The Works of Washington Irving: Crayon miscellanyGeorge P. Putnam, 1851 |
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Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot
Frases i termes més freqüents
Abbey Abbotsford ancient animal Annesley Hall Arkansas arrived banks Beatte beautiful beheld border buffalo camp Captain CHAPTER chase Chaworth Colonel Wildman companions course cross Cross Timber deer distance encampment fancy favorite feelings fire forest Fork Fort Gibson friars frontier gallop gave gazed grazing ground grove half-breeds head heard heart herbage hill hunters hunting Indian Joe Murray Johnny Bower kind length little Frenchman Little White Lady looked Lord Byron mansion miles morning mounted neighborhood neighboring Newstead Newstead Abbey night old Ryan once Osage Osage Agency pack-horses party passed Pawnees poor prairies ramble rangers ravine rifle river Robin Hood ruins saddle scene Scott seemed seen Sherwood Forest shot sight skirts songs soon spirit steed stood story stream thickets Thomas the Rhymer Tonish took track trees troop valley walk wandered wild horse wood young Count
Passatges populars
Pàgina 190 - IF thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray.
Pàgina 314 - Was traced, — and then it faded as it came, And he stood calm and quiet, and he spoke The fitting vows, but heard not his own words, And all things reel'd around him...
Pàgina 296 - t were the cape of a long ridge of such, Save that there was no sea to lave its base, But a most living landscape, and the wave Of woods and cornfields, and the abodes of men Scatter'd at intervals, and wreathing smoke Arising from such rustic roofs...
Pàgina 271 - I did remind thee of our own dear Lake, By the old Hall which may be mine no more. Leman's is fair ; but think not I forsake The sweet remembrance of a dearer shore: Sad havoc Time must with my memory make Ere that or thou can fade these eyes before; Though, like all things which I have loved, they are Resign'd for ever, or divided far.
Pàgina 304 - His bow'd head on his hands, and shook as 'twere With a convulsion — then arose again, And with his teeth and quivering hands did tear What he had written, but he shed no tears And he did calm himself, and fix his brow Into a kind of quiet...
Pàgina 221 - Her shirt was o' the grass-green silk, Her mantle o' the velvet fyne ; At ilka tett of her horse's mane, Hung fifty siller bells and nine. True Thomas, he...
Pàgina 314 - I saw him stand Before an Altar — with a gentle bride ; Her face was fair, but was not that which made The starlight of his Boyhood ; — as he stood Even at the altar, o'er his brow there came The self-same aspect, and the quivering shock That in the antique Oratory shook His bosom in its solitude ; and then — As in that hour — a moment o'er his face The tablet of unutterable thoughts Was traced, — and then it faded as it came, And he stood calm and quiet, and...
Pàgina 313 - They had not their own lustre, but the look Which is not of the earth ; she was become The queen of a fantastic realm ; her thoughts Were combinations of disjointed things ; And forms impalpable and unperceived Of others
Pàgina 312 - What could her grief be?— she had all she loved, And he who had so loved her was not there To trouble with bad hopes, or evil wish, Or ill-repress'd affliction, her pure thoughts.
Pàgina 271 - I feel almost at times as I have felt In happy childhood; trees, and flowers, and brooks, Which do remember me of where I dwelt Ere my young mind was sacrificed to books, Come as of yore upon me, and can melt My heart with recognition of their looks; And even at moments I could think I see Some living thing to love— but none like thee.