The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner, Svazek 9American publishing Company, 1904 |
Další vydání - Zobrazit všechny
Běžně se vyskytující výrazy a sousloví
acres produced admiration agreeable Alhambra American Angeles beauty Boabdil Brevoort brilliant character charm climate coast color Colorado Desert cost of production court crop cultivation delight desert Dutch east English eyes fancy feel feet flowers friends fruit gardens genius Granada Grand Cañon heart hills horse humor hundred inches Indians irrigated Irving's Josiah Ogden Hoffman Knickerbocker labor ladies land letters literary literature living loam look Los Angeles lovely Mean Temperature ment miles mind months Moorish mountains nature net profit never night orange orchards passed Peter Stuyvesant picturesque Point Conception Pomona pounds profit queen rain region river romance San Bernardino San Diego sandy loam Santa Barbara scene scenery seal of Solomon seems Sierra Sketch-Book slopes society Soil sold Southern California Spain summer taste tion town traveler trees valley vines Washington Irving winter writes York young
Oblíbené pasáže
Strana 168 - ... mouth; the pigeons were snugly put to bed in a comfortable pie, and tucked in with a coverlet of crust; the geese were swimming in their own gravy, and the ducks pairing cosily in dishes, like snug married couples, with a decent competency of onion sauce. In the porkers he saw carved out the future sleek side of bacon, and juicy relishing ham; not a turkey but he beheld daintily trussed up, with its gizzard under its wing, and, peradventure, a necklace of savory sausages...
Strana 150 - ... and amber, which had been presented to a stadtholder of Holland, at the conclusion of a treaty with one of the petty Barbary powers. In this stately chair would he sit, and this magnificent pipe would he smoke, shaking his right knee with a constant motion, and fixing his eye, for hours together, upon a little print of Amsterdam, which hung in a black frame against the opposite wall of the council-chamber.
Strana 166 - ... in his eyes, more especially after he had visited her in her paternal mansion. Old Baltus Van Tassel was a perfect picture of a thriving, contented, liberalhearted farmer. He seldom, it is true, sent either his eyes or his thoughts beyond the boundaries of his own farm ; but within those everything was snug, happy, and well-conditioned.
Strana 244 - I consider a story merely as a frame on which to stretch my materials. It is the play of thought, and sentiment, and language; the weaving in of characters lightly, yet expressively, delineated; the familiar and faithful exhibition of scenes in common life; and the half -concealed vein of humor that is often playing through the whole;— these are among what I aim at, and upon which I felicitate myself in proportion as I think I succeed.
Strana 169 - ... eggs were suspended above it ; a great ostrich egg was hung from the centre of the room, and a corner cupboard, knowingly left open, displayed immense treasures of old silver and well-mended china." It is an abrupt transition from these homely scenes, which humor commends to our liking, to the chivalrous pageant unrolled for us in the " Conquest of Granada." The former are more characteristic and the more enduring of Irving's writings, but as a literary artist his genius lent itself just as readily...
Strana 167 - Hard by the farmhouse was a vast barn, that might have served for a church; every window and crevice of which seemed bursting forth with the treasures of the farm; the flail was busily resounding within it from morning to night ; swallows and martins skimmed twittering about the eaves ; and rows of pigeons, some with one eye turned up, as if watching the weather, some with their heads under their wings, or buried in their bosoms, and others swelling, and cooing, and bowing about their dames, were...
Strana 32 - Revolution. Never did the Revolution, its authors and its consequences, receive a more hearty and sincere execration than at that moment. Throughout the whole of my journey I had found reason to exclaim against it for depriving me of some valuable curiosity or celebrated monument, but this was the severest disappointment it had yet occasioned." This view of the Revolution is very characteristic of Irving, and perhaps the first that would occur to a man of letters. The journey was altogether disagreeable,...
Strana 245 - Arms; and about Robert Preston and the tallow-chandler's widow, whose sittingroom is second nature to me; and about all those delightful places and people that I used to walk about and dream of in the day-time, when a very small and not over-particularly-taken-care-of boy.
Strana 184 - We seem lifted up into a purer atmosphere ; we feel a serenity of soul, a buoyancy of spirits, an elasticity of frame, which render mere existence happiness. But when moonlight is added to all this, the effect is like enchantment. Under its plastic sway the Alhambra seems to regain its pristine glories. Every rent and chasm of time ; every mouldering tint and weather-stain is gone ; the marble resumes its original whiteness ; the long colonnades brighten in the moonbeams ; the halls are illuminated...
Strana 57 - DISTRESSING. Left his lodgings, some time since, and has not since been heard of, a small elderly gentleman, dressed in an old black coat and cocked hat, by the name of Knickerbocker. As there are some reasons for believing he is not entirely in his right mind, and as great anxiety is entertained about him, any information concerning him, left either at the Columbian Hotel, Mulberry Street, or at the office of this paper, will be thankfully received.