The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Wr - Washington Irving [253]
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That is, his hobbyhorse.
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Waterloo Medals, issued to soldiers who had participated in various battles of the Napoleonic Wars, commemorated Napoleon’s final defeat at the Battle of Waterloo (June 18, 1815) by the Allies under English and Prussian generals Wellington and Blücher. Queen Anne farthings were issued only in 1714, during the last year of Queen Anne’s reign in Great Britain and Ireland, and were thought to be rare.
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The last Dutch director-general of New Netherland (1646-1664); unpopular for his harsh leadership, he was forced to surrender the colony to Great Britain in 1664, when it was subsequently renamed New York.
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Swedish settlement on the Delaware River; it was captured by the Dutch under Stuyvesant in 1655.
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That is, one given behind the curtains, out of sight of neighbors.
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Argumentative and nagging.
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Loose-fitting breeches.
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British king (1760-1820) against whom the colonists rebelled in the American Revolution.
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Quarrelsome, shrewish woman.
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Knapsack.
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Small sailing ship.
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Clergyman.
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The Dutch established the settlement of New Amsterdam in 1625; its history is the subject of Irving’s A History of New York.
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Sweet-tasting gin produced by the Dutch.
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Revelers.
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Concerning marriage.
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See footnote on p. 40.
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The Battle of Bunker Hill (June 17, 1775) was one of the earliest of the American Revolution.
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Like the confusion of tongues said to have followed the fall of the Tower of Babel; see the Bible, Genesis 11.
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The two major political parties of the early Republic.
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Derogatory term for an American who advocated allegiance to Great Britain during the American Revolution.
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Or Anthony’s Nose; headland on the Hudson River near Peekskill.
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Adriaen Van Der Donck ( 1620-1655?), Dutch lawyer and a colonist to America, whose Description of the New Netherlands was used as a promotional tract to encourage emigration to the colony.
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Duplicate.
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Quotation from Areopagitica (1644), a prose work by English poet John Milton arguing for freedom of the press.
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That is, democracy.
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Legendary territory sought by European explorers of the Americas, said to be rich in gold and precious stones.
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That is, hereditary class distinctions.
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Not genuine; spurious.
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Compare this with Irving’s characterization of America as a “logocracy” in Salmagundi, pp. 27 and 36.
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Slander.
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Common blood.
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Quotation from The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), by English clergyman Robert Burton (from the author’s preface, “Democritus Junior to the Reader”)
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Walks.
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Quotation from The Faerie Queene (1589-1596), by English poet Edmund Spenser (book 2, canto 2, stanza 32).
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See the Bible, Isaiah 28:10 (King James Version).
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Allusion to Shakespeare’s Macbeth (act 4, scene 1).
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Street in London known for its old-clothes shops.
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Popular verse miscellany published in 1576.
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Also spelled Sydney; English Elizabethan poet and courtier (1554-1586), whose works include the sonnet cycle Astrophel and Stella and the unfinished prose romance Arcadia.
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That is, rustic or pastoral.
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See Shakespeare’s The Life of Henry the Fifth (act 2, scene 1).
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English dramatists Francis Beaumont (1584?-1616) and John Fletcher (1579-1625) collaborated on a number of plays, including The Maides Tragedy, Phylaster, and A King and No King.
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In Roman mythology, Castor and Pollux were the twin sons of Jupiter and Leyda (in Greek myth, Zeus and Leda).
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English playwright and poet (1572-1637), perhaps the best known of Shakespeare’s contemporaries.
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Figure of mischief and frivolity in the pantomime tradition, often dressed in parti-colored clothes.
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Greek warrior in Homer’s Iliad who was killed by Hector at Troy, sparking Achilles’ outrage and grief (see books 16-18).
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See Shakespeare’s The First Part of Henry the Fourth (act 3, scene 2).
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See Shakespeare’s King Lear (act 3, scene 4).
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Scottish poet William Drummond (1585-1649); Irving inaccurately quotes from a sonnet in his Poems (1616).