Chronicles of Wolfert's Roost and Other PapersBernhard Tauchnitz, 1855 - 386 pages |
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... the Hollow , abounding in that valuable information never to be acquired from books . Diedrich Knicker- bocker soon discovered his merit . They had long talks together seated on a broken millstone , heedless of WOLFERT'S ROOST . 21.
... the Hollow , abounding in that valuable information never to be acquired from books . Diedrich Knicker- bocker soon discovered his merit . They had long talks together seated on a broken millstone , heedless of WOLFERT'S ROOST . 21.
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... seated at a window and gazing at the moon , from a room in which a young lady is said to have died of love and green apples . Mementoes of the sojourn of Diedrich Knicker- bocker are still cherished at the Roost . His elbow- chair and ...
... seated at a window and gazing at the moon , from a room in which a young lady is said to have died of love and green apples . Mementoes of the sojourn of Diedrich Knicker- bocker are still cherished at the Roost . His elbow- chair and ...
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... seated herself upon the rustic bench , and I went into a full history of the footstep , with all the associations of idea that had been conjured up by my imagination . Sophy was enchanted ; it was like a fairy tale . She had read of ...
... seated herself upon the rustic bench , and I went into a full history of the footstep , with all the associations of idea that had been conjured up by my imagination . Sophy was enchanted ; it was like a fairy tale . She had read of ...
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Washington Irving. playing some favourite Scotch airs on the piano , while Glencoe , seated apart , with his forehead resting on his hand , was buried in one of those pensive reveries , that made him so interesting to me . " What a ...
Washington Irving. playing some favourite Scotch airs on the piano , while Glencoe , seated apart , with his forehead resting on his hand , was buried in one of those pensive reveries , that made him so interesting to me . " What a ...
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... seated . I descended to the margin of the river , and drawing the bark to shore , admired its light and elegant proportions , and the taste with which it was fitted up . The benches were covered with cushions , and its long streamer was ...
... seated . I descended to the margin of the river , and drawing the bark to shore , admired its light and elegant proportions , and the taste with which it was fitted up . The benches were covered with cushions , and its long streamer was ...
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Page 106 - 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.
Page 106 - All things in common nature should produce Without sweat or endeavour: treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine, Would I not have; but nature should bring forth, Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people.
Page 342 - Knowledge before — a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy.
Page 94 - 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.
Page 334 - 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.
Page 27 - Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear ; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year...
Page 29 - The rice swamps 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.
Page 46 - 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.
Page 30 - In a word, the almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages...
Page 26 - 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.