 | Washington Irving - 1983 - Страниц: 1198
...There was as usual a crowd of folk about the door; but none that Rip recollected. The very character of the people seemed changed. There was a busy, bustling...about it, instead of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquility. He looked in vain for the sage Nicholaus Vedder with his broad face, double chin and fair... | |
 | Merriam-Webster, Inc - 1984 - Страниц: 950
...preceding terms <he chose the eldest daughter whose numb composure he mistook for phlegm— Patton) <there was a busy, bustling, disputatious tone about...instead of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquillity — Irving) Ana poise, equipose, »balance, equilibrium: self-possession, self-assurance, aplomb (see... | |
 | A. Robert Lee - 1986 - Страниц: 216
...replaced by that of another George who carries a sword and not a sceptre; even the 'very character of the people seemed changed. There was a busy, bustling...of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquillity.' But despite the larger historical upheaval it is worth stressing that Rip's domestic scene has emphatically... | |
 | Gustavo Pérez Firmat - 1990 - Страниц: 412
...all, as a result of the arrival of democracy and its accompanying politics, "The very character of the people seemed changed. There was a busy, bustling...about it, instead of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquility" (37). Irving's view of the revolution which began forty-two years before he wrote "Rip... | |
 | Washington Irving, Thea Kliros - 1995 - Страниц: 84
...was, as usual, a crowd of folk about the door, but none that Rip recollected. The very character of the people seemed changed. There was a busy, bustling,...double chin, and fair long pipe, uttering clouds of tobacco smoke instead of idle speeches; or Van Bummel, the schoolmaster, doling forth the contents... | |
 | Christopher Looby - 1996 - Страниц: 304
...the people had changed too, and its change was also represented by an alteration of verbal phenomena: "There was a busy, bustling disputatious tone about it, instead of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquility." And the vocabulary of politics had undergone a decisive modification, as evidenced by... | |
 | Marc Egnal - 1996 - Страниц: 317
...world: "The very village was altered; it was larger and more populous. . . . The very character of the people seemed changed. There was a busy, bustling, disputatious tone about it." Rip Van Winkle (and Washington Irving) look at this new society and approve of what they see. 9 Writers... | |
 | Gregg Camfield - 1997 - Страниц: 255
...symbol of the past, is in ruins. When he goes to the village center, he finds "[t]he very character of the people seemed changed. There was a busy, bustling...tone about it, instead of the accustomed phlegm and tranquility" (48). Accused of being a traitor, he is in some physical danger, but his real woe is that... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1998 - Страниц: 840
...was, as usual, a crowd of folk about the door, but none that Rip recollected. The very character of the people seemed changed. There was a busy, bustling,...the contents of an ancient newspaper. In place of these, a lean, bilious-looking fellow, with his pockets full of handbills, was haranguing vehemently... | |
 | Paul Downes - 2002 - Страниц: 255
...phlegm and drowsy tranquility," Rip encounters everywhere "a busy, bustling, disputatious tone" (779). "He looked in vain for the sage Nicholas Vedder, with...uttering clouds of tobaccosmoke instead of idle speeches" but what he sees instead is "a lean billious-looking fellow, with his pockets full of hand-bills .... | |
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WASHINGTON. There was, as usual, a crowd of folk about the door, but none that Rip recollected. The very character of the people seemed changed. There was a busy, bustling, disputatious tone about it, instead of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquillity. 
