 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
 | Washington Irving - 1911 - 470 lehte
...neglected the regular exercises of the school. How wistfully would I wander 5 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 10 this vague inclination into more reasonable... | |
 | Henry Pendexter Emerson, Ida Catherine Bender - 1913 - 408 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 only served to make this vague inclination more decided. I visited various... | |
 | Hendrik Poutsma - 1916 - 758 lehte
...who, from the world's beginning, had been made for him. HAL. SUTCL., Pam the Fiddler, Ch. II, 32. ii. With what longing eyes would I gaze after their lessening...waft myself in imagination to the ends of the earth] WASH. IRV., Sketch-Bk. Page 97, § 44. A construction analogous to that illustrated in Ch. XXXIII,... | |
 | Francis Patrick Donnelly - 1920 - 238 lehte
...contents I neglected the regular exercises of the school. How wistfully would I wander about the pierheads 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,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1922 - 136 lehte
..."How wistfully," he wrote afterwards of this period of his life, "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." These restless cravings were partially satisfied by two journeys — one up the Hudson to Albany; the... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1922 - 396 lehte
...school. How wistfully would I wander about the pier-heads in fine weather, and watch the part, ing ships bound to distant climes — with what longing...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 - 1922 - 398 lehte
...the school. How wistfully would I wander about the pier-heads in fine weather, and watch the part ing ships bound to distant climes — with what longing...waft myself in imagination to the ends of the earth! Further reading and thinking, though they brought this vague inclination into more reasonable bounds,... | |
 | Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 lehte
...I neglected the regular exercises of the school. How wistfully would I wander about the pier-heads th Further reading and thinking, though they brought this vague inclination into more reasonable bounds,... | |
 | Louis Wann - 1926 - 564 lehte
...dimes - with what he can, not where he would." ongmg eyes would I gaze after their LYLY'S Euphues. 1B lessening sails, and waft myself in imagination to the ends of the earth ! I was always fond of visiting new Further reading and thinking, though scenes, and observing strange... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - 1927 - 1288 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 — with what longing eyes would tive country was full of youthful promise; Europe was rich in the accumulated treasures of age. Her... | |
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