The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Wr - Washington Irving [258]
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Old female cat.
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Former.
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That is, what is got over the devil’s back is spent under his belly (squandered).
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Social clubs.
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Sudden fit of emotion; a stroke.
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That is, the ablest teller of tall tales.
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From Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (act 1, scene 5).
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See the Bible, Genesis 23:4 (King James Version); compare also with the conclusion of Irving’s sketch “The Voyage” (p. 57).
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Allusion to Shakespeare’s Othello, the Moor of Venice (act 5, scene 2).
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From an article (said to be by Robert Southey, Esq.) published in the Quarterly Review. It is to be lamented that that publication should so often forget the generous text here given [Irving’s note]. Robert Southey (1774-1843) was an English poet and man of letters.
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I love (German).
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Moral fable.
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Greek physician (c.460-c.377 B.C.) known as the father of medicine.
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Pill.
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From the 1624 play by English dramatist John Fletcher (act 2, scene 1).
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The Great Unknown” is a nickname of Scottish author Sir Walter Scott. Scott published Waverley (1814), Peveril of the Peak (1822), and all of his other novels anonymously until 1827, generating much public speculation as to their authorship; his identity was an open secret by the time Irving published Tales of a Traveller (1824).
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A great hunter; see the Bible, Genesis 10:8-9.
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Liquor, usually a spiced ale or wine.
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That is, to her limits.
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Descendants of King Milesius, legendary Celtic invader of Ireland.
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Emmanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772), Swedish scientist, anatomist, and mystic, whose theory of correspondences influenced the transcendentalist movement in America.
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The French Revolution, which began in 1789.
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La Sorbonne, the University of Paris.
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Compare with the conclusion of Irving’s sketch “The Voyage” (p. 57).
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Canopy over a four-poster bed.
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Mythical reptile whose gaze kills its victims.
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Broom.
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In confusion.
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Venice is the site of an annual carnival in which participants dress in masquerade.
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Italian painter and poet (1615-1673), whose work was admired by members of the picturesque school (see endnote 4 to The Sketch-Book).
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Raphael (1483-1520), Titian (c.1485-1576), and Correggio (1490?-1534) were painters of the Italian High Renaissance.
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Jesus is dead (Latin).
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Proverbial for “sudden reversal.”
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Breakwater piers.
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Person who resolves problems of conscience with often specious reasoning.
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See the Bible, Luke 15:11-32.
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Pietro Metastasio (1698-1782), Italian poet and librettist.
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See the Bible, Genesis 4:3-17.
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From The Jew of Malta (c.1589), by English dramatist Christopher Marlowe (act 2, scene 1).
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Drunkard.
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See p. 403.
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In book 12 of Homer’s Odyssey, the names given to a sea monster and a whirlpool that guard either side of a hazardous strait through which Odysseus must steer his ship.
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Or Strait of Messina; channel dividing Sicily and Italy.
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For a very interesting and authentic account of the devil and his stepping-stones, see the valuable Memoir read before the New York Historical Society, since the death of Mr. Knickerbocker, by his friend, an eminent jurist of the place [Irving’s note]. Mr. Knickerbocker’s “friend” is a reference to Egbert Benson, who presented his memoir to the New York Historical Society in 1816; see Collections of the New York Historical Society, second series (1848), vol. 2, pp. 28-148.
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See p. 447.
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That is, Throg’s Neck, a cape on Long Island Sound in Bronx County, New York.
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King Charles II of Great Britain and Ireland seized the Dutch colony of New Netherland in 1664; the colony was renamed New York when Charles granted it to his brother James, duke of York.
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William “Captain” Kidd (c.1645-1701), Scottish privateer turned pirate.
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Pirate.
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That is, a storm-petrel, a seabird that lives its life far out at sea.
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Or Kedah, a Malaysian state.
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Richard Coote, earl of Bellamont, colonial governor of New York, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire (1695-1701).
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Dive.