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... The Quarterly Review - Page 153edited by - 1863Full view - About this book
| H. M. Melford - English language - 1841 - 466 pages
...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 - Americans - 1843 - 458 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 - Authors, American - 1862 - 408 pages
...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 - History - 1863 - 602 pages
...were to draw a share.' — p. 4. in in New York. ' A sedate, conscientious, God-fearing man,' savs his son's biographer, ' with much of the strictness...purpose to elope from 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... | |
| American periodicals - 1863 - 648 pages
...religious faith. The more kindly and scrupulously we obey ito dictates, the happier we shall be." Hiswhole life, adds his nephew, was an exemplification of this...purpose to elope from home, and engage as a sailor. The idea of living on salt pork, which was his abhorrence, was, however, a great drawback to his resolution... | |
| 1864 - 876 pages
...remarks in his introduction to the Sketch Book : " 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 I" At the age of fifteen Mr. Irving studied Latin, which was his nearest approach to the classics;... | |
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