| Christian Brothers - 1884 - 516 pages
...in dignified historical narrative. His works may be studied as models of English style. T^f 7HOEYER has made a voyage up the Hudson must ' remember the...country. Every change of season, every change of weather, iucleed every hour of the day, produces somo change in the magical hues and shapes of these mountains,... | |
| Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1885 - 440 pages
...the banks of the Hudson, the legend arose of his haunting the Kaatskill Mountains as here described. WHOEVER has made a voyage up the Hudson must remember...the day, produces some change in the magical hues and shapes of these mountains, and they are regarded by all the goodwives as perfect barometers. When... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1885 - 224 pages
...VAN WINKLE.— I. Whoever has made a voyage up the Hudson must remember the Catskill mountains. They are seen away to the west of the river, swelling up...the day, produces some change in the magical hues and shapes of these mountains, and they are regarded by all the good wives, far and near, as perfect... | |
| William Swinton - 1885 - 620 pages
...the Sketch-Book.] FIRST READING. WHOEVER has made a voyage up the Hudson must remembertheKaatskiil1 Mountains. They are a dismembered branch of the great...swelling up to a noble height, and lording it over 2 the surrounding country. Every change of season, every change of weather, indeed every hour of the... | |
| William Swinton - 1885 - 624 pages
...published his History of New York, ten years before the appearance of the Sketch- Book.} FIRST READING. WHOEVER has made a voyage up the Hudson must remember the Kaatskill l Mountains. They are a dismembered branch of the great Appalachian family, and are seen away to the... | |
| Washington Irving - 1886 - 522 pages
...Waterloo Medal, or a Queen Auue's Farthing.] YI7 HOEVER has made a voyage up the Hudson must remem* * ber the Kaatskill mountains. They are a dismembered branch...the day, produces some change in the magical hues and shapes of these mountains, and they are regarded by all the good wives, far and near, as perfect... | |
| J. Scott Clark - 1886 - 410 pages
...certain objects gives peculiar vividness in Description. Take the following (the italics are ours) : " Whoever has made a voyage up the Hudson must remember...height, and lording it over the surrounding country." — " Sketch- Book.'" "They left the high-road by a well-remembered lane, and soon approached a mansion... | |
| Mark Twain - 1888 - 748 pages
...Minister at Madrid. In 1846 he returned finally to America, and died at Sunnyside on the Hudson in 1859. WHOEVER has made a voyage up the Hudson must remember...the day, produces some change in the magical hues and shapes of these mountains, and they are regarded by all the good wives, far and near, as perfect... | |
| Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 566 pages
...Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 1820.] A POSTHUMOUS WRITING OF DIEDRICH KNICKERBOCKER. TTTHOEVER has made a voyage up the Hudson must remember the...the day, produces some change in the magical hues and shapes of these mountains, and they are regarded by all the good-wives, far and near, as perfect... | |
| Washington Irving - 1888 - 624 pages
...stamped on a Waterloo medal or a Queen Anne's farthing.] X 1 7HOEVER has made a voyage up the HudVV son must remember the Kaatskill mountains. They are a...the day, produces some change in the magical hues and shapes of these mountains, and^they are regarded by all the good wives, far and near, as perfect... | |
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