The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. [pseud.] ...A. and W. Galignani, 1824 |
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... give equal disappointment with an unlucky landscape painter , who had travelled on the continent , but following the bent of his vagrant inclina- tion , had sketched in nooks , and corners , and bye - places . His sketch - book was ...
... give equal disappointment with an unlucky landscape painter , who had travelled on the continent , but following the bent of his vagrant inclina- tion , had sketched in nooks , and corners , and bye - places . His sketch - book was ...
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... give him entrance . A fine day , however , with a tranquil sea and favouring breeze , soon put all these dis- mal reflections to flight . It is impossible to resist the gladdening influence of fine weather and fair wind at sea . When ...
... give him entrance . A fine day , however , with a tranquil sea and favouring breeze , soon put all these dis- mal reflections to flight . It is impossible to resist the gladdening influence of fine weather and fair wind at sea . When ...
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... give its own im- press to surrounding objects . Like his own Lorenzo De ' Medici , on whom he seems to have fixed his eye as on a pure model of antiquity , he has interwoven the history of his life with the history of his native town ...
... give its own im- press to surrounding objects . Like his own Lorenzo De ' Medici , on whom he seems to have fixed his eye as on a pure model of antiquity , he has interwoven the history of his life with the history of his native town ...
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... gives the nameless grace to real excellence , may cause him to be undervalued by some coarse minds , who do not know that true worth is always void of glare and pretension . But the man of letters who speaks of Liverpool , speaks of it ...
... gives the nameless grace to real excellence , may cause him to be undervalued by some coarse minds , who do not know that true worth is always void of glare and pretension . But the man of letters who speaks of Liverpool , speaks of it ...
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... give such intrepidity and elevation to their character , that at times it approaches to sub- limity . Nothing can be more touching than to behold a soft and tender female , who had been all weakness and dependence , and alive to every ...
... give such intrepidity and elevation to their character , that at times it approaches to sub- limity . Nothing can be more touching than to behold a soft and tender female , who had been all weakness and dependence , and alive to every ...
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Page 88 - Nicholas Vedder?" There was a silence for a little while, when an old man replied, in a thin piping voice, "Nicholas Vedder! why, he is dead and gone these eighteen years! There was a wooden tombstone in the church-yard that used to tell all about him, but that's rotten and gone too.
Page 289 - Say I died true. My love was false, but I was firm, From my hour of birth, Upon my buried body lie Lightly, gentle earth.
Page 12 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The 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.
Page 83 - The very village was altered; it was larger and more populous. There were rows of houses which he had never seen before, and those which had been his familiar haunts had disappeared. Strange names were over the doors, strange faces at the windows — everything was strange.
Page 80 - He now suspected that the grave roysters of the mountain had put a trick upon him, and, having dosed him with liquor, had robbed him of his gun. Wolf, too, had disappeared, but he might have strayed away after a squirrel or partridge. He whistled after him and shouted his name, but all in vain; the echoes repeated his whistle and shout, but no dog was to be seen.
Page 274 - This is the prettiest low-born lass that ever Ran on the green-sward : nothing she does or seems But smacks of something greater than herself, Too noble for this place.
Page 84 - ... the way to his own house, which he approached with silent awe, expecting every moment to hear the shrill voice of Dame Van Winkle. He found the house gone to decay — the roof fallen in, the windows shattered, and the doors off the hinges. A half-starved dog, that looked like Wolf, was skulking about it. Rip called him by name, but the cur snarled, showed his teeth, and passed on. This was an unkind cut indeed.
Page 87 - ... knowing, self-important old gentleman, in a sharp cocked hat, made his way through the crowd, putting them to the right and left with his elbows as he passed, and planting himself before Van Winkle, with one arm akimbo, the other resting on his cane, his keen eyes and sharp hat penetrating, as it were, into his very soul, demanded, in an austere tone, "what brought him to the election with a gun on his shoulder and a mob at his heels, and whether he meant to breed a riot in the village?
Page 78 - ... countenances, that his heart turned within him, and his knees smote together. His companion now emptied the contents of the keg into large flagons, and made signs to him to wait upon the company. He obeyed with fear and trembling; they quaffed the liquor in profound silence, and then returned to their game.
Page 316 - ... so that though a thief might get in with perfect ease, he would find some embarrassment in getting out : an idea most probably borrowed by the architect, Yost Van Houten, from the mystery of an eel-pot.