Rip Van Winkle: And Other American Essays from The Sketch BookHoughton Mifflin, 1922 - 94 páginas |
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Página ix
... literary tastes , with which his brothers were thoroughly in sympathy . Under this kindly arrangement , he became well - known as a man about town a man of literary prom- ise and one who had seen the world . As a result came the ...
... literary tastes , with which his brothers were thoroughly in sympathy . Under this kindly arrangement , he became well - known as a man about town a man of literary prom- ise and one who had seen the world . As a result came the ...
Página xii
... literary career in Europe ; and I feel that I am but dis- charging , in a trifling degree , my debt of gratitude to that golden hearted man in acknowledging my indebtedness to him . - But who of his literary contemporaries ever applied ...
... literary career in Europe ; and I feel that I am but dis- charging , in a trifling degree , my debt of gratitude to that golden hearted man in acknowledging my indebtedness to him . - But who of his literary contemporaries ever applied ...
Página xiii
... literary work , Irving's position at the Legation in Madrid would seem to have been more than a sinecure , for in 1829 he was appointed Secretary to the American Legation in London . He was welcomed in England with the friendliness ...
... literary work , Irving's position at the Legation in Madrid would seem to have been more than a sinecure , for in 1829 he was appointed Secretary to the American Legation in London . He was welcomed in England with the friendliness ...
Página xvi
... literary friends lived and moved in the full stream of contemporary affairs . Yet these same friends found in him no lack of breadth or humanity . To them he was the dean of American letters a man whom they delighted to honor . Nor do ...
... literary friends lived and moved in the full stream of contemporary affairs . Yet these same friends found in him no lack of breadth or humanity . To them he was the dean of American letters a man whom they delighted to honor . Nor do ...
Página xvii
... literary art . The fine tribute of Thackeray , written after Irving's death , may fittingly close this sketch : The good Irving , the peaceful , the friendly , had no place for bitterness in his heart , and no scheme but kindness ...
... literary art . The fine tribute of Thackeray , written after Irving's death , may fittingly close this sketch : The good Irving , the peaceful , the friendly , had no place for bitterness in his heart , and no scheme but kindness ...
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American Baltus Van Tassel beheld born bridge British Brom Bones brook brother cakes Canonchet church clouds cocked colonists Dallas Lore Sharp Dame Van Winkle dark Diedrich Knickerbocker door Dutch Edited England English eyes farmhouse favorite fearful flagon foot Galloping Hessian gathered ghosts glen goblin hand haunted head heard heart hero History horse Hudson humor Ichabod Crane Increase Mather Irving Irving's Kaatskill kind King King Philip's War land Legend of Sleepy literary looked Metacomet mind moun mountain Narragansetts neighborhood neighboring night peace Peter Stuyvesant Philip Phillips Exeter Academy plays Plymouth POKANOKET Rip Van Winkle Rip's Ripper river Riverside Literature Series rocks round sachem savage scene schoolhouse schoolmaster settlers side Sketch Book Sleepy Hollow spirit steed story supple-jack swamp tale Tassel terror told tree tribes village Wampanoags warrior WASHINGTON IRVING whistle whole wild witches writing York
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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 15 - ... cliffs, and scarcely lighted by the reflected rays of the setting sun. For some time Rip lay musing on this scene; evening was gradually advancing ; the mountains began to throw their long blue shadows over the valleys; he saw that it would be dark long before he could reach the village, and he heaved a heavy sigh when he thought of encountering the terrors of Dame Van Winkle. As he was about to descend, he heard a voice from a distance, hallooing, " Rip Van Winkle! Rip Van Winkle ! " He looked...
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 29 - 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 47 - Here, rows of resplendent pewter, ranged on a long dresser, dazzled his eyes. In one corner stood a huge bag of wool ready to be spun; in another a quantity of linsey-woolsey just from the loom; ears of Indian corn, and strings of dried apples and peaches, hung in gay festoons along the walls, mingled with the gaud of red peppers; and a door left ajar gave him a peep into the best parlor, where the claw-footed chairs, and dark mahogany tables, shone like mirrors; andirons, with their accompanying...
Página 36 - He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weather-cock, perched upon his spindle neck, to tell which way the wind blew.
Página 23 - GENERAL WASHINGTON. 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. He looked in vain for the sage Nicholas Vedder, with...
Página 38 - ... of the weak, and laying it on those of the strong. Your mere puny stripling, that winced at the least flourish of the rod, was passed by with indulgence; but the claims of justice were satisfied by inflicting a double portion on some little, tough, wrong-headed, broad-skirted Dutch urchin, who sulked and swelled and grew dogged and sullen beneath the birch. All this he called "doing his duty by their parents...
Página 36 - To see him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield.
Página 13 - ... to produce a torrent of household eloquence. Rip had but one way of replying to all lectures of the kind, and that, by frequent use, had grown into a habit. He shrugged his shoulders, shook his head, cast up his eyes, but said nothing. This, however, always provoked a fresh volley from his wife ; so that he was fain to draw off his forces, and take to the outside of the house — the only side which, in truth, belongs to a hen-pecked husband.