The Works of Washington Irving ...G. P. Putnam, 1863 |
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... fact the great Mediterranean Sea of the New- Netherlands , stands a little old - fashioned stone mansion , all made up of gable - ends , and as full of angles and corners as an old cocked hat . It is said , in fact , to have been ...
... fact the great Mediterranean Sea of the New- Netherlands , stands a little old - fashioned stone mansion , all made up of gable - ends , and as full of angles and corners as an old cocked hat . It is said , in fact , to have been ...
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... fact becomes mys . tified , and tinted up with delectable fiction . The eastern shore of the Tappan Sea was inhabited in those days by an unsophisti- cated race , existing in all the simplicity of nature ; that is to say , they lived by ...
... fact becomes mys . tified , and tinted up with delectable fiction . The eastern shore of the Tappan Sea was inhabited in those days by an unsophisti- cated race , existing in all the simplicity of nature ; that is to say , they lived by ...
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... fact , to meet a head wind at every turn , and be kept in a constant fume and fret by the perverseness of mankind Had he served on a modern jury he would have been sure to have eleven unreasonable men opposed to him . At the time when ...
... fact , to meet a head wind at every turn , and be kept in a constant fume and fret by the perverseness of mankind Had he served on a modern jury he would have been sure to have eleven unreasonable men opposed to him . At the time when ...
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... facts drawn from these sources which give his work the preference , in point of accuracy , over every other history . It was during his sojourn in this eventful neighborhood , that the historian is supposed to have picked up many of ...
... facts drawn from these sources which give his work the preference , in point of accuracy , over every other history . It was during his sojourn in this eventful neighborhood , that the historian is supposed to have picked up many of ...
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... facts which the worthy Died- rich collected in these lowly mansions , and patiently would he sit by the old Dutch housewives with a child on his knee , or a purr- ing grimalkin on his lap , listing to endless ghost stories spun forth to ...
... facts which the worthy Died- rich collected in these lowly mansions , and patiently would he sit by the old Dutch housewives with a child on his knee , or a purr- ing grimalkin on his lap , listing to endless ghost stories spun forth to ...
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56. oldal - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
333. oldal - And terror on my aching sight : the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a dullness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand and let me hear thy voice ; Nay — quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.
113. oldal - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things: For no kind of traffic Would I admit; no name of magistrate; Letters should not be known ; riches, poverty, And use of service, none; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none; No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil; No occupation; all men idle, all, And women too, but innocent and pure : No sovereignty— Seb.
341. oldal - Knowledge before — a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy.
34. oldal - But in this genial interval, nature is in all her freshness and fragrance: "the rains are over and gone, the flowers appear upon the earth, the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in the land.
106. oldal - For the kind spring which but salutes us here, Inhabits there and courts them all the year ; Ripe fruits and blossoms on the same trees live, At once they promise what at once they give ; So sweet the air, so moderate the clime, None sickly lives or dies before his time ; Heaven sure has kept this spot of earth uncurst To show how all things were created first.
35. oldal - I might have addressed him in the words of Logan to the cuckoo : Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear Thou hast no sorrow in thy note, No winter in thy year. Oh 1 could I fly, I'd fly with thee ; "We'd make, on joyful wing, Our annual visit round the globe, . Companions of the spring...
341. oldal - Break, Phantsie, from thy cave of cloud, 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...
36. oldal - The riceswamps of the South invite him. He gorges himself among them almost to bursting ; he can scarcely fly for corpulency. He has once more changed his name, and is now the famous Rice-bird of the Carolinas. Last stage of his career : behold him spitted, with dozens of his corpulent companions, and served up, a vaunted dish, on the table of some Southern gastronome.
101. oldal - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.