 | Emma Miller Bolenius - 1926 - Страниц: 648
...odd mixture of small shrewdness and simple credulity. His appetite for the marvelous, and his powers of digesting it, were equally extraordinary; and both...Mather's direful tales, until the gathering dusk of evening made the printed page a mere mist before his eyes. Then, as he wended his way by swamp and... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1983 - Страниц: 1198
...odd mixture of small shrewdness and simple credulity. His appetite for the marvellous, and his powers of digesting it, were equally extraordinary; and both had been increased by his residence in this spell bound region. No tale was too gross or monstrous for his capacious swallow. It was often his... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1991 - Страниц: 100
...odd mixture of small shrewdness and simple credulity. His appetite for the marvelous, and his powers of digesting it, were equally extraordinary; and both...rich bed of clover, bordering the little brook that Avhimpered by his schoolhouse, and there con over old Mather's direful tales, until the gathering dusk... | |
 | Washington Irving, Haskell S. Springer - 1999 - Страниц: 372
...odd mixture of small shrewdness and simple credulity. His appetite for the marvellous, and his powers of digesting it, were equally extraordinary; and both had been increased by his residence in this spell bound region. No tale was too gross or monstrous for his capacious swallow. It was often his... | |
 | Christa Grewe-Volpp, Werner Reinhart - 2003 - Страниц: 382
...digesting it, were equally extraordinary; and both had increased by his residence in this spell bound region. No tale was too gross or monstrous for his capacious swallow" (277). Zentrales Objekt der Begierde für Ichabod ist eine Frau, die die Erfüllung seines physischen,... | |
 | Readpal - 2005 - Страниц: 195
...odd mixture of small shrewdness and simple credulity. His appetite for the marvelous, and his powers of digesting it, were equally extraordinary; and both...Mather's direful tales, until the gathering dusk of evening made the printed page a mere mist before his eyes. Then, as he wended his way by swamp and... | |
 | Washington Irving - 2007 - Страниц: 105
...odd mixture of small shrewdness and simple credulity. His appetite for the marvelous, and his powers of digesting it, were equally extraordinary; and both...his delight, after his school was dismissed in the 26 The Legend ofSkepy Hollow afternoon, to stretch himself on the rich bed of clover bordering the... | |
 | Washington Irving - 2007 - Страниц: 48
...address. His appetite tor the marvelous, and his powers of digesting it, were equally extraordinary. Both had been increased by his residence in this spellbound...too gross or monstrous for his capacious swallow. A source of fearful pleasure was to pass long -winter evenings with the old Dutch wives, as they sat... | |
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Witchcraft, in which, by the way, he most firmly and potently believed. He was, in fact, an odd mixture of small shrewdness and simple credulity. His appetite for the marvellous, and his powers of digesting it, were equally extraordinary ; and both had... 
