The Crayon Papers - Salmagundi

The Crayon Papers - Salmagundi von Irving Washington (Autor)

Autor: Irving, Washington

Verleger: HESPERIDES PR

Genre: Taschenbuch/Belletristik/Romane/Erzählungen

ISBN: 1408626470

EAN/ISBN-13: 9781408626474

Sprache: eng

Veröffentlichung: Oktober 2007


 
 
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THE CRAYON PAPERS - CONTENTS . PAGE IOUN JO T Y ...................................................................... 5 THEG REAT ISSISSIPP B I U BBL . E . ................................................. 41 DONJ UAN-A Spectral Research .................................................. 70 BROEG O R THE DUTCHP ARADIS . E .. ............................................... 78 SKETCHE I S N PARIS. 1 2 My French Neighbor the Englishman at Paris Eng lish and French Character the Tuileries and Windsor Castle the Field of Waterloo Paris at the Restoration ......................................... 83 AXEKICANRE SEARCHE IN S ITALY-Life of Tasso Recovery of a Lost Portrait of Dante ......................................................................... I01 THE TAKING O F THE VEIL . ........................................................ 106 THE CHARMINLGE TORIERE .. S . ................................................... 113 THEE ARLYE XPERIEPFC O E F S R ALPHR INGWOO . D .. ............................ 116 THE S INOLES-Origin of the Irhite, Red, and Black Nen the Conspiracy of Neawthla .................................................................... 144 LETTER P ROX GRANAD . A .. ................................................... 155 ABDERAHMAFONU, NDEORF THE DYNASTY OF THE OMXIADE IN S SPAIN . ............ 161 THE WIDOWSO RDEA . L .. .......................................................... 179 THEC REOLEV ILLAGE .. ........................................................... l89 A CONTENTE M D A N . ... L.................................... ., . ................... fsg THE CRAYON PAPERS. BY GEOFFREY CRAYON. GENT. OR SOME PASSAGES OUT OF THE LIFE OF A CASTLE-BUILDER. I was born amongromantic scenery, in one of the wildest parts of the Hudson, which at that time was not so thickly settled as at present. My father was descended from one of the old Huguenot families, that came over to this country on 6he revocation of the edict of Nantz. He lived in a style5of easy, rural independence, on a patrimonial estate that had been for two or three generations in the family. He was an indolent, good-natured man, who took the world as it went, and had a kind of laughing philosophy, that parried all rubs . and rnishaps, and served him in the place of wisdom. This was the part of his character least to my taste for I was of an enthusiastic, excitable temperament, prone to kindle up with new schemes and projects, and he was apt to dash my saillying enthusiasm by some unlucky joke so that whenever I was in a glow with any sudden excitement, I stood in mortal dread of his good-llumor. Yet he indulged me in every vagary for I was an only son, and of course a personage of importance in the household. I had two sisters older than myself, and one younger. The former were educated at New Park, under the eye of a maiden aunb the latter remained at home, and was my cherished playmate, the companion of my thoughts. We were - two imaginative little beings, of quick susceptibility, and prone to see wonders and mysteries in everything around us. Scarce had we learned to read, when our mother made us holiday presents of all the nursery literature of the day which at that time consisted of little books covered with gilt paper, adorned with cuts, and filled with titles of fairies, giants, and enchanters. What draughts of delightful fiction did we then inhale My sister Sophy was of a soft andtender nature. She would weep over the woes of the Children in the Wood, or quake at the dark romance of Bluc-Beard, and the terrible mysteries of the blue chamber. Cut I was all for enterprise and adventure...

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