The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, Band 2J. Murray, 1822 - 393 Seiten |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 1-5 von 29
Seite 9
... told Christmas tales . One of the least pleasing effects of modern refinement is the havoc it has made among the hearty old holyday customs . It has completely taken off the sharp touchings and spirited reliefs of these embellishments ...
... told Christmas tales . One of the least pleasing effects of modern refinement is the havoc it has made among the hearty old holyday customs . It has completely taken off the sharp touchings and spirited reliefs of these embellishments ...
Seite 35
... told me , by one of his ancestors , who returned with that monarch at the Restoration . The grounds about the house were laid out in the old formal manner of ar- tificial flower beds , clipped shrubberies , raised terraces , and heavy ...
... told me , by one of his ancestors , who returned with that monarch at the Restoration . The grounds about the house were laid out in the old formal manner of ar- tificial flower beds , clipped shrubberies , raised terraces , and heavy ...
Seite 36
... told , was extremely careful to preserve this obsolete finery in all its original state . He admired this fashion in gardening ; it had an air of magni- ficence , was courtly and noble , and befitting good old family style . The boasted ...
... told , was extremely careful to preserve this obsolete finery in all its original state . He admired this fashion in gardening ; it had an air of magni- ficence , was courtly and noble , and befitting good old family style . The boasted ...
Seite 46
... told , of the establishment , and though ostensibly a resident of the village , was oftener to be found in the Squire's kitchen than his own home , the old gentleman being fond of the sound of " Harp in hall . " The dance , like most ...
... told , of the establishment , and though ostensibly a resident of the village , was oftener to be found in the Squire's kitchen than his own home , the old gentleman being fond of the sound of " Harp in hall . " The dance , like most ...
Seite 59
... told me that , according to the most ancient and approved treatise on hunting , I must say a muster of peacocks . " In the same way , " added he , with a slight air of pedantry , " we say a flight of doves or swallows , a bevy of quails ...
... told me that , according to the most ancient and approved treatise on hunting , I must say a muster of peacocks . " In the same way , " added he , with a slight air of pedantry , " we say a flight of doves or swallows , a bevy of quails ...
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
ancient Avon Baltus Van Tassel beautiful bosom Brom Bones brook Canonchet Charlecot charm cheer Christmas church churchyard companion cudgel customs dance dark delight dish door face fancied favourite fearful feelings fellow festivity fire forest Frank Bracebridge gathered ghost goblin grave green hall hand haunted head heard heart holyday honour horse humour hung Ichabod Ichabod Crane Indian Izaak Walton John Bull Justice Shallow kind lady Lambs land Little Britain look Lord mansion Master Simon merry mind mingled Narrhagansets nature neighbourhood neighbours ness night old English old gentleman parson passed Philip POKANOKET Poor Robin's Almanack pride quiet racter renegado round rustic Sachem savage scene seemed Shakspeare side Sleepy Hollow sometimes song sound spirit Squire steed story Stratford stream thee thing Thomas Lucy thought tion trees tribes turn village Wampanoags wandering warrior Wassail whole wild window worthy young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 12 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, This 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.
Seite 329 - 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...
Seite 353 - All was now bustle and hubbub in the late quiet school-room. The scholars were hurried through their lessons, without stopping at trifles ; those who were nimble, skipped over half with impunity, and those who were tardy, had a smart application now and then in the rear, to quicken their speed, or help them over a tall word.
Seite 341 - 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...
Seite 370 - What passed at this interview I will not pretend to say, for in fact I do not know. Something, however, I fear me, must have gone wrong, for he certainly sallied forth, after no very great interval, with an air quite desolate and chapfallen.
Seite 324 - It is remarkable that the visionary propensity •I have mentioned is not confined to the native Y 2 inhabitants of the valley, but is unconsciously imbibed by every one who resides there for a time. However wide awake they may have been before they entered that sleepy region, they are sure, in a little time, to inhale the witching influence of the air, and begin to grow imaginative — to dream dreams, and see apparitions.
Seite 158 - ... extremely awful. If they are indeed his own, they show that solicitude about the quiet of the grave which seems natural to fine sensibilities and thoughtful minds. " Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbeare To dig the dust enclosed here.
Seite 361 - And then there were apple pies and peach pies and pumpkin pies; besides slices of ham and smoked beef; and moreover delectable dishes of preserved plums, and peaches, and pears, and quinces; not to mention broiled shad and roasted chickens; together with bowls of milk and cream, all mingled higgledypiggledy, pretty much as I have enumerated them, with the motherly teapot sending up its clouds of vapor from the midst — Heaven bless the mark!
Seite 356 - ... screaming and chattering, nodding and bobbing and bowing, and pretending to be on good terms with every songster of the grove. As Ichabod jogged slowly on his way, his eye, ever open to every symptom of culinary abundance, ranged with delight over the treasures of jolly autumn.
Seite 356 - The forests had put on their sober brown and yellow, while some trees of the tenderer kind had been nipped by the frosts into brilliant dyes of orange, purple, and scarlet. Streaming files of wild ducks began to make their appearance high in the air ; the bark of the squirrel might be heard from the groves of beech and hickory nuts, and the pensive whistle of the quail at intervals from the neighboring stubble-field.