The Garden of Romance: Romantic Tales of All TimeErnest Rhys Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Company, Limited, 1897 - 238 páginas |
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... me the honourable appellation of silent . I had six brothers whom you might with some reason have termed chatterers , and that you may be acquainted with them , the eldest was named Bacbouc , the second Bakbarah , 12 THE GARDEN OF ROMANCE.
... me the honourable appellation of silent . I had six brothers whom you might with some reason have termed chatterers , and that you may be acquainted with them , the eldest was named Bacbouc , the second Bakbarah , 12 THE GARDEN OF ROMANCE.
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... brothers , of whom our family con- sists , I am the very one who speaks least , and yet who possesses the most wit . In order to convince you of it , gentlemen , I have only to relate their story and my own to you . I entreat you to ...
... brothers , of whom our family con- sists , I am the very one who speaks least , and yet who possesses the most wit . In order to convince you of it , gentlemen , I have only to relate their story and my own to you . I entreat you to ...
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... brother , younger than he in years , but not a jot inferior to him in virtue , whose name was Ormisda , and long time the case had been in question for his taking to wife a fair young gentlewoman of Rhodes , called Cassandra , whom ...
... brother , younger than he in years , but not a jot inferior to him in virtue , whose name was Ormisda , and long time the case had been in question for his taking to wife a fair young gentlewoman of Rhodes , called Cassandra , whom ...
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... brother Ormisda , even in the self - same manner and on his marriage- day , by taking from me fair Cassandra , the only jewel of my love and life . For the prevention of two such notorious injuries , I see that fortune hath left us no ...
... brother Ormisda , even in the self - same manner and on his marriage- day , by taking from me fair Cassandra , the only jewel of my love and life . For the prevention of two such notorious injuries , I see that fortune hath left us no ...
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... brother Ormisda came to his rescue , and sped like- wise in the self - same manner as he had done ; so did divers others beside , whom the companions to Lysimachus and Cymon either slew outright or wounded . So they left the house ...
... brother Ormisda came to his rescue , and sped like- wise in the self - same manner as he had done ; so did divers others beside , whom the companions to Lysimachus and Cymon either slew outright or wounded . So they left the house ...
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Términos y frases comunes
adventure anon answered Anthony arms Balan Balin barber beauty beheld brother cadi castle chamber Chrysostom clipse Corporal countenance court cried Cymon damsel dead death Dendermond desire dolorous stroke Don Quixote door Eisenach eyes fair father favour fell Fevre fortune gave gentleman give hand hast hath head heard heart heaven Honour horse Iphigenia King Arthur King Lot King Marke King Pellam kinsman knight knight-errant living looked Lord Woodville Lysimachus Major Molineux Marcella master Merlin Molly Morgan le Fay mountain never nightcap Pasimunda passing perceived poor replied Rip Van Winkle Robin rode seemed sermon shave slain slew smote sorrow soul stood story strange street sword tears tell thee therewith thou thought told took tree Trim turned uncle Toby unto Usher village Vivaldo voice words young youth
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Página 161 - Alas! gentlemen," cried Rip, somewhat dismayed, "I am a poor quiet man, a native of the place, and a loyal subject of the king, God bless him!" Here a general shout burst from the bystanders — "A tory! a tory! a spy! a refugee! hustle him! away with him!
Página 156 - On waking, he found himself on the green knoll whence he had first seen the old man of the glen. He rubbed his eyes. It was a bright, sunny morning. The birds were hopping and twittering among the bushes, and the eagle was wheeling aloft and breasting the pure mountain breeze. "Surely," thought Rip. "I have not slept here all night.
Página 165 - Rip's daughter took him home to live with her; she had a snug, well-furnished house, and a stout cheery farmer for her husband, whom Rip recollected for one of the urchins that used to climb upon his back. As to Rip's son and heir, who was the ditto of himself, seen leaning against the tree, he was employed to work on the farm; but evinced an hereditary disposition to attend to anything else but his business.
Página 201 - ... with effort, connect its Arabesque expression with any idea of simple humanity. In the manner of my friend I was at once struck with an incoherence, an inconsistency; and I soon found this to arise from a series of feeble and futile struggles to overcome an habitual trepidancy, an excessive nervous agitation. For something of this nature I had indeed been prepared, no less by his letter than by reminiscences of certain boyish traits, and by conclusions deduced from his peculiar physical conformation...
Página 165 - Rip now resumed his old walks and habits; he soon found many of his former cronies, though all rather the worse for the wear and tear of time, and preferred making friends among the rising generation, with whom he soon grew into great favor.
Página 159 - It was with some difficulty that he found 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.
Página 147 - ... about their summits, which, in the last rays of the setting sun, will glow and light up like a crown of glory. At the foot of these fairy mountains...
Página 157 - He now suspected that the grave roysterers 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.
Página 167 - Hudson and his crew are at their game of ninepins ; and it is a common wish of all henpecked husbands in the neighbourhood, when life hangs heavy on their hands, that they might have a quieting draught out of Rip Van Winkle's flagon.
Página 203 - I have indeed no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect, — in terror. In this unnerved — in this pitiable condition, I feel that the period will sooner or later arrive when I must abandon life and reason together, in some struggle with the grim phantasm, FEAR.