The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, Volumen1John Murray, 1822 |
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... , and to banish its restraints . His country seat abounds with every requisite , either for studious retire- ment , tasteful gratification , or rural exercise . Books , paintings , music , horses , dogs , 118 RURAL LIFE.
... , and to banish its restraints . His country seat abounds with every requisite , either for studious retire- ment , tasteful gratification , or rural exercise . Books , paintings , music , horses , dogs , 118 RURAL LIFE.
Página 121
... ment in the country has diffused a degree of taste and elegance in rural economy , that de- scends to the lowest class . The very labourer , with his thatched cottage and narrow slip of ground , attends to their embellishment . The trim ...
... ment in the country has diffused a degree of taste and elegance in rural economy , that de- scends to the lowest class . The very labourer , with his thatched cottage and narrow slip of ground , attends to their embellishment . The trim ...
Página 134
... ment of his early life , intervals of the acts . fortune , for space in the world's thought , and dominion over his fellow men . But a woman's whole life is a history of the affections . The heart is her world : it is there her ambition ...
... ment of his early life , intervals of the acts . fortune , for space in the world's thought , and dominion over his fellow men . But a woman's whole life is a history of the affections . The heart is her world : it is there her ambition ...
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... ment . I was one summer's day loitering through the great saloons of the British Museum , with that listlessness with which one is apt to saunter about a museum in warm weather ; some- times lolling over the glass cases of minerals ...
... ment . I was one summer's day loitering through the great saloons of the British Museum , with that listlessness with which one is apt to saunter about a museum in warm weather ; some- times lolling over the glass cases of minerals ...
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... ment was an advantage , as it enabled him to apply himself the more exclusively to his im- provement , and quietly to imbibe that rich fund of knowledge , and to cherish those elegant tastes , which have given such a lustre to his ...
... ment was an advantage , as it enabled him to apply himself the more exclusively to his im- provement , and quietly to imbibe that rich fund of knowledge , and to cherish those elegant tastes , which have given such a lustre to his ...
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Página 72 - The name of the child, the air of the mother, the tone of her voice, all awakened a train of recollections in his mind. "What is your name, my good woman?
Página 69 - Rip Van Winkle! Rip Van Winkle!" — at the same time Wolf bristled up his back, and giving a low growl, skulked to his master's side, looking fearfully down into the glen. Rip now felt a vague apprehension stealing over him; he looked anxiously in the same direction, and perceived a strange figure slowly toiling up the rocks, and bending under the weight of something he carried on his back. He was surprised to see any human being in this lonely and unfrequented place, but supposing it to be some...
Página 59 - 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.
Página 60 - When the weather is fair and settled, they are clothed in blue and purple, and print their bold outlines on the clear evening sky ; but sometimes, when the rest of the landscape is cloudless, they will gather a hood of gray vapors about their summits, which, in the last rays of the setting sun, will glow and light up like a crown of glory.
Página 61 - 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, good-natured fellow of the name of Rip Van Winkle. He was a descendant of the Van Winkles who figured so gallantly in the chivalrous days of Peter Stuyvesant, and accompanied him to the siege of Fort Christina.
Página 69 - ... curl about his nose, would gravely nod his head in token of perfect approbation. From even this strong-hold the unlucky Rip was at length routed by his termagant wife, who would suddenly break in upon the tranquillity of the assemblage and call the members all to naught ; nor was that august personage, Nicholas Vedder himself, sacred from the daring tongue of this terrible virago, who charged him outright with encouraging her husband in habits of idleness.
Página 233 - Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet, sitting in my Dolphin chamber, at the round table, by a sea-coal fire, on Wednesday, in Whitsun week, when the prince broke thy head for liking his father to a singing-man of Windsor ; thou didst swear to me then, as I was washing thy wound, to marry me, and make me my lady, thy wife.
Página 69 - These mountain beds do not agree with me," thought Rip, " and if this frolic should lay me up with a fit of the rheumatism, I shall have a blessed time with Dame Van Winkle." With some difficulty he got down into the glen: he found the gully up which he and his companion had ascended the preceding evening; but to his astonishment a mountain stream was now foaming down it, leaping from rock to rock, and filling the glen with babbling murmurs. He, however, made...
Página 62 - Certain it is that he was a great favorite among all the good wives of the village, who, as usual with the amiable sex, took his part in all family squabbles, and never failed, whenever they talked those matters over in their evening gossipings, to lay all the blame on Dame Van Winkle.
Página 276 - With fairest flowers, Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave ; thou shall not lack The flower that's like thy face, pale primrose ; nor The azured harebell, like thy veins ; no, nor The leaf of eglantine ; whom not to slander, Outsweeten'd not thy breath.