Homes of American Authors: Comprising Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches, by Various Writers ...This volume offers an 1853 collection of sketches on the residences of American authors, including Washington Irving's Sunnyside. |
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第 336 頁 - THE snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. Every pine and fir and hemlock Wore ermine too dear for an earl, And the poorest twig on the elm-tree Was ridged inch deep with pearl.
第 102 頁 - The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, - the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods - rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste, Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.
第 227 頁 - By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the world.
第 228 頁 - Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, and leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee.
第 271 頁 - Halfway up the stairs it stands, And points and beckons with its hands From its case of massive oak, Like a monk, who, under his cloak, Crosses himself, and sighs, alas ' With sorrowful voice to all who pass, — " Forever — never ! Never — forever...
第 336 頁 - The snow that husheth all, Darling, the merciful Father Alone can make it fall ! " Then, with eyes that saw not, I kissed her; And she, kissing back, could not know That my kiss was given to her sister, Folded close under deepening snow.
第 300 頁 - They rowed her in across the rolling foam, The cruel, crawling foam, The cruel, hungry foam, To her grave beside the sea ; But still the boatmen hear her call the cattle home Across the...
第 45 頁 - simmer it well : Sweeten jusv, to your own private liking, then strain, That only the finest and clearest remain : Let it stand out of doors till a soul it receives From the warm lazy sun loitering down through green leaves: And you'll find a choice nature, not wholly deserving A name either English or Yankee — just Irving.
第 254 頁 - Once, ah, once, within these walls, One whom memory oft recalls, The Father of his Country, dwelt. And yonder meadows broad and damp The fires of the besieging camp Encircled with a burning belt. Up and down these echoing stairs, Heavy with the weight of cares, Sounded his majestic tread ; Yes, within this very room Sat he in those hours of gloom, Weary both in heart and head.
第 346 頁 - A-raspin' on the scraper, — All ways to once her feelins flew Like sparks in burnt-up paper. He kin' o' 1'itered on the mat Some doubtfle o' the sekle, His heart kep' goin' pity-pat, But hern went pity Zekle.
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| 書名 | Homes of American Authors: Comprising Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches, by Various Writers ... American literary annuals and gift books, 1825-1865 |
| 彙編者 | George William Curtis |
| 插圖作者 | Hammatt Billings, Charles Martin, William Rickarby Miller, Richard Morrell Staigg, Cephas Giovanni Thompson, David Hunter Strother, Charles Lanman, John Rogers, Frederick W. Halpin, Henry Jordan, John B. Forrest, John A. Rolph, L. V. Hunt, Henry Bryan Hall, Thomas Phillibrown, Waterman Lilly Ormsby, Richardson & Cox, James Duthie |
| 著作人 | G.P. Putnam & Co |
| 出版者 | G. P. Putnam and Company, 1853 |
| 來源： | 牛津大學 |
| 已數位化 | 2006年12月4日 |
| 頁數 | 366 頁 |
| 匯出書目資料 | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |