The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, EsqB. Tauchnitz, 1843 - 361 pages |
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Washington Irving. THE AUTHOR'S ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF . . " I am of this mind with Homer , that as the snaile that crept out of her shel was turned eftsoons into a toad , and thereby was forced to make a stoole to sit on ; so the traveller ...
Washington Irving. THE AUTHOR'S ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF . . " I am of this mind with Homer , that as the snaile that crept out of her shel was turned eftsoons into a toad , and thereby was forced to make a stoole to sit on ; so the traveller ...
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... mind pe- culiarly fitted to receive new and vivid impressions . The vast space of waters that separates the hemispheres is like a blank page in existence . There is no gradual transition by which , as in Europe , the features and ...
... mind pe- culiarly fitted to receive new and vivid impressions . The vast space of waters that separates the hemispheres is like a blank page in existence . There is no gradual transition by which , as in Europe , the features and ...
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... mind from worldly themes . I delighted to loll over the quarter railing , or climb to the main - top , of a calm day , and muse for hours together on the tranquil bosom of a summer's sea ; to gaze upon the piles of golden clouds just ...
... mind from worldly themes . I delighted to loll over the quarter railing , or climb to the main - top , of a calm day , and muse for hours together on the tranquil bosom of a summer's sea ; to gaze upon the piles of golden clouds just ...
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... mind's brave ardour in heroic aims , Such as may raise us o'er the groveling herd , And make us shine for ever that ... minds I had communed even in the solitudes of America . Accustomed , as we are in my country , to ROSCOE . 11 Roscoe.
... mind's brave ardour in heroic aims , Such as may raise us o'er the groveling herd , And make us shine for ever that ... minds I had communed even in the solitudes of America . Accustomed , as we are in my country , to ROSCOE . 11 Roscoe.
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... minds in the dusty paths of life . They pass before our imaginations like superior beings radi- ant with the emanations of their own genius , and surrounded by a halo of literary glory . To find , therefore , the elegant historian of ...
... minds in the dusty paths of life . They pass before our imaginations like superior beings radi- ant with the emanations of their own genius , and surrounded by a halo of literary glory . To find , therefore , the elegant historian of ...
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