The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Wr - Washington Irving [256]
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See endnote 9 to The Sketch-Book.
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Allusion to Shakespeare’s King Lear (act 3, scene 4).
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German mercenary soldier who fought on the side of the British in the American Revolution.
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Long, thin, and hooked, like the bills of certain shorebirds known as snipe.
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Embodiment.
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Slender, flexible twig.
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Studying.
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See the Bible, Proverbs 13:24: “He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes” (King James Version).
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This phrase comes from the illustration of the letter L in the New England Primer (c.1683), a spelling book.
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Puritan clergyman Cotton Mather (1663-1728), the son of Increase Mather (see footnote on p. 152), participated in the Salem witch trials and wrote a number of works concerning witchcraft, including Memorable Providences, Relating to Witchcrafts and Possessions (1689) and The Wonders of the Invisible World (1693).
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The whip-poor-will is a bird which is only heard at night. It receives its name from its note, which is thought to resemble those words [Irving’s note].
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From “L’ Allegro” ( 1631 ), by English poet John Milton (line 140).
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Boisterous, merrymaking.
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Strong, flexible climbing shrub used to make walking sticks.
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Greek hero of the Iliad who fought with Agamemnon over who would claim the captured girl Briseis.
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Ruler used for punishing children.
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Messenger of the gods in Roman mythology, traditionally represented as wearing a hat with wings.
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Pancakes.
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An olykoek is a traditional Dutch fried pastry.
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Christian martyr (died c.303); Saint Vitus’s dance was a name for chorea, a neurological disease that causes involuntary muscular convulsions.
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The American Revolution.
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British officer (1751-1780) hanged as a spy during the American Revolution.
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Court of small claims.
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Closing the second volume of the London edition [Irving’s note].
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Long attributed to Chaucer, this poem is in fact a translation by Sir Richard Ros of a poem by the fifteenth-century French writer Alain Chartier.
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Praises.
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From The Jovial Crew; or, The Merry Beggars (1641), by English dramatist Richard Brome.
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See the Bible, Revelations 18:23.
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Fortified inner tower, or dungeon.
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Mirror for Magistrates [Irving’s note]. See footnote on p. 113.
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From Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (act 1, scene 1).
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Card showing samples of their wares.
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Overcoat.
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A number of periodicals were published under the title Ladies Magazine; Irving probably had in mind the one edited by Oliver Goldsmith from 1759 to 1763.
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Middle English for “named.”
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Melancholy.
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The London Times and the Morning Chronicle were the leading British newspapers in early-nineteenth-century England.
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English political party that championed reform, in particular the limiting of royal authority.
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Henry Hunt (1773-1835), English radical politician; with English journalist William Cobbett (1763-1835), he formed the Radical Reform Association, which advocated for such labor reform laws as a ten-hour day and an end to child labor.
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Offense.
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So called after English boxer James Belcher (1781-1811), who often wore a blue handkerchief with white spots. (See William Hazlitt’s essay “The Fight”)
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Cocktail of hot water, wine, and lemon juice, sweetened and spiced.
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Incognito.
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From Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale (act 2, scene 1).
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Or Tipu Sahib; sultan of Mysore (in southern India), who, aided by the French, fought against British colonization of India; he was defeated by General Wellesley at the city of Seringapatam in 1799.
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Antiquitates vulgares (1725), by English historian Henry Bourne; this quotation has not been located.
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Manhattan, a borough of New York City.
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Acacias [Irving’s note].
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In Greek mythology, the Hesperides were nymphs who guarded a garden with a tree that bore golden apples.
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See footnote