The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, Volume 2J. Murray, 1821 - 343 pages |
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... distant door , whistles about the casement , and rumbles down the chimney , what can be more grateful than that feeling of sober and sheltered security , with which we look round upon the comfortable chamber and the scene of domestic ...
... distant door , whistles about the casement , and rumbles down the chimney , what can be more grateful than that feeling of sober and sheltered security , with which we look round upon the comfortable chamber and the scene of domestic ...
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... distant fields to the weary pilgrim of the desert . Stranger and sojourner as I am in the land- though for me no social hearth may blaze , no hospitable roof throw open its doors , nor the warm grasp of friendship welcome me at the ...
... distant fields to the weary pilgrim of the desert . Stranger and sojourner as I am in the land- though for me no social hearth may blaze , no hospitable roof throw open its doors , nor the warm grasp of friendship welcome me at the ...
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... distant friends for the impending feast . I had three fine rosy - cheeked school - boys for my fellow passengers inside , full of the buxom health and manly spirit which I have observed in the children in this country . They were ...
... distant friends for the impending feast . I had three fine rosy - cheeked school - boys for my fellow passengers inside , full of the buxom health and manly spirit which I have observed in the children in this country . They were ...
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Washington Irving. resounded through the still frosty air , and was answered by the distant barking of dogs , with which the mansion - house seemed garrisoned . An old woman immediately appeared at the gate . As the moonlight fell ...
Washington Irving. resounded through the still frosty air , and was answered by the distant barking of dogs , with which the mansion - house seemed garrisoned . An old woman immediately appeared at the gate . As the moonlight fell ...
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... While we were talking we heard the distant toll of the village bell , and I was told that the Squire was a little particular in having his household at church on a Christmas morning ; considering it a day 52 CHRISTMAS DAY .
... While we were talking we heard the distant toll of the village bell , and I was told that the Squire was a little particular in having his household at church on a Christmas morning ; considering it a day 52 CHRISTMAS DAY .
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Page 163 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat ; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, " Logan is the friend of white men.
Page 311 - ... he carried his whip perpendicularly in his hand, like a sceptre, and, as his horse jogged on, the motion of his arms was not unlike the flapping of a pair of wings. A small wool hat rested on the top of his nose, for so his scanty strip of forehead might be called ; and the skirts of his black coat fluttered out almost to the horse's tail.
Page 290 - He assisted the farmers occasionally in the lighter labors of their farms — helped to make hay, mended the fences, took the horses to water, drove the cows from pasture and cut wood for the winter fire. He laid aside, too, all- the dominant dignity and absolute sway with which he lorded it in his little empire, the school, and became wonderfully gentle and ingratiating. He found favor in the eyes of the mothers by petting the children, particularly the youngest, and like the lion bold...
Page 281 - A pleasing land of drowsy -head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye ; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky...
Page 328 - The hair of the affrighted pedagogue rose upon his head with terror. What was to be done? To turn and fly was now too late; and besides, what chance was there of escaping ghost or goblin, if such it was, which could ride upon the wings of the wind? Summoning up, therefore, a show of courage, he demanded in stammering accents — "Who are you?
Page 289 - With these he lived successively a week at a time; thus going the rounds of the neighbourhood, with all his worldly effects tied up in a cotton handkerchief. That all this might not be too onerous on the purses of his rustic patrons, who are apt to consider the costs of schooling a grievous burden, and schoolmasters as mere drones, he had various ways of rendering himself both useful and agreeable. He assisted the farmers occasionally in the lighter...
Page 314 - ... and purple of their rocky sides. A sloop was loitering in the distance, dropping slowly down with the tide, her sail hanging uselessly against the mast ; and as the reflection of the sky gleamed along the still water, it seemed as if the vessel was suspended in the air.
Page 326 - ... above all the other trees of the neighborhood, and formed a kind of landmark. Its limbs were gnarled, and fantastic, large enough to form trunks for ordinary trees, twisting down almost to the earth, and rising again into the air. It was connected with...
Page 299 - Nay, his busy fancy already realized his hopes, and presented to him the blooming Katrina, with a whole family of children, mounted on the top of a waggon loaded with household trumpery, with pots and kettles dangling beneath ; and he beheld himself bestriding a pacing mare, with a colt at her heels, setting out for Kentucky, Tennessee, or the Lord knows where. When he entered the house the conquest of his heart was complete. It was one of those spacious farm-houses, with high-ridged, but lowly-sloping...
Page 290 - ... parson. Certain it is, his voice resounded far above all the rest of the congregation ; and' there are peculiar quavers still to be heard in that church, and which may even be heard half a mile off, quite to the opposite side of the mill-pond, on a still Sunday morning, which are said to be legitimately descended from the nose of Ichabod Crane. Thus, by divers little make-shifts, in that ingenious way which is commonly denominated "by hook and by crook...