The Crayon Reading Book: Comprising Selections from the Various Writings of Washington IrvingG.P. Putnam, 1849 - 255 páginas |
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The Crayon Reading Book: Comprising Selections from the Various Writings of ... Washington Irving Visualização integral - 1849 |
The Crayon Reading Book: Comprising Selections from the Various Writings of ... Washington Irving Visualização integral - 1849 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
abbey Acbar admiration Alhambra ancient Anglo-Saxon Language arms arrived beautiful behold Boabdil bosom burst camp Castilian cavaliers cloth clouds Columbus court crew deep delight distance earth fancy feelings forest gate gaze Geoffrey Chaucer George Somers gloom Granada grave grief groves hand heard heart heaven Hernando de Talavera hills horses hour hunting Indian Juan king kingdom of Granada land light lofty looked lumbus magnificence Manetho mind mingled Moguer monument Moorish mother mountains native nature night noble OLIVER WOLCOTT GIBBS once passed Peter Stuyvesant poor prairies pride repose river round ruins sail savage scene seemed sepulchres ship shore silent solemn song sorrow soul sound sovereigns Spain Spanish spirit steed stream summit surrounded swelling tenderness thing thou thunder tion tomb towers trees tribes University of Giessen Vasco Nuñez vast village voyage wandered warriors whole wild wind Xenel
Passagens conhecidas
Página 63 - As monumental bronze unchanged his look: A soul that pity touch'd but never shook: Train'd from his tree-rock'd cradle to his bier, The fierce extremes of good and ill to brook Impassive — fearing but the shame of fear — A stoic of the woods — a man without a tear.
Página 201 - ... the caverns of the deep. Silence, oblivion, like the waves, have closed over them, and no one can tell the story of their end. What sighs have been wafted after that ship ! what prayers offered up at the deserted fireside of home ! How often has the mistress, the wife...
Página 199 - Oh the grave ! — the grave ! — It buries every error — covers every defect — extinguishes every resentment ! From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections.
Página 188 - ... if thou art a lover, and hast ever given one unmerited pang to that true heart which now lies cold and still beneath thy feet, — then be sure that every unkind look, every ungracious word, every ungentle action will come thronging back upon thy memory and knocking dolefully at thy soul...
Página 76 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat ; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, " Logan is the friend of white men.
Página 200 - There was a delicious sensation of mingled security and awe with which I looked down, from my giddy height, on the monsters of the deep at their uncouth gambols. Shoals of porpoises tumbling about the bow of the ship ; the grampus slowly heaving his huge form above the surface ; or the ravenous shark, darting, like a spectre, through the blue waters.
Página 241 - As the vine, which has long twined its graceful foliage about the oak, and been lifted by it into sunshine, will, when the hardy plant is rifted by...
Página 22 - A. thousand speculations of the kind must have swarmed upon him, as, with his anxious crews, he waited for the night to pass away, wondering whether the morning light would reveal a savage wilderness, or dawn upon spicy groves, and glittering fanes...
Página 123 - It is surprising in what countless swarms the bees have overspread the far West within but a moderate number of years. The Indians consider them the harbinger of the white man, as the buffalo is of the red man ; and say that, in proportion as the bee advances the Indian and the buffalo retire.
Página 27 - As he drew near the place, many of the youthful courtiers, and hidalgos, together with a vast concourse of the populace, came forth to meet and welcome him. His entrance into this noble city has been compared to one of those triumphs which the Romans were accustomed to decree to conquerors. First, were paraded the Indians, painted according to their savage fashion, and decorated with their national ornaments of gold.