The Sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Esq, Volume 2John Murray, 1834 - 4 páginas |
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... sometimes heard in the profound repose of the country , " telling the night watches to his feathery dames , " was thought by the common people to announce the approach of this sacred festival : - : - " Some say that ever ' gainst that ...
... sometimes heard in the profound repose of the country , " telling the night watches to his feathery dames , " was thought by the common people to announce the approach of this sacred festival : - : - " Some say that ever ' gainst that ...
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... Sometimes he delivers a hare or pheasant ; sometimes jerks a small parcel or newspaper to the door of a public house ; and sometimes , with knowing leer and words of sly VOL . II . C import , hands to some half - blushing half - THE ...
... Sometimes he delivers a hare or pheasant ; sometimes jerks a small parcel or newspaper to the door of a public house ; and sometimes , with knowing leer and words of sly VOL . II . C import , hands to some half - blushing half - THE ...
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... sometimes that he had not been born a few centuries earlier , when England was itself , and had its peculiar manners and customs . As he lives at some distance from the main road , in rather a lonely part of the country , without any ...
... sometimes that he had not been born a few centuries earlier , when England was itself , and had its peculiar manners and customs . As he lives at some distance from the main road , in rather a lonely part of the country , without any ...
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... sometimes the root of a tree , brought into the house with great ceremony , on Christmas eve , laid in the fire - place , and lighted with the brand of last year's clog . While it lasted there was great drinking , singing , and telling ...
... sometimes the root of a tree , brought into the house with great ceremony , on Christmas eve , laid in the fire - place , and lighted with the brand of last year's clog . While it lasted there was great drinking , singing , and telling ...
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... sometimes visiting one branch , and sometimes another quite remote ; as is often the case with gentlemen of extensive connections and small fortunes in England . He had a chirping buoyant disposition , always enjoy- ing the present ...
... sometimes visiting one branch , and sometimes another quite remote ; as is often the case with gentlemen of extensive connections and small fortunes in England . He had a chirping buoyant disposition , always enjoy- ing the present ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
ancient antiquated Avon Baltus Van Tassel battle of Camperdown beautiful bosom Brom Bones brook Canonchet Charlecot charm cheer Christmas church churchyard companion cottage cudgel customs dance dark delight dish door face fancied favourite feelings festivity fire forest Frank Bracebridge gathered ghost goblin grave green hall hand haunted head heard heart holyday honest honour horse humour hung Ichabod Ichabod Crane Indian Izaak Walton John Bull Justice Shallow kind knight-errant lady Lambs land Little Britain look Lord mansion Master Simon ment merry mind nature neighbourhood neighbours night observed old English old family old gentleman parson passed peacock Philip POKANOKET poor pride quiet round rustic savage scene seemed Shakspeare side Sleepy Hollow sometimes song sound spirit Squire steed story Stratford stream thee thing Thomas Lucy thought tion trees tribes turn village Wampanoags wandering warrior Wassail whole wild window worthy young
Passagens conhecidas
Página 136 - Hark ! hark ! the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus 'gins arise, His steeds to water at those springs, On chaliced flowers that lies. And winking mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes ; With every thing that pretty bin : My lady sweet, arise ! Arise ! arise ! Indeed the whole country about here is poetic ground : every thing is associated with the idea of Shakspeare.
Página 10 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
Página 129 - Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbeare To dig the dust enclosed here. Blessed be he that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones.
Página 306 - Gunpowder sprang upon the bridge; he thundered over the resounding planks; he gained the opposite side; and now Ichabod cast a look behind to see if his pursuer should vanish, according to rule, in a flash of fire and brimstone. Just then he saw the goblin rising in his stirrups and in the very act of hurling his head at him. Ichabod endeavored to dodge the horrible missile, but too late.
Página 300 - In the centre of the road stood an enormous tulip-tree, which towered like a giant above all the other trees of the neighborhood, and formed a kind of landmark. Its limbs were gnarled and fantastic, large enough to form trunks for ordinary trees, twisting down almost to the earth, and rising again into the air.
Página 271 - Hollow, as they sometimes called him. He would delight them equally by his anecdotes of witchcraft, and of the direful omens and portentous sights and sounds in the air, which prevailed in the earlier times of...
Página 266 - Indeed it behooved him to keep on good terms with his pupils. The revenue arising from his school was small, and would have been scarcely sufficient to furnish him with daily bread, for he was a huge feeder, and, though lank, had the dilating powers of an anaconda ; but to help out his maintenance he was, according to country custom in those parts, boarded and lodged at the houses of the farmers whose children he instructed.
Página 40 - Her eyes the glow-worm lend thee, The shooting stars attend thee, And the elves also, Whose little eyes glow Like the sparks of fire, befriend thee. No Will o...
Página 300 - All the stories of ghosts and goblins that he had heard in the afternoon now came crowding upon his recollection. The night grew darker and darker, the stars seemed to sink deeper in the sky, and driving clouds occasionally hid them from his sight. He had never felt so lonely and dismal. He was, moreover, approaching the very place where many of the scenes of the ghost stories had been laid.
Página 313 - God send thee good passage, And specially let this be thy prayere, Unto them all that thee will read or hear, Where thou art wrong, after their help to call, Thee to correct in any part or all.