 | Washington Irving - Astoria (Or.) - 1849 - 756 pages
...and confiding simplicity, and suffered their scrutiny with perfect acquiescence, winning them by his benignity. They now supposed that the ships had sailed...crystal firmament which bounded their horizon, or had descended from above on their ample wings, and that these marvelous beings were inhabitants of... | |
 | Washington Irving - Readers - 1849 - 278 pages
...and confiding simplicity, and suffered their scrutiny with perfect acquiescence, winning them by his benignity. They now supposed that the ships had sailed...crystal firmament which bounded their horizon, or had descended from above on their ample wings, and that these marvellous beings were inhabitants of... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1850 - 456 pages
...and confiding simplicity, and suffered their scrutiny with perfect acquiescence, winning them by his benignity. They now supposed that the ships had sailed...crystal firmament which bounded their horizon, or had descended from above on their ample wings, and that these marvelous beings were inhabitants of... | |
 | John Frost - 1851 - 1058 pages
...whiteness. Columbus treated them with kindness ; they supposed that the ships had sailed out of the firmament which bounded their horizon, or that they had descended from above, and that these strange beings were inhabitants of the skies. The island which the Spaniards had discovered... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 782 pages
...eo strange and formidable, suffered their scrutiny with perfect acquiescence. The wondering savages of loveliness ; I should be sole in this sweet solitude,...of the water into the palm of hit hand, and flinps n¡,.l the charms of the climate, of this new worlu ; and on his at rival at Cuba, these raptures arc,... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 782 pages
...from ahove on their ample wings, and that these marvellous beings were inhabitant« of the ikies." ence and venerauon for antiquity of his predecessor—there...hang with rapture on the half of Campbell—and t ;.,..! the charms uf the climate, of this new worlu, and on his ai rival at Cuba, these raptures are,... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 322 pages
...the Spaniards had inspired them, approached them with great awe, and making signs of adoration. They supposed that the ships had sailed out of the crystal firmament which bounded their I 1 ,,izon, or that they had descended from above on their ample wings, and that these marvellous strangers... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1853 - 310 pages
...and confiding simplicity, and suffered their scrutiny with perfect acquiescence, winning them by his benignity. They now supposed that the ships had sailed...crystal firmament which bounded their horizon, or had descended from above, on their ample wings, and that these marvellous beings were inhabitants of... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1853 - 444 pages
...and confiding simplicity, and suffered their scrutiny with perfect acquiescence, winning them by his benignity. They now supposed that the ships had sailed...crystal firmament which bounded their horizon, or had descended from above on their ample wings, and that these marvelous beings were inhabitants of... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1854 - 780 pages
...so strange and formidable, suffered their scrutiny wilh perfect acquiescence. The wondering savages were won by this benignity ; they now supposed that...sailed out of the crystal firmament which bounded iheir horizon, or that they had descended from above on their ample wings, and that these marvellous... | |
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... benignity. They now supposed that the ships had sailed out of the crystal firmament which bounded their horizon, or had descended from above on their ample wings, and that these marvellous beings were inhabitants of the skies. 
