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3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"from": "human",
"value": "Hold the fort, for I am coming. The incongruity of this made him smile, and he did not write it. Finally he composed this message, which seemed to him to have a businesslike and innocent aspect:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Too late. Impossible for me to change. Ha... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The preacher might moralize here, said King."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here is the parting of the ways for the young man; here is a moment of calm in which he can decide which course he will take. See, with my hand I can turn the water to Canada or to America! S... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I knew my education never could be complete, said that lady as she shook hands,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And why didn't you come by Niagara?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My dear, perhaps your uncle could tell you that I saw enough of Niagara whe... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I always think, said Mrs. Farquhar,"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hate slang, she said, when he had painted the situation black enough to suit Mrs. Bartlett Glow even,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mrs. Farquhar's voice trembled and her eyes flashed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I tell you, my friend, life is not... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come, this is enough of tragedy for one day; let us go on the Island Wanderer, with the other excursionists, among the isles of the blest."
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Too many islands too much alike, at length exclaimed Mrs. Farquhar,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Isles of Greece, the Isles of Greece,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O Thousand Isles! O Thousand Isles!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "O ... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I suppose there is fishing here in the season?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Could you take us where we would be likely to get any muskallonge?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Likely? asked the man."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do you... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Kubla Khan."
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It could not have been, she thought,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, there is a fast enough life at some of the hotels in the summer,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very likely. Still, if I were recruiting for schoolmarms, I should come here. I like ... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "See here, old fellow, I'm off to the Profile House. Can you get ready?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Get ready? Why, you can't go anywhere tonight."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes I can. The proprietor says he will send us across to Redwood to catch... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, that's all right, said the artist, after a pause."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I suppose the world might go on if you spend another night in this hotel. But if you must go, I'll bring on the women and the baggage when navigation opens in the morning."
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At the end of the season, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I expect to meet friends here."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So did I; but they have gone, or some of them have."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But mine are coming tomorrow.... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I. B.,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ""
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wonder, said Mrs. Farquhar, as they stumbled along over the slippery stones,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Just what we came for, answered Forbes,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Among the Clouds, and a natural wild-flower stuck on the corner, and the... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You can see nothing but excursionists; whichever way you look, you see their backs."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ohs! and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ahs!"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, there she is, cried Mrs. Farquhar;"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have come, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I--I hoped you would come."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "told the story of Abraham Lincoln's sole response to Lord Lyons, the bachelor minister of her majesty, when he came officially to announce the... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whose trout is that?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It belongs to both of us,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But who caught it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Both of us, said Marion, stepping out of the boat;"
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Studies of Irving,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Work of Washington Irving"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So sepulchred in such pomp dost lie, That kings, for such a tomb, would wish to die,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and attribute to the rudeness of his"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "genius the"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Henry Esmond and the biographer of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Rab and His Friends."
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "the only amusing thing in the world, that brought to literary art the test of utility, and disparaged what is called the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Knickerbocker School (assuming Irving to be the head of it) as wanting in purpose and virility, a merely romantic d... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rhapsodist; but it was not until 1797 that his career as an author began, by the publication of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Alcuin: a Dialogue on the Rights of Women. This and the romances which followed it show the powerful influence upon him of the school of fic... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Monthly Magazine and American Review, begun in New York in the spring of 1798, and ending in the autumn of 1800; and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Literary Magazine and American Register, which was established in Philadelphia in 1803--It was for this periodi... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "in New England, of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "there and elsewhere, of communistic experiments, of reform notions about marriage, about woman's dress, about diet; through the open door of abolitionism women appeared upon its platform, demanding a various emancipat... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Washington's work is ended, said the mother,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When the first President was again in New York, the first seat of the new government, a Scotch maid-servant of the family, catching the popular enthusiasm, one day followed the hero into a sh... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pilgrim's Progress. This cold and severe discipline at home would have been intolerable but for the more lovingly demonstrative and impulsive character of the mother, whose gentle nature and fine intellect won the tender veneration of her children. Of the father they stood in aw... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Robinson Crusoe and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sindbad; at ten he was inspired by a translation of"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Orlando Furioso;"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Morning Chronicle, a newspaper then recently established by his brother Peter. The attention that these audacious satires of the theater, the actors, and their audience attracted is evidence of the literary poverty of the period. The letters are open imitations of the"
},
{
... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's a chap who will go overboard before we get across;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah! le pauvre garcon! said one to another;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And what will they do with him? asked a young... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God knows my mind never suffered so much as on this journey, he writes,"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mother, who was Washington?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, my dear, don't you know? was the astonished reply."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He wrote the 'Sketch-Book.' It was at the house of Baron von Humboldt, the Prussian minister, that Irving f... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am a young man and in Paris."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Her looks, he says,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Some years later, after the publication of the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sketch-Book, in a London assembly Irving was prese... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "SALMAGUNDI"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Make it stronger, Jo, was the reply;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "]--Society more than ever attracted him and devoured his time. He willingly accepted the office o... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That they were less abandoned than they pretended to be the sequel of their lives shows among Irving's associates at this time who attained honorable consideration were John and Gouverneur Kemble, Henry Brevoort, Henry Ogden, James K. Paulding, and Peter Irving. The saving influ... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sketch-Book and the pilgrim in Spain. His biographer, Mr. Pierre M. Irving, has given no description of his appearance; but a relative, who saw much of our author in his latter years, writes to me:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He had dark gray eyes; a handsome stra... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Salmagundi, a semimonthly periodical, in small duodecimo sheets, which ran with tolerable regularity through twenty numbers, and stopped in full tide of success, with the whimsical indifference to the public which had characterized its every issue. Its declared purpose was"
},... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Literary Picture Gallery and Admonitory Epistles to the Visitors of Ballston-Spa, by Simeon Senex, Esquire."
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Picture Gallery, under the thin disguise of initials, are the portraits of well-known belles of New York whose charms of person and graces of mind would make the present reader regret his tardy advent into this world, did not the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Admoni... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Salmagundi, did not immediately devote himself to literature, nor seem to regard his achievements in it as anything more than aids to social distinction. He was then, as always, greatly influenced by his surroundings. These were unfavorable to literary pursuits. Politics was the... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, my friend, I have been in such holes and corners; such filthy nooks and filthy corners; sweep offices and oyster cellars! I have sworn brother to a leash of drawers, and can drink with any tinker in his own language during my life,--faugh! I shall not be able to bear the sme... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Salmagundi, Irving, in connection with his brother Peter, projected the work that was to make him famous. At first nothing more was intended than a satire upon the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Picture of New York, by Dr. Samuel Mitchell, just then published. It was... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Matilda Hoffman;"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We saw each other every day, and I became excessively attached to her. Her shyness wore off by degrees. The more I saw of her the more I had reason to admire her. Her mind seemed to unfold leaf by leaf, and every time to discover new sweetness. Nobody knew her so well as I, for ... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Months elapsed before my mind would resume any tone; but the despondency I had suffered for a long time in the course of this attachment, and the anguish that attended its catastrophe, seemed to give a turn to my whole character, and throw some clouds into my disposition, which ... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was fortunate, perhaps, that this affection was returned by the warmest friendship only, since it was destined that the accomplishment of his wishes was impossible, for many obstacles which lay in his way; and it is with pleasure I can truly say that in time he schooled himse... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You wonder why I am not married. I have shown you why I was not long since. When I had sufficiently recovered from that loss, I became involved in ruin. It was not for a man broken down in the world, to drag down any woman to his paltry circumstances. I was too proud to tolerate... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is what we must all come to at last. I see you are hankering after it, and I confess I have done so for a long time past. We are, however, past that period [Irving was thirty-two] when a man marries suddenly and inconsiderately. We may be longer making a choice, and consultin... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I emerged from dirt and darkness into the blazing splendor of Mrs. Madison's drawing-room. Here I was most graciously received; found a crowded collection of great and little men, of ugly old women and beautiful young ones, and in ten minutes was hand and glove with half the peo... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your familiar pictures of home made me extremely desirous again to be there . . . . I shall once more return to sober life, satisfied with having secured three months of sunshine in this valley of shadows and darkness. In this space of time I have seen considerable of the world,... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I do want most deplorably to apply my mind to something that will arouse and animate it; for at present it is very indolent and relaxed, and I find it very difficult to shake off the lethargy that enthralls it. This makes me restless and dissatisfied with myself, and I am convin... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The war colored all social life and conversation."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This war [the letter is to Brevoort, who is in Europe] has completely changed the face of things here. You would scarcely recognize our old peaceful city. Nothing is talked of but armies... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think, he says, writing of the exile of St. Helena,"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I repeated the conversation to Scott some time afterward, and it drew forth a characteristic comment. 'Pooh!' said he, good humoredly; 'how can Campbell mistake the matter so much? Poetry goes by quality, not by bulk. My poems are mere Cairngorms, wrought up, perhaps, with a cun... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "dated on board the Flambeau, off Algiers. In it Nicholson says that"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Upon which Irving remarks:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As this is all that Jack's brevity will allow him to say on the subject, I should be at a loss t... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The poor man has his hands full, with such a bevy of beautiful women under his charge, and all doubtless bent on pleasure and admiration. He hears, however, nothing further of her, except the newspapers mention her being at Cheltenham."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A thoroughbred, thoroughly appointed soldier is nothing to a Kentucky rifleman, etc., etc. In contrast to this sort of American was Charles King, who was then abroad:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Charles is exactly what an American should be abroad: frank, manly, a... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He writes:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She is, to my eyes, the most soul-subduing actress I ever saw; I do not mean from her personal charms, which are great, but from the truth, force, and pathos of her acting. I have never been so completely melted, moved, and o... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At the hotel where we put up [he writes] we had a most singular and whimsical assemblage of beings. I don't know whether you were ever at an English watering-place, but if you have not been, you have missed the best opportunity of studying English oddities, both moral and physic... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your account [he writes of the brevity of the old lady's nether garments] distresses me . . . . I cannot help observing that this fashion of short skirts must have been invented by the French ladies as a complete trick upon John Bull's 'woman-folk.' It was introduced just at the... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In America [he writes to Brevoort] you have financial difficulties, the embarrassments of trade, the distress of merchants, but here you have what is far worse, the distress of the poor--not merely mental sufferings, but the absolute miseries of nature: hunger, nakedness, wretch... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sketch-Book was launched, and while Irving was casting about for the means of livelihood, Walter Scott urged him to take the editorship of an anti-Jacobin periodical in Edinburgh. This he declined because he had no taste for politics, and because he was averse to stated, routine... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sketch-Book was published in America in May, 1819. Irving was then thirty-six years old. The series was not completed till September, 1820. The first installment was carried mainly by two papers,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Wife and"
},
{
"from": "huma... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sketch-Book created a sensation in America, and the echo of it was not long in reaching England. The general chorus of approval and the rapid sale surprised Irving, and sent his spirits up, but success had the effect on him that it always has on a fine nature. He writes to Lesli... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope you will not attribute all this sensibility to the kind reception I have met to an author's vanity. I am sure it proceeds from very different sources. Vanity could not bring the tears into my eyes as they have been brought by the kindness of my countrymen. I have felt cas... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sketch-Book was making a great fame for him in England. Jeffrey, in the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Edinburgh Review, paid it a most flattering tribute, and even the savage"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Quarterly praised it. A rumor attributed it to... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bracebridge Hall, a volume that was well received, but did not add much to his reputation, though it contained"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dolph Heyliger, one of his most characteristic Dutch stories, and the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stout Gent... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He was thoroughly a gentleman, not merely in external manners and look, but to the innermost fibres and core of his heart; sweet-tempered, gentle, fastidious, sensitive, and gifted with the warmest affections; the most delightful and invariably interesting companion; gay and ful... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "On these occasions strict orders were given that no visitor should be admitted till the last word had been read, and the whole praised or criticised, as the case may be. Of criticism, however, we were very spare, as a slight word would put him out of conceit of a whole work. One... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We have had much bustle in Paris of late, between the death of one king and the succession of another. I have become a little callous to public sights, but have, notwithstanding, been to see the funeral of the late king, and the entrance into Paris of the present one. Charles X.... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Alhambra,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Conquest of Granada,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Legends of the Conquest of Spain, and I may add the popular loss if we had not"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Lives of Columbus and ... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Voyages of Columbus."
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Last evening, at your house, we had one of the most lovely tableaux I ever beheld. It was the conception of Murillo, represented by Madame A----. Mademoiselle Antoinette arranged the tableau with her usual good taste, and the effect was enchanting. It was more like a vision of s... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As I live in the neighborhood of the library of the Jesuits' College of St. Isidoro, I pass most of my mornings there. You cannot think what a delight I feel in passing through its galleries, filled with old parchment-bound books. It is a perfect wilderness of curiosity to me. W... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The more I contemplate these places, the more my admiration is awakened for the elegant habits and delicate taste of the Moorish monarchs. The delicately ornamented walls; the aromatic groves, mingling with the freshness and the enlivening sounds of fountains and rivers of water... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have just sent to my brother an abridgment of 'Columbus' to be published immediately, as I find some paltry fellow is pirating an abridgment. Thus every line of life has its depredation. 'There be land rats and water rats, land pirates and water pirates,--I mean thieves,' as o... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Life of Washington,"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "However, he goes on to say in a vague way,"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Geoffrey Crayon's Sceptre ); spent some time at Newstead Abbey; and had the sorrowful pleasure in London of seeing Scott once more, and for the last time. The great novelist, in the sad eclipse of his powers, was staying in the city, on his way to Italy, and Mr. Lockhart asked I... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dutch Herodotus, Diedrich Knickerbocker,"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A Tour on the Prairies,"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Roost was a little farm on the bank of the river at Tarrytown, close to his old Sleepy Hollow haunt, one of the loveliest, if not the most picturesque, situations on the Hudson. At first he intended nothing more than a summer retreat, inexpensive and simply furnished. But his ex... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The last time I saw Eugenie Montijo she was one of the reigning belles of Madrid; and she and her giddy circle had swept away my charming young friend, the beautiful and accomplished--------, into their career of fashionable dissipation. Now Eugenie is upon a throne, and a volun... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As far as I know my own mind, I am thoroughly a republican, and attached, from complete conviction, to the institutions of my country; but I am a republican without gall, and have no bitterness in my creed. I have no relish for Puritans, either in religion or politics, who are f... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A Tour on the Prairies,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Recollections of Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Legends of the Conquest of Spain,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Astoria (the heavy part of the work of... |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was, he wrote,"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and yet when the news first reached him, he paced up and down his room, excited and astonished, revolving in his mind the separation from home and friends, and was heard murmuring, half to himself and half to his nephew:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is hard,--ve... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "After passing through various chambers of the palace, now silent and sombre, but which I had traversed in former days, on grand court occasions in the time of Ferdinand VII, when they were glittering with all the splendor of a court, we paused in a great saloon, with high-vaulte... |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Time dispels charms and illusions. You remember how much I was struck with a beautiful young woman (I will not mention names) who appeared in a tableau as Murillo's Virgin of the Assumption? She was young, recently married, fresh and unhackneyed in society, and my imagination de... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was interrupted in my letter writing, by an observation of the lady whom I was describing. She had caught my eye occasionally, as it glanced from my letter toward her. 'Really, Senor,' said she, at length, with a smile, I one would think you were a painter taking my likeness.'... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Columbus and his"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Washington,"
}
] |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Diedrich Knickerbocker,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ichabod Crane,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rip Van Winkle."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "was humor; and allied to this was sentiment. These qualities modified and restrained each oth... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Communipaw, in short, is one of the numerous little villages in the vicinity of this most beautiful of cities, which are so many strongholds and fastnesses, whither the primitive manners of our Dutch forefathers have retreated, and where they are cherished with devout and scrupu... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It does not appear that the valiant Argal molested the settlement of Communipaw; on the contrary, I am told that when his vessel first hove in sight, the worthy burghers were seized with such a panic, that they fell to smoking their pipes with astonishing vehemence; insomuch tha... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This summary process was as effectual in those simple days as was the seal-ring of the great Haroun Alraschid among the true believers. The two parties being confronted before him, each produced a book of accounts, written in a language and character that would have puzzled any ... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "First of all came the Van Bummels, who inhabit the pleasant borders of the Bronx: these were short fat men, wearing exceeding large trunk-breeches, and were renowned for feats of the trencher. They were the first inventors of suppawn, or mush and milk.--Close in their rear march... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Certain it is, not an old woman in New Amsterdam but considered Peter Stuyvesant as a tower of strength, and rested satisfied that the public welfare was secure so long as he was in the city. It is not surprising, then, that they looked upon his departure as a sore affliction. W... |
3136 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Brimful of wrath and cabbage,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "His fall was the signal of defeat and victory: the Swedes gave way, the Dutch pressed forward; the former took to their heels, the latter hotly pursued. Some entered with them, pell-mell, through the sally-port; others stormed the bastion, and others scrambled over the curtain. ... |
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