The Casquet of Literary Gems, Volume 1

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Alexander Whitelaw
Blackie, Fullarton & Company, 1828
 

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Pagina 252 - and waters are; I could lie down like a tired child. And weep away the life of care Which I have borne and yet must bear, Till death like sleep might steal on me, And I might feel in the warm air My cheek grow cold,
Pagina 251 - buds; Like many a voice of one delight. The winds, the birds, the ocean floods, The city's voice itself is soft, like solitude's. I see the deep's untrampled floor With green and purple sea-weeds strewn ; I see the waves upon the shore. Like light dissolved in star-showers thrown. I sit upon the
Pagina 255 - ing and fatigued, he threw himself, late in the afternoon, on a green knoll, covered with mountain herbage, that crowned the brow of a precipice. From an opening between the trees, he could overlook all the lower country for many a mile of rich woodland. He saw at a distance the
Pagina 257 - hooting after him, and pointing at his gray beard. The dogs too, not one of which he recognized for an old acquaintance, barked at him as he passed. 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
Pagina 259 - once seen them in their old Dutch dresses playing at nine pins in a hollow of the mountain ; and that he himself had heard, one summer afternoon,, the sound of their balls, like distant peals of thunder. To make a long story short, the company broke up, and returned to the more
Pagina 258 - heels, soon attracted the attention of the tavern politicians. They crowded round him, eyeing him from head to foot with great curiosity. The orator bustled up to him, and drawing him partly aside, inquired " on which side he voted ?" Rip stared in vacant stupidity. Another short but busy little fellow pulled him by the arm, and rising
Pagina 255 - path conducted. He paused for an instant, but supposing it to be the muttering of one of those transient thunder showers which often take place in mountain heights, he proceeded. Passing through the ravine, they came to a hollow, like a small amphitheatre, surrounded by perpendicular precipices, over the brinks of which impending trees shot their
Pagina 258 - pockets full of handbills, was haranguing vehemently about rights of citizens—elections—members of congress—libertyBunker's hill—heroes of seventy-six—and other words, that were a perfect Babylonish jargon to the bewildered Van Winkle. The appearance of Rip, with his long grizzled beard, his rusty fowling piece, his uncouth dress, and the army of women and children that had gathered at
Pagina 112 - both the children gradually grew fainter to my view, receding, and still receding, till nothing at last but two mournful features were seen in the uttermost distance, which, without speech, strangely impressed upon me the effects of speech; " We are not of Alice, nor of thee, nor are we children at all. The children of Alice call
Pagina 60 - play'd them one as frank— For time at last sets all things even— And if we do but watch the hour, There never yet was human power Which could evade, if unforgiven, The patient search and vigil long Of him who treasures up a wrong. Away, away, my steed and

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