Legends of Terror!: And Tales of the Wonderful and Wild ; Original and Select, in Prose and VerseSherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 1826 - 642 pages |
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... daugh- ter's living . His first looks at day- break , and his last at night - fall , were given to the Redrich , and each time he could see Garlinda on its summit , stretching out her little arms in mourn- ful greeting to her father ...
... daugh- ter's living . His first looks at day- break , and his last at night - fall , were given to the Redrich , and each time he could see Garlinda on its summit , stretching out her little arms in mourn- ful greeting to her father ...
Page 83
... child ; I am preparing for you a dowry , such as was never yet given to the daughter of a king . " Thus rolled ... daugh- ter's hand . Go forth , my young knight , and heaven's blessing go with you . " have heard , it seems , of ...
... child ; I am preparing for you a dowry , such as was never yet given to the daughter of a king . " Thus rolled ... daugh- ter's hand . Go forth , my young knight , and heaven's blessing go with you . " have heard , it seems , of ...
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... daugh- revealing it . You have long treated ter , let me spare you the necessity of me with the affection of a father . Wor- thy Alcouz , give me with Leilah's hand a title to the name of son . " The good old man was unable to ducting ...
... daugh- revealing it . You have long treated ter , let me spare you the necessity of me with the affection of a father . Wor- thy Alcouz , give me with Leilah's hand a title to the name of son . " The good old man was unable to ducting ...
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... daugh- ter in an eventful hour . The balance of her fate is equally poised between hap- piness and misery . The stars are not unpropitious , but an unfriendly gleam threatens to rob her of a mother's fos- tering care . " The tender ...
... daugh- ter in an eventful hour . The balance of her fate is equally poised between hap- piness and misery . The stars are not unpropitious , but an unfriendly gleam threatens to rob her of a mother's fos- tering care . " The tender ...
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... daugh- ter of this earth , but an evil spirit let loose in the world to bring to the dust the noble house of Heron , but it can- not be , and yet I have heard it said as truth , that on Midsummer eve she has been seen with flashing eyes ...
... daugh- ter of this earth , but an evil spirit let loose in the world to bring to the dust the noble house of Heron , but it can- not be , and yet I have heard it said as truth , that on Midsummer eve she has been seen with flashing eyes ...
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Page 601 - The children of the village too would shout with joy whenever he approached. He assisted at their sports, made their playthings, taught them to fly kites and shoot marbles, and told them long stories of ghosts, witches, and Indians. Whenever he went dodging about the village, he was surrounded by a troop of them, hanging on his skirts, clambering on his back, and playing a thousand tricks on him with impunity ; and not a dog would bark at him throughout the neighborhood.
Page 604 - 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 603 - Rip now felt a vague apprehension stealing over him; he looked anxiously in the same direction, and perceived a strange figure slowly toiling up the rocks, and bending under the weight of something he carried on his back. He was surprised to see any human being in this lonely and unfrequented place, but supposing it to be some one of the neighborhood in need of his assistance, he hastened down to yield it.
Page 605 - 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. 'My very dog,' sighed poor Rip, 'has forgotten me!
Page 601 - It could not be from the want of assiduity or perseverance; for he would sit on a wet rock, with a rod as long and heavy as a Tartar's lance, and fish all day without a murmur, even though he should not be encouraged by a single nibble.
Page 608 - Half-moon ; being permitted in this way to revisit the scenes, of his enterprise, and keep a guardian eye upon the river and the great city called by his name; that his father had once seen them in their old Dutch dresses playing at ninepins in...
Page 605 - These mountain beds do not agree with me," thought Rip, " and if this frolic should lay me up with a fit of the rheumatism, I shall have a blessed time with Dame Van Winkle." With some difficulty he got down into the glen : he found the gully up which he and his companion had ascended the preceding evening ; but to his astonishment a mountain stream was now foaming down it, leaping from rock to rock, and filling the glen with babbling murmurs. He, however, made shift to scramble up its sides, working...
Page 603 - On nearer approach he was still more surprised at the singularity of the stranger's appearance. He was a short, square-built old fellow, with thick bushy hair, and a grizzled beard.
Page 600 - WHOEVER has made a voyage up the Hudson must remember the Kaatskill mountains. They are a dismembered branch of the great Appalachian family, and are seen away to the west of the river, swelling up to a noble height, and lording it over the surrounding country.
Page 607 - The name of the child, the air of the mother, the tone of her voice, all awakened a train of recollections in his mind. "What is your name, my good woman?