 | 1819 - 610 pages
...foundations of the earth, and those wild phantasms that ™e!i the tales of fishermen and sailors. " Sometimes a distant sail, gliding along the edge of...ocean, would be another theme of idle speculation. How interest'ng this fragment of a world, hastening to rejoin the great mass of existence. What a glorious... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1822 - 424 pages
...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...triumphed over wind and wave ; has brought the ends of the world into communion ; has established an interchange of blessings, pouring into the sterile regions... | |
 | John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...foundations of the earth ; and those wild phantasms that swell the tales of fishermen and sailors. Sometimes a distant sail gliding along the edge of...wind and wave : has brought the ends of the earth in communion , has established an interchange of blessings, pouring into the steril regions of the... | |
 | William Oxberry - English literature - 1824 - 384 pages
...very foundations of the earth; and those wild phantasms that swell the tales of fishermen and sailors. Sometimes a distant sail gliding along the edge of...over wind and wave; has brought the ends of the earth in communion; has established an interchange of blessings, pouring into the steril regions of the north... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
...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...triumphed over wind and wave; has brought the ends of the world into communion ; has established an interchange of blessings, pouring into the sterile regions... | |
 | English literature - 1819 - 606 pages
...foundations of the earth, and those wild phantasms tliat (well the tales of fishermen and sailors. " Sometimes a distant sail, gliding along the edge of the ocean, would be another tbeme of idle speculation. How interesting tlii» fragment of a world, hastening to vot. v. rejoin... | |
 | Moses Severance - Readers - 1832 - 312 pages
...foundations of the earth ; and those wild phantasms* that swell the tales of fishermen and sailors, 4. Sometimes a distant sail, gliding along the edge of...over wind and wave; has brought the ends of the earth in communion ; has established an interchange of blessings, pouring into the sterile regions of the... | |
 | John J. Harrod - Readers - 1832 - 338 pages
...that swell the tales of fishermen and sailors. 6. Sometimes a distant sail gliding along the ledge of the ocean would be another theme of idle speculation....world hastening to rejoin the great mass of existence! 7. What a glorious monument of human invention, that has thus triumphed over wind and wave; has brought... | |
 | Moses Severance - American literature - 1833 - 304 pages
...foundations of the earth ; and those •wild phantasms6 that, swell the tales of fishermen and sailors. 4. Sometimes a distant .sail, gliding along the edge...another theme' of idle speculation. How interesting thte /mgniCTH of a world, hastening to rejoin the great mass of existence ! What a glorious monument... | |
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1834 - 320 pages
...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...triumphed over wind and wave; has brought the ends of the world into communion; has established an interchange of blessings, pouring into the sterile regions... | |
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Sometimes a distant sail, gliding along the edge of the ocean, would be another theme of idle speculation. How interesting this fragment of a world, hastening to rejoin the great mass of existence! 
