The Sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Esq, Volume 1John Murray, 1834 - 316 pages |
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... earth ! Farther reading and thinking , though they brought this vague inclination into more reason- able bounds , only served to make it more decided . I visited various parts of my own country : and had I been merely influenced by a ...
... earth ! Farther reading and thinking , though they brought this vague inclination into more reason- able bounds , only served to make it more decided . I visited various parts of my own country : and had I been merely influenced by a ...
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... the great men of the earth . We have , it is true , our great men in America ; not a city but has an ample share of them . I have mingled among them in my time , and been almost withered by B 2 ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF . 3.
... the great men of the earth . We have , it is true , our great men in America ; not a city but has an ample share of them . I have mingled among them in my time , and been almost withered by B 2 ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF . 3.
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... would conjure up all that I had heard or read of the watery world beneath me ; of the finny herds that roam its fathomless valleys ; of the shapeless monsters that lurk among the very foundations of the earth THE VOYAGE . 9.
... would conjure up all that I had heard or read of the watery world beneath me ; of the finny herds that roam its fathomless valleys ; of the shapeless monsters that lurk among the very foundations of the earth THE VOYAGE . 9.
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Washington Irving. monsters that lurk among the very foundations of the earth ; and of those wild phantasms that swell the tales of fishermen and sailors . Sometimes a distant sail , gliding along the edge of the ocean , would be another ...
Washington Irving. monsters that lurk among the very foundations of the earth ; and of those wild phantasms that swell the tales of fishermen and sailors . Sometimes a distant sail , gliding along the edge of the ocean , would be another ...
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... earth ; with whose minds I had communed even in the solitudes of America . Accustomed , as we are in my country , to know European writers only by their works , we cannot conceive of them , as of other men , engrossed by trivial or ...
... earth ; with whose minds I had communed even in the solitudes of America . Accustomed , as we are in my country , to know European writers only by their works , we cannot conceive of them , as of other men , engrossed by trivial or ...
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