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... looked forth , as with half - shut eyes , upon the Tappan Sea . The Indian spring , famous in the days of the wizard sachem , still welled up at the bottom of the green bank ; and the wild brook , wild as ever , came babbling down the ...
... looked forth , as with half - shut eyes , upon the Tappan Sea . The Indian spring , famous in the days of the wizard sachem , still welled up at the bottom of the green bank ; and the wild brook , wild as ever , came babbling down the ...
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... if they work but little , they dance a great deal , and a fiddle is the joy of their heart . What had sent Compere Martin travelling with the Grand Seigneur I could not learn ; he evidently looked up 42 THE CREOLE VILLAGE .
... if they work but little , they dance a great deal , and a fiddle is the joy of their heart . What had sent Compere Martin travelling with the Grand Seigneur I could not learn ; he evidently looked up 42 THE CREOLE VILLAGE .
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Washington Irving. Seigneur I could not learn ; he evidently looked up to him with great deference , and was assiduous in rendering him petty atten- tions ; from which I concluded that he lived at home upon the crumbs which fell from his ...
Washington Irving. Seigneur I could not learn ; he evidently looked up to him with great deference , and was assiduous in rendering him petty atten- tions ; from which I concluded that he lived at home upon the crumbs which fell from his ...
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... looked forward to as an event in the village . Numbers of men , women , and children , white , yellow , and black , were collected on the river bank ; most of them clad in old - fashioned French garments , and their heads decorated with ...
... looked forward to as an event in the village . Numbers of men , women , and children , white , yellow , and black , were collected on the river bank ; most of them clad in old - fashioned French garments , and their heads decorated with ...
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... 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- self I was apt to get in a fog ; but when Glencoe came to my ...
... 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- self I was apt to get in a fog ; but when Glencoe came to my ...
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Abencerrage Adalantado Alcayde ancient arms bank beautiful became beheld Bermudas bosom caravel castle cavalier commander Communipaw companions Count Count of Angouleme court cried daughter delighted Don Fernando Don Luis Don Manuel door duchess Duke Duke of Orleans eyes fairy fancy father forest fortune Foulquerre France French gave Glencoe grand hand heard heart honor horse Indians inhabitants island Julia Julia Somerville kind king knew ladies land length livres looked louis-d'ors mansion Marquis de Créqui mind morning never night noble once palace Palais Royal Paris passed phantom island Pluto Prince Prince de Ligne Regent river Roost round royal sachem seated seemed Seneschal Serafina Seven Cities shore sister Sleepy Hollow Somerville soon spirit story thing thought tion took trees turned Vanderscamp village warriors whole wife Wild Goose Wolfert Acker worthy Xarisa young youth
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Página 57 - 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 102 - 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.
Página 114 - 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 334 - 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 342 - Knowledge before — a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy.
Página 36 - Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear ; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year...
Página 34 - But in this genial interval, natu/e 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 342 - 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 107 - 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 41 - town lots'," "water privileges," "railroads," and other comprehensive and soul-stirring words from the speculator's vocabulary, are never heard. The residents dwell in the houses built by their forefathers, without thinking of enlarging or modernizing them, or pulling them down and turning them into granite stores. The trees under which they have been born, and have played in infancy, flourish undisturbed ; though, by cutting them down, they might open new streets, and put money in their pockets....