Wolfert's roost: and other sketches, Volume 78 |
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... present melodious alteration to Sing - Sing is said to have been made in compliment to a Yankee singing - master , who taught the inhabitants the art of singing hrough the nose . he laid the sachem of Sing - Sing and his 2 WOLFERT'S ROOST .
... present melodious alteration to Sing - Sing is said to have been made in compliment to a Yankee singing - master , who taught the inhabitants the art of singing hrough the nose . he laid the sachem of Sing - Sing and his 2 WOLFERT'S ROOST .
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... inhabitants have none of that public spirit which ex- tends its cares beyond its horizon , and imports trouble and perplexity from all quarters in newspapers . In fact , news- papers are almost unknown in these villages , and as French ...
... inhabitants have none of that public spirit which ex- tends its cares beyond its horizon , and imports trouble and perplexity from all quarters in newspapers . In fact , news- papers are almost unknown in these villages , and as French ...
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... inhabitants have a hereditary love for balls and fêtes ; if they work but little , they dance a great deal , and a fiddle is the joy of their heart . What had sent Compère Martin travelling with the Grand Seigneur I could not learn ; he ...
... inhabitants have a hereditary love for balls and fêtes ; if they work but little , they dance a great deal , and a fiddle is the joy of their heart . What had sent Compère Martin travelling with the Grand Seigneur I could not learn ; he ...
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... - embark . As we swept away from the shore , I cast back a wistful eye upon the moss - grown roofs and ancient elms of the village , and prayed that the inhabitants might long retain their happy THE CREOLE VILLAGE . 25 25.
... - embark . As we swept away from the shore , I cast back a wistful eye upon the moss - grown roofs and ancient elms of the village , and prayed that the inhabitants might long retain their happy THE CREOLE VILLAGE . 25 25.
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Washington Irving. and prayed that the inhabitants might long retain their happy ignorance , their absence of all enterprise and improvement , their respect for the fiddle , and their contempt for the almighty dollar . * I fear , however ...
Washington Irving. and prayed that the inhabitants might long retain their happy ignorance , their absence of all enterprise and improvement , their respect for the fiddle , and their contempt for the almighty dollar . * I fear , however ...
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Página 68 - 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 213 - Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an awe 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 17 - Does he take warning and reform? Alas ! not he. Incorrigible epicure ! again he wings his flight. The rice swamps of the south invite him. He gorges himself among them almost to bursting; he can scarcely fly for corpulency. He has once more changed his name, and is now the famous rice-bird of the Carolinas. Last stage of his career: behold him spitted, with dozens of his corpulent companions, and served up, a vaunted dish, on the table of some southern gastronome.
Página 60 - 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 19 - 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. In a word, the almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land...
Página 68 - All things in common, nature should produce Without sweat or endeavour : treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine, Would I not have ; but nature should bring forth, Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people.
Página 16 - 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 15 - Nature 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 60 - Nor is our simple pleasure mixed with pains. Our sports begin with the beginning year ; In calms, to pull the leaping fish to land. In roughs, to sing and dance along the ; along the yellow sand.
Página 46 - It was passing strange. I felt that if she were an old woman, I should be quite at my ease; if she were even an ugly woman, I should make out very well; it was her beauty that overpowered me. How little do lovely women know what awful beings they are, in the eyes of inexperienced youth! Young men brought up in the fashionable circles of our cities will smile at all this. Accustomed to mingle incessantly in female society, and to have the romance of the heart deadened by a thousand frivolous flirtations,...