Wolfert's Roost: And Other Papers, Now First CollectedG.P. Putnam & Company, 1855 - 383 oldal Contains five pieces that might be called short stories: "Mountjoy," a first-person story that originally was to have been developed into a novel entitled "Rosalie"; "The Widow's Ordeal," a story of judicial combat gleaned from the annals of Spain; "The Grand Prior of Minorca," heard from a Knight of Malta who "loved to let his imagination carry him away"; "Guests from Gibbet Island," a legend of Communipaw found among the Knickerbocker papers at Wolfert's Roost; and "The Adalantado of the Seven Cities: A Legend of St. Brandan." Also of interest are two fanciful pieces which lack sufficient plot development to be called short stories: "Don Juan: A Spectral Research," about an amorous Spanish cavalier's encounter with his own funeral, and "Legend of the Engulphed Convent," about a convent miraculously swallowed up in the earth just as ravaging Moors broke down its gate. |
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Abencerrage Adalantado Alcayde ancient arms bank beautiful became Bermudas bosom caravel castle cavalier cloth commander Communipaw companion Count Count of Angouleme court cried daughter delighted Don Fernando Don Manuel door duchess Duke Duke of Orleans eyes fairy fancy father forest fortune Foulquerre France French gave gilt Glencoe grand hand heard heart honor horse Indians inhabitants island Julia Julia Somerville kind king ladies land length livres looked louis-d'ors mansion Marquis de Créqui mind morning never night noble once palace Palais Royal Paris passed phantom island Pluto price $1 Prince Prince de Ligne Regent river Roost round royal sachem seated seemed Seneschal Serafina Seven Cities shore sister Sleepy Hollow Somerville soon spirit story thing thought tion took trees turned Vanderscamp village warriors whole wife Wild Goose Wolfert Acker worthy Xarisa young youth
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333. oldal - keeping up a casual conversation, by way of dispelling the loneliness of the scene, I called to mind the words of the poet : ' The tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a
341. oldal - And wave thy purple wings, Now all thy figures are allowed, And various shapes of things. Create of airy forms a stream ; It must have blood and naught of phlegm ; And though it "be a walking dream, Yet let it like an odor rise To all the senses here, And fall like sleep upon their eyes, Or music on their ear.—BEN JONSON.
104. oldal - the islands of the Bermudas," says the old narrative of this voyage, " as every man knoweth that hath heard or read of them, were never inhabited by any Christian or heathen people, but were ever esteemed and reputed a most prodigious and
152. oldal - and wonders at the magnitude of the inflation he has contributed to produce. Speculation is the romance of trade, and casts contempt upon all its sober realities. It renders the stock-jobber a magician, and the exchange a region of enchantment. It elevates the merchant into a kind of
244. oldal - and his comrades, having been driven from their old line of business, by the " oppressions of government," had resorted to smuggling to make both ends meet. Be that as it may : I come now to the extraordinary fact, which is the butt-end of this story. It happened late one night, that Yan Yost
32. oldal - loud-piping frogs make the marshes to ring ; Then warm glows the sunshine, and warm grows the weather ; The blue woodland flowers just beginning to spring, And spice-wood and sassafras budding together ; O then to your gardens, ye housewives, repair, Your walks border up, sow and plant at your leisure ; The blue-bird will chant from his box such an air, That all
241. oldal - 11 laugh in their faces, and ask them how they liked' the smell of gunpowder. Thus was the little village of Communipaw for a time like the unfortunate wight possessed with devils ; until Yanderscamp and his brother merchants would sail on another trading voyage, when the Wild Goose would be shut up, and
28. oldal - to endless ghost stories spun forth to the humming accompaniment of the wheel. The delighted historian pursued his explorations far into the foldings of the hills where the Pocantico winds its wizard stream among the mazes of its old Indian haunts ; sometimes running darkly in pieces of woodland beneath
235. oldal - Under the sway of this patriotic, though discreet and quiet publican, the tavern continued to flourish in primeval tranquillity, and was the resort of true-hearted Nederlanders, from all parts of Pavonia ; who met here quietly and secretly, to smoke and drink the downfall of Briton and Yankee, and success to Admiral
88. oldal - in full wing, but paused on Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered. I dwelt on the character of Clorinda : ^There's a character," said I, " that you will find well worthy a woman's study. It shows to what exalted heights of heroism the sex can rise ; how gloriously they may share even in the stern concerns of men.