 ... the ghost rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his head, and that the rushing speed with which he sometimes passes along the Hollow like a midnight blast is owing to his being belated and in a hurry to get back to the churchyard...  The Quarterly Review - Seite 59herausgegeben von - 1821Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Washington Irving - 1820 - 438 Seiten
...collating the floating facts concerning this spectre, allege that, the body of the trooper having been buried in the church-yard, the ghost rides forth to...battle in nightly quest of his head ; and that the rushing speed with which he sometimes passes along the Hollow, like a midnight blast, is owing to his... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero - 1821 - 612 Seiten
...a complaisant look about the little parlour of the Red Horse at Stratford on Avon.' — vol. ii. p. 174. ' John Bull' is a clever allegory, and if we...in a hurry to reach the churchyard before daybreak. ' In this by-place of nature there abode, in a remote period of American history, that is to say some... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1821 - 366 Seiten
...collating the floating facts concerning this spectre, allege that, the body of the trooper having been buried in the churchyard, the ghost rides forth to...battle in nightly quest of his head ; and that the rushing speed with which he sometimes passes along the Hollow, like a midnight blast, is owing to his... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 Seiten
...collating the floating facts concerning this spectre, allege that, the body of the trooper having been buried in the churchyard, the ghost rides forth to...battle in nightly quest of his head; and that the rushing speed with which he sometimes passes along the Hollow, like a midnight blast, is owing to his... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1830 - 346 Seiten
...collating the floating facts concerning this spectre, allege, that the body of the trooper having been buried in the churchyard, the ghost rides forth to...battle in nightly quest of his head ; and that the rushing speed with which he sometimes passes along the Hollow, like a midnight blast, is owing to his... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1834 - 334 Seiten
...collating the floating facts concerning this spectre, allege that, the body of the trooper having been buried in the churchyard, the ghost rides forth to...battle in nightly quest of his head ; and that the rushing speed with which he sometimes passes along the Hollow, like a midnight blast, is owing to his... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1835 - 284 Seiten
...the floating facts concerning this spectre, allege that, the body of the trooper having been burned in the church-yard, the ghost rides forth to the scene...battle in nightly quest of his head; and that the rushing speed with which he sometimes passes along the Hollow, like a midnight blast, is owing to his... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1836 - 274 Seiten
...floating facts VOL. II. T concerning this spectre, allege, that the body of the trooper having been buried in the churchyard, the ghost rides forth to the scene of battle iu nightly quest of his head, and that the rushing speed with which he sometimes passes along the hollow,... | |
 | 1841 - 456 Seiten
...collating the floating facts concerning this spectre, allege that the body of the trooper, having been buried in the church-yard, the ghost rides forth to...battle in nightly quest of his head ; and that the rushing speed with which he sometimes passes along the Hollow, like a midnight blast, is owing to his... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1848 - 478 Seiten
...collating the floating facts concerning this spectre, allege that the body of the trooper, having been buried in the church-yard, the ghost rides forth to...battle in nightly quest of his head ; and that the rushing speed with which he sometimes passes along the Hollow, like a midnigh» blast, is owing to... | |
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