever I should wish for a retreat whither I might steal from the world and its distractions, and dream quietly away the remnant of a troubled life, I know of none
Página vii - small elderly gentleman, dressed in an old black coat and cocked hat, by the name of Knickerbocker" etc., who had left his lodgings at the Columbian Hotel in Mulberry street ; then a statement that the old gentleman had left " a very curious kind of a written book in his room,
Página xvii - If ever I should wish for a retreat, whither I might steal from the world and its distractions, and dream quietly away the remainder of a troubled life, 1 know of none more promising than this little valley.
Página viii - York. I am sensible that, as a stranger to American parties and politics, I must lose much of the concealed satire of the piece; but I must own that, looking at the simple and obvious meaning only, I have never read any thing so closely resembling the stile of Dean Swift as the annals of
Página viii - Knickerbocker. I have been employed these few evenings in reading them aloud to Mrs. S. and two ladies who are our guests, and our sides have been absolutely sore with laughing. I think, too, there are passages which indicate that the author possesses powers of a
Página xxiv - mine eyes shall behold, and not another. " We brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. The Lord gave, and the Lord hath
Página xxiv - Behold the innumerable host Of angels clothed in light ; Behold the spirits of the just, Whose faith is changed to sight. Behold the blest assembly there, Whose names are writ in heaven ; Hear,
Página xlvi - 1 mio autore ; Tu se' solo colui da cui io tolsi Lo bello stile che in
Página xxxvi - Every reader has his first book. I mean to say, one book among all others, which in early youth first fascinates his imagination, and at once excites and satisfies the desires of his mind. To me this first book was the Sketch
Página xx - faith the bark that trusted to its waves. I gloried in its simple, quiet, majestic, epic flow, ever »straight forward, or, if forced aside for once by opposing mountains, struggling bravely through them, and resuming its onward march. Behold, thought I, an emblem of a good man's course through life, ever simple, open, and direct; or if,