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... story of the origin of our faith , and the pastoral scenes that accompanied its announcement . They gradually increase in fervour and pathos during the season of Advent , until they break forth in full jubilee on the morning that ...
... story of the origin of our faith , and the pastoral scenes that accompanied its announcement . They gradually increase in fervour and pathos during the season of Advent , until they break forth in full jubilee on the morning that ...
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... simple joy at seeing her young master . Her husband , it seemed , was up at the house keeping Christmas eve in the servant's hall ; they could not do without him , as he was the best hand at a song and story in the 32 CHRISTMAS EVE .
... simple joy at seeing her young master . Her husband , it seemed , was up at the house keeping Christmas eve in the servant's hall ; they could not do without him , as he was the best hand at a song and story in the 32 CHRISTMAS EVE .
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Washington Irving. the best hand at a song and story in the house- hold . My friend proposed that we should alight and walk through the park to the hall , which was at no great distance , while the chaise should follow on . Our road ...
Washington Irving. the best hand at a song and story in the house- hold . My friend proposed that we should alight and walk through the park to the hall , which was at no great distance , while the chaise should follow on . Our road ...
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... stories of early college pranks and adventures , in some of which the parson had been a sharer ; though in looking at ... story of the parson and a pretty milk - maid , whom they once met on the banks of the Isis , the old gentleman made ...
... stories of early college pranks and adventures , in some of which the parson had been a sharer ; though in looking at ... story of the parson and a pretty milk - maid , whom they once met on the banks of the Isis , the old gentleman made ...
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... story out of Joe Miller , that was pat to the purpose ; but he always stuck in the middle , every body recollecting the latter part excepting himself . The parson , too , began to show the effects of good cheer , having gradually ...
... story out of Joe Miller , that was pat to the purpose ; but he always stuck in the middle , every body recollecting the latter part excepting himself . The parson , too , began to show the effects of good cheer , having gradually ...
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Page 12 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes ', nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
Page 329 - With these he lived successively a week at a time; thus going the rounds of the neighbourhood, with all his worldly effects tied up in a cotton handkerchief. That all this might not be too onerous on the purses of his rustic patrons, who are apt to consider the costs of schooling a grievous burden, and schoolmasters as mere drones, he had various ways of rendering himself both useful and agreeable. He assisted the farmers occasionally in the lighter...
Page 353 - All was now bustle and hubbub in the late quiet school-room. The scholars were hurried through their lessons, without stopping at trifles ; those who were nimble, skipped over half with impunity, and those who were tardy, had a smart application now and then in the rear, to quicken their speed, or help them over a tall word.
Page 341 - Nay, his busy fancy already realized his hopes, and presented to him the blooming Katrina, with a whole family of children, mounted on the top of a waggon loaded with household trumpery, with pots and kettles dangling beneath ; and he beheld himself bestriding a pacing mare, with a colt at her heels, setting out for Kentucky, Tennessee, or the Lord knows where. When he entered the house the conquest of his heart was complete. It was one of those spacious farm-houses, with high-ridged, but lowly-sloping...
Page 370 - What passed at this interview I will not pretend to say, for in fact I do not know. Something, however, I fear me, must have gone wrong, for he certainly sallied forth, after no very great interval, with an air quite desolate and chapfallen.
Page 324 - It is remarkable that the visionary propensity •I have mentioned is not confined to the native Y 2 inhabitants of the valley, but is unconsciously imbibed by every one who resides there for a time. However wide awake they may have been before they entered that sleepy region, they are sure, in a little time, to inhale the witching influence of the air, and begin to grow imaginative — to dream dreams, and see apparitions.
Page 158 - ... extremely awful. If they are indeed his own, they show that solicitude about the quiet of the grave which seems natural to fine sensibilities and thoughtful minds. " Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbeare To dig the dust enclosed here.
Page 361 - And then there were apple pies and peach pies and pumpkin pies; besides slices of ham and smoked beef; and moreover delectable dishes of preserved plums, and peaches, and pears, and quinces; not to mention broiled shad and roasted chickens; together with bowls of milk and cream, all mingled higgledypiggledy, pretty much as I have enumerated them, with the motherly teapot sending up its clouds of vapor from the midst — Heaven bless the mark!
Page 356 - ... screaming and chattering, nodding and bobbing and bowing, and pretending to be on good terms with every songster of the grove. As Ichabod jogged slowly on his way, his eye, ever open to every symptom of culinary abundance, ranged with delight over the treasures of jolly autumn.
Page 356 - The forests had put on their sober brown and yellow, while some trees of the tenderer kind had been nipped by the frosts into brilliant dyes of orange, purple, and scarlet. Streaming files of wild ducks began to make their appearance high in the air ; the bark of the squirrel might be heard from the groves of beech and hickory nuts, and the pensive whistle of the quail at intervals from the neighboring stubble-field.