The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. [pseud.] ...A. and W. Galignani, 1824 |
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... charms of nature been more prodigally lavished . Her mighty lakes , like oceans of liquid silver ; her moun- tains , with their bright aerial tints ; her val- leys , teeming with wild fertility ; her tremen- dous cataracts , thundering ...
... charms of nature been more prodigally lavished . Her mighty lakes , like oceans of liquid silver ; her moun- tains , with their bright aerial tints ; her val- leys , teeming with wild fertility ; her tremen- dous cataracts , thundering ...
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... charms , which in other coun- tries she lavishes in wild solitudes , are here assembled round the haunts of domestic life . They seem to have caught her coy and furtive graces , and spread them , like witchery , about their rural abodes ...
... charms , which in other coun- tries she lavishes in wild solitudes , are here assembled round the haunts of domestic life . They seem to have caught her coy and furtive graces , and spread them , like witchery , about their rural abodes ...
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... charms ; but the British poets have lived and revelled with her , -they have wooed her in her most secret haunts , they have watched her minutest caprices . A spray could not tremble in the breeze -a leaf could not rustle to the ground ...
... charms ; but the British poets have lived and revelled with her , -they have wooed her in her most secret haunts , they have watched her minutest caprices . A spray could not tremble in the breeze -a leaf could not rustle to the ground ...
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... charm , however , of English sce- nery is the moral feeling that seems to per- vade it . It is associated in the mind with ideas of order , of quiet , of sober well estab- lished principles , of hoary usage and reve- rend custom . Every ...
... charm , however , of English sce- nery is the moral feeling that seems to per- vade it . It is associated in the mind with ideas of order , of quiet , of sober well estab- lished principles , of hoary usage and reve- rend custom . Every ...
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... charm of existence is at an end . She neglects all the cheerful exercises which gladden the spirits , quicken the pulses , and send the tide of life in healthful currents through the veins . Her rest is broken - the sweet refreshment of ...
... charm of existence is at an end . She neglects all the cheerful exercises which gladden the spirits , quicken the pulses , and send the tide of life in healthful currents through the veins . Her rest is broken - the sweet refreshment of ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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?
Page 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.
Page 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.