 This rambling propensity strengthened with my years. Books of voyages and travels became my passion, and in devouring their contents, I neglected the regular exercises of the school. How wistfully would I wander about the...  Littell's Living Age - Page 4531863Full view - About this book
 | H. M. Melford - 1841 - 466 lehte
...ranges the forest , the shepherd ranges the mountains. How wistfully would I wander about the pier heads in fine weather, and watch the parting ships bound to distant climes ! (fT. Irving's S. Б.) Her poor daughter, she said, cryiog, was wandering somewhere aient the road.... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1843 - 458 lehte
...contents,.! neglected the regular exercises of the school. How wistfully would I wander about the pier heads in fine weather, and watch the parting ships bound to distant climes; with 2what longing eyes would I gaze after their lessening M/ C/'. c • sails, and waft myself in imagination... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1846 - 356 lehte
...I neglected the regular exercises of the school. How wistfully would I wander about the pier heads in fine weather, and watch the parting ships bound to distant climes I with what longing eyes would I gaze after their lessening sails, and waft myself in imagination to... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1848 - 478 lehte
...wander about the pier-heads in fine weather, and watch the parting ships, bound to distant climes—with what longing eyes would I gaze after their lessening...waft myself in imagination to the ends of the earth ! Further reading and thinking, though they brought this vague inclination into more reasonable bounds,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1849 - 544 lehte
...wander about the pier-heads in fine weather, and watch the parting ships, bound to distant climes—with what longing eyes would I gaze after their lessening...waft myself in imagination to the ends of the earth ! Further reading and thinking, though they brought this vague inclination into more reasonable bounds,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1853 - 524 lehte
...I neglected the regular exercises of the school. How wistfully would I wander about the pier-heads in fine weather, and watch the parting ships, bound...waft myself in imagination to the ends of the earth ! Further reading and thinking, though they brought this vague inclination into more reasonable bounds,... | |
 | Pierre Munroe Irving - 1862 - 408 lehte
...wistfully," says he, in the introduction to the Sketch Book, '-would I wander about the pier-heads in fine weather, and watch the parting ships bound...waft myself in imagination to the ends of the earth I" So strong did this desire become, that at the age of fourteen it had nearly ripened into a purpose... | |
 | Anonymous - 1863 - 602 lehte
...religious faith. The more kindly and scrupulously we obey its dictates, the happier we shall be.' His whole life, adds his nephew, was an exemplification of this...home, and engage as a sailor. The idea of living on Bait pork, which was his abhorrence, was, however, a great drawback to his resolution ; but with the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1863 - 736 lehte
...religious faith. The more kindly and scrupulously we obey its dictates, the happier we shall be.' His whole life, adds his nephew, was an exemplification of this...purpose to elope from home, and engage as a sailor. The idoa of living on salt pork, which was his abhorrence, was, however, a great drawback to his resolution... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray, George Walter Prothero - 1863 - 626 lehte
...nephew, was an exemplification of this doctrine. His father died in 1807, at the age of soventy-six ; his mother in 1817, after her son had emigrated to...eyes would I gaze after their lessening sails, and wait myself in imagination to the ends of the earth ! ' At the age of fourteen, says his biographer,... | |
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