Essays from the Sketch BookHoughton Mifflin Company, 1891 |
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... Dutch ; Irving , who saw the humorous contrast between the traditional Dutch society of his day and the pushing new democracy , seized upon the early history and made it the occasion for a good - natured burlesque . He shocked the old ...
... Dutch ; Irving , who saw the humorous contrast between the traditional Dutch society of his day and the pushing new democracy , seized upon the early history and made it the occasion for a good - natured burlesque . He shocked the old ...
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... Dutch history of the province , and the manners of the descendants from its primitive settlers . His his- torical researches , however , did not lie so much among books as among men ; for the former are lamentably scanty on his favorite ...
... Dutch history of the province , and the manners of the descendants from its primitive settlers . His his- torical researches , however , did not lie so much among books as among men ; for the former are lamentably scanty on his favorite ...
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... Dutch names , but Irving's use of it has made it representative . In The Author's Apology , which he prefixed to a new edition of the History of New York , he says : " I find its very name become a household word , ' and used to give ...
... Dutch names , but Irving's use of it has made it representative . In The Author's Apology , which he prefixed to a new edition of the History of New York , he says : " I find its very name become a household word , ' and used to give ...
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... Dutch character . Among the critics was a warm friend of Irving , Gulian C. Verplanck , who in a discourse before the New York Historical Society plainly said : " It is painful to see a mind , as admirable for its exquisite perception ...
... Dutch character . Among the critics was a warm friend of Irving , Gulian C. Verplanck , who in a discourse before the New York Historical Society plainly said : " It is painful to see a mind , as admirable for its exquisite perception ...
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... Dutch colonists in the early time of the province , just about the beginning of the government of the good Peter Stuyvesant , 2 ( may he rest in peace ! ) and there were some of the houses of the original set- tlers standing within a ...
... Dutch colonists in the early time of the province , just about the beginning of the government of the good Peter Stuyvesant , 2 ( may he rest in peace ! ) and there were some of the houses of the original set- tlers standing within a ...
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Essays from the Sketch Book: With a Biographical Sketch, Portrait and Notes Washington Irving Vista de fragmentos - 1891 |
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Página 23 - 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. "Alas! gentlemen...
Página 13 - Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as years of matrimony rolled on ; a tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
Página 26 - Vanderdonk. in the most satisfactory manner. He assured the company that it was a fact, handed down from his ancestor the historian, that the Kaatskill Mountains had always been haunted by strange beings. That it was affirmed that the great Hendrick Hudson, the first discoverer of the river and country, kept a kind of vigil there every twenty years, with his crew of the Half-moon...
Página 12 - ... of him. His fences were continually falling to pieces ; his cow would either go astray, or get among the cabbages ; weeds were sure to grow quicker in his fields than...
Página 19 - 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 11 - The children of the village too would shout with joy whenever he approached. He assisted at their sports, made their playthings, taught them to fly kites and shoot marbles, and told them long stories of ghosts, witches, and Indians. Whenever he went dodging about the village, he was surrounded by a troop of them, hanging on his skirts, clambering on his back, and playing a thousand tricks on him with impunity ; and not a dog would bark at him throughout the neighborhood.
Página 11 - It could not be from the want of assiduity or perseverance; for he would sit on a wet rock, with a rod as long and heavy as a Tartar's lance, and fish all day without a murmur, even though he should not be encouraged by a single nibble.
Página 22 - There was, as usual, a crowd of folk about the door, but none that Rip recollected. The very character of the people seemed changed. There was a busy, bustling, disputatious tone about it, instead of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquillity.
Página 28 - ... this was one point on which he always remained flighty. The old Dutch inhabitants, however, almost universally gave it full credit. Even to this day they never hear a thunder-storm of a summer afternoon about the Kaatskill, but they say Hendrick Hudson and his crew are at their game of ninepins ; and it is a common wish of all hen-pecked husbands in the neighborhood, when life hangs heavy on their hands, that they might have a quieting draught out of Rip Van Winkle's flagon.
Página 9 - WHOEVER has made a voyage up the Hudson must remember the Kaatskill mountains. They are a dismembered branch of the great Appalachian family, and are seen away to the west of the river, swelling up to a noble height, and lording it over the surrounding country.