The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, Volume 2J. Murray, 1821 - 343 pages |
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... round upon the comfortable chamber and the scene of domestic hilarity ? The English , from the great prevalence of rural habits throughout every class of society , have always been fond of those festivals and holydays which agreeably ...
... round upon the comfortable chamber and the scene of domestic hilarity ? The English , from the great prevalence of rural habits throughout every class of society , have always been fond of those festivals and holydays which agreeably ...
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... round the hearth , beguiling the long evening with legendary jokes and oft - told Christmas tales . One of the least pleasing effects of modern re- finement is the havoc it has made among the hearty old holyday customs . It has ...
... round the hearth , beguiling the long evening with legendary jokes and oft - told Christmas tales . One of the least pleasing effects of modern re- finement is the havoc it has made among the hearty old holyday customs . It has ...
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... round the anvil suspend their ringing ham- mers , and suffer the iron to grow cool ; and the sooty spectre in brown paper cap , labouring at the bellows , leans on the handle for a moment , and permits the asthmatic engine to heave a ...
... round the anvil suspend their ringing ham- mers , and suffer the iron to grow cool ; and the sooty spectre in brown paper cap , labouring at the bellows , leans on the handle for a moment , and permits the asthmatic engine to heave a ...
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... round with copper and tin vessels highly polished , and decorated here and there with a Christmas green . Hams , tongues , and flitches of bacon , were suspended from the ceiling ; a smoke - jack made its ceaseless clanking beside the ...
... round with copper and tin vessels highly polished , and decorated here and there with a Christmas green . Hams , tongues , and flitches of bacon , were suspended from the ceiling ; a smoke - jack made its ceaseless clanking beside the ...
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... round him with trans- port : - " How often , " said he , " have I scampered up this avenue , on returning home on school va- cations ! How often have I played under these trees when a boy ! I feel a degree of filial re- verence for them ...
... round him with trans- port : - " How often , " said he , " have I scampered up this avenue , on returning home on school va- cations ! How often have I played under these trees when a boy ! I feel a degree of filial re- verence for them ...
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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...