The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. [pseud.] ...A. and W. Galignani, 1824 |
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... early adversity , yet others will now and then strike root even in the clefts of the rock , struggle bravely up into sunshine , and spread over their sterile birth - place all the beauties of vegetation . . Such has been the case with ...
... early adversity , yet others will now and then strike root even in the clefts of the rock , struggle bravely up into sunshine , and spread over their sterile birth - place all the beauties of vegetation . . Such has been the case with ...
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... did a couple set forward on the flowery path of early and well - suited marriage with a fairer prospect of felicity . It was the misfortune of my friend , how- ever , to have embarked his property in large speculations 46 THE WIFE .
... did a couple set forward on the flowery path of early and well - suited marriage with a fairer prospect of felicity . It was the misfortune of my friend , how- ever , to have embarked his property in large speculations 46 THE WIFE .
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... early times of the province , just about the be- ginning of the government of the good Peter Stuyvesant , ( may he rest in peace ! ) and there were some of the houses of the original set- tlers standing within a few years , built of ...
... early times of the province , just about the be- ginning of the government of the good Peter Stuyvesant , ( may he rest in peace ! ) and there were some of the houses of the original set- tlers standing within a few years , built of ...
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... earliest accounts of the pro- vince . Peter was the most ancient inhabitant of the village , and well versed in all the wonder- ful events and traditions of the neighbourhood . He recollected Rip at once , and corroborated his story in ...
... earliest accounts of the pro- vince . Peter was the most ancient inhabitant of the village , and well versed in all the wonder- ful events and traditions of the neighbourhood . He recollected Rip at once , and corroborated his story in ...
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... early literature , and sow thorns and brambles among its blossoms . What is still worse , they circulate through our own coun- try , and , as far as they have effect , excite viru- lent national prejudices . This last is the evil most ...
... early literature , and sow thorns and brambles among its blossoms . What is still worse , they circulate through our own coun- try , and , as far as they have effect , excite viru- lent national prejudices . This last is the evil most ...
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Страница 88 - Nicholas Vedder?" There was a silence for a little while, when an old man replied, in a thin piping voice, "Nicholas Vedder! why, he is dead and gone these eighteen years! There was a wooden tombstone in the church-yard that used to tell all about him, but that's rotten and gone too.
Страница 289 - Say I died true. My love was false, but I was firm, From my hour of birth, Upon my buried body lie Lightly, gentle earth.
Страница 12 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
Страница 83 - The very village was altered; it was larger and more populous. There were rows of houses which he had never seen before, and those which had been his familiar haunts had disappeared. Strange names were over the doors, strange faces at the windows — everything was strange.
Страница 80 - He now suspected that the grave roysters of the mountain had put a trick upon him, and, having dosed him with liquor, had robbed him of his gun. Wolf, too, had disappeared, but he might have strayed away after a squirrel or partridge. He whistled after him and shouted his name, but all in vain; the echoes repeated his whistle and shout, but no dog was to be seen.
Страница 274 - 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.
Страница 84 - ... the way to his own house, which he approached with silent awe, expecting every moment to hear the shrill voice of Dame Van Winkle. He found the house gone to decay — the roof fallen in, the windows shattered, and the doors off the hinges. A half-starved dog, that looked like Wolf, was skulking about it. Rip called him by name, but the cur snarled, showed his teeth, and passed on. This was an unkind cut indeed.
Страница 87 - ... knowing, self-important old gentleman, in a sharp cocked hat, made his way through the crowd, putting them to the right and left with his elbows as he passed, and planting himself before Van Winkle, with one arm akimbo, the other resting on his cane, his keen eyes and sharp hat penetrating, as it were, into his very soul, demanded, in an austere tone, "what brought him to the election with a gun on his shoulder and a mob at his heels, and whether he meant to breed a riot in the village?
Страница 78 - ... countenances, that his heart turned within him, and his knees smote together. His companion now emptied the contents of the keg into large flagons, and made signs to him to wait upon the company. He obeyed with fear and trembling; they quaffed the liquor in profound silence, and then returned to their game.
Страница 316 - ... so that though a thief might get in with perfect ease, he would find some embarrassment in getting out : an idea most probably borrowed by the architect, Yost Van Houten, from the mystery of an eel-pot.