The Sketch BookB. Tauchnitz, 1843 - 446 páginas |
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... worthy the attention of the citizens of our young and busy country , where literature and the elegant arts must grow up side by side with the coarser plants of daily necessity ; and must depend for their culture , not on the exclusive ...
... worthy the attention of the citizens of our young and busy country , where literature and the elegant arts must grow up side by side with the coarser plants of daily necessity ; and must depend for their culture , not on the exclusive ...
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... worthy associates . He is independent of the world around He lives with antiquity and with posterity ; with antiquity , in the sweet communion of studious retire- ment ; and with posterity , in the generous aspirings after future renown ...
... worthy associates . He is independent of the world around He lives with antiquity and with posterity ; with antiquity , in the sweet communion of studious retire- ment ; and with posterity , in the generous aspirings after future renown ...
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... worthy of a more generous cause . I shall not , however , dwell on this irksome and hackneyed topic ; nor should I have adverted to it , but for the undue interest apparently taken in it by my countrymen , and certain injurious effects ...
... worthy of a more generous cause . I shall not , however , dwell on this irksome and hackneyed topic ; nor should I have adverted to it , but for the undue interest apparently taken in it by my countrymen , and certain injurious effects ...
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... worthy of our study than England . The spirit of her constitution is most ana- logous to ours . The manners of her people — their in- tellectual activity - their freedom of opinion - their habits of thinking on those subjects which ...
... worthy of our study than England . The spirit of her constitution is most ana- logous to ours . The manners of her people — their in- tellectual activity - their freedom of opinion - their habits of thinking on those subjects which ...
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... worthy of ap- probation . We may thus place England before us as a perpetual volume of reference , wherein are recorded sound deductions from ages of experience ; and while we avoid the errors and absurdities which may have crept into ...
... worthy of ap- probation . We may thus place England before us as a perpetual volume of reference , wherein are recorded sound deductions from ages of experience ; and while we avoid the errors and absurdities which may have crept into ...
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ancient antiquity Baltus Van Tassel Baron beautiful Boar's Head bosom Bracebridge bustle Canonchet castle character charm Christmas church churchyard cottage countenance custom Dame dark deep delight distant door earth Eastcheap England English fancy favourite feelings fire flowers gathered goblin grave green hall hand heard heart honour horse hung Ichabod Ichabod Crane Indian John Bull kind lady Little Britain living look mansion Master Simon melancholy merry mind mingled monuments mountain nature neighbourhood neighbours ness never night noble old English old gentleman once passed Philip poet poor pride quiet racter Rip Van Winkle Robert Preston round rural scene seemed Shakspeare Sketch Book sleep Sleepy Hollow song sorrow soul sound spectre spirit Squire story Stratford sweet tender thought tion tomb tower trees turn village wandering Wassail Wat Tyler whole wild William Walworth window Winkle worthy young
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Página 63 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks. Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam...
Página 377 - This is the prettiest low-born lass that ever Ran on the green-sward : nothing she does or seems But smacks of something greater than herself, Too noble for this place.
Página 42 - In that same village, and in one of these very houses (which, to tell the precise truth, was sadly time-worn and weather-beaten), there lived many years since, while the country was yet a province of Great Britain, a simple, good-natured fellow of the name of Rip Van Winkle. He was a descendant of the Van Winkles who figured so gallantly in the chivalrous days of Peter Stuyvesant, and accompanied him to the siege of Fort Christina.
Página 435 - 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 90 - She sings the wild songs of her dear native plains, Every note which he loved awaking — Ah! little they think, who delight in her strains, How the heart of the minstrel is breaking!
Página 322 - 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 146 - Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet, sitting in my Dolphin chamber, at the round table, by a sea-coal fire, on Wednesday, in Whitsun week, when the prince broke thy head for liking his father to a singing-man of Windsor ; thou didst swear to me then, as I was washing thy wound, to marry me, and make me my lady, thy wife.
Página 420 - ... and nature wore that rich and golden livery which we always associate with the idea of abundance. The forests had put on their sober brown and yellow, while some trees of the tenderer kind had been nipped by the frosts into brilliant dyes of orange, purple and scarlet. Streaming files of wild ducks began to make their appearance high in the air ; the bark of the squirrel might be heard from the groves of beech and hickory nuts, and the pensive whistle of the quail at intervals from the neighboring...
Página 45 - Morning, noon, and night, her tongue was incessantly going, and everything he said or did was sure to produce a torrent of household eloquence. Rip had but one way of replying to all lectures of the kind, and that, by frequent use, had grown into a habit. He shrugged his shoulders, shook his head, cast up his eyes, but said nothing.
Página 53 - ... dreaded to meet his wife ; but it would not do to starve among the mountains. He shook his head, shouldered the rusty firelock, and with a heart full of trouble and anxiety turned his steps homeward.