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, goodnatured fellow, of the... The Beauties of Washington Irving, Esq. ... - Página 14por Washington Irving - 1830 - 316 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Henry Augustin Beers - 1878 - 510 páginas
...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...was a descendant of the Van Winkles who figured so 3* gallantly in the chivalrous days of Peter Stuyvesant, and accompanied him to the siege of Fort Christina.... | |
| Washington Irving, Homer Baxter Sprague - 1878 - 186 páginas
...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...good-natured fellow, of the name of Rip Van Winkle, j He was a descendant of the Van Winkles who figured so gallantly in the chivalrous days of Peter Stuyvesant,... | |
| Washington Irving - 1878 - 152 páginas
...tell the precise truth, was sadly time-worn and weatherbeaten,) there lived many years since, while the country was yet a province of Great Britain, a simple good-natured fellow, x of the name of Eip Van Winkle. He was a descendant of the Van Winkles who figured so gallantly in... | |
| Washington Irving - 1880 - 460 páginas
...tell the precise truth, was sadly28 time-worn and weather-beaten,) there lived many years since, while the country was yet a province of Great Britain, a...and accompanied him to the siege of Fort Christina 29. He inherited, however, but little of the martial character of his ancestors. I have observed that... | |
| 1880 - 516 páginas
...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...Stuyvesant, and accompanied him to the siege' of Fort Christina.3 He inherited, however, but little of the martial character of his ancestors. I have observed... | |
| 1880 - 444 páginas
...gallantly in the chivalrous days of Peter Stuyvesant, and accompanied him to the siege of Fort Christina.2 He inherited, however, but little of the martial character...observed that he was a simple, good-natured man ; he was, more1 Stuyvesant was governor of New Netherlands from 1647 to 1664. He plays an important part in Knickerbocker's... | |
| mrs. William Thomas Greenup - 1880 - 328 páginas
...the fresh green of the nearer landscape. In this same village there lived, many years since, while the country was yet a province of Great Britain, a...good-natured fellow of the name of Rip Van Winkle. He was blessed with a termagant wife, under whose discipline he acquired the virtues of patience and long-suffering.... | |
| Henry William Dulcken - 1880 - 508 páginas
...tell the precise truth, was sadly timeworn and weather-beaten), there lived many years since, while the country was yet a province of Great Britain, a...good-natured fellow, of the name of Rip Van Winkle. He was, moreover, a kind neighbour, and an obedient, henpecked husband. Indeed, to the latter circumstance... | |
| 1915 - 728 páginas
...classes. a. In that same milage, and in one of these very houses, there lived, many years since, while the country was yet a, province of Great Britain,...good-natured fellow, of the name of Rip Van Winkle. 2. Write on any subject a brief article which shall contain at least two paragraphs, one balanced sentence,... | |
| Granville series - 1881 - 376 páginas
...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...of the Van Winkles who figured so gallantly in the chivalrous5 days of Peter Stuyvesant, and accompanied him to the siege of Christina. He inherited,... | |
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