The Sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Esq, Volume 1John Murray, 1834 - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) |
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... thought I , must therefore be as superior to a great man of America , as a peak of the Alps to a highland of the Hudson ; and in this idea I was confirmed by observing the comparative import- ance and swelling magnitude of many English ...
... thought I , must therefore be as superior to a great man of America , as a peak of the Alps to a highland of the Hudson ; and in this idea I was confirmed by observing the comparative import- ance and swelling magnitude of many English ...
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... thought I , is the crew ? Their struggle has long been over they have down amidst the roar - -- gone of the tempest their bones lie whitening among the caverns of the deep . Silence , oblivion , like the waves , have closed over them ...
... thought I , is the crew ? Their struggle has long been over they have down amidst the roar - -- gone of the tempest their bones lie whitening among the caverns of the deep . Silence , oblivion , like the waves , have closed over them ...
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... thought had been busy there , yet his eye still beamed with the fire of a poetic soul . There was something in his whole appearance that indicated a being of a different order from the bustling race around him . I enquired his name ...
... thought had been busy there , yet his eye still beamed with the fire of a poetic soul . There was something in his whole appearance that indicated a being of a different order from the bustling race around him . I enquired his name ...
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... thought , nor elysium of fancy ; but has gone forth into the highways and thoroughfares of life ; he has planted bowers by the way side , for the refreshment of the pilgrim and the sojourner , and has opened pure fountains , where the ...
... thought , nor elysium of fancy ; but has gone forth into the highways and thoroughfares of life ; he has planted bowers by the way side , for the refreshment of the pilgrim and the sojourner , and has opened pure fountains , where the ...
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... thoughts ; which the best of men are apt some- times to neglect , and to roam abroad in search of less worthy associates . He is independent of the world around him . He lives with antiquity and with posterity ; with antiquity , in the ...
... thoughts ; which the best of men are apt some- times to neglect , and to roam abroad in search of less worthy associates . He is independent of the world around him . He lives with antiquity and with posterity ; with antiquity , in the ...
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