 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
 | Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) - 1881
...England. Washington, as might be supposed from his after history, grew up an imaginative, impressionable child, with quick tastes and ready sympathies, and...lessening sails, and waft myself in imagination to the end of the ends of the earth!' At the age of fourteen, says his biographer, this desire ' had nearly... | |
 | Swan Sonnenschein (and co, ltd.) - 1884 - 234 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 ! 5. Further reading and thinking, though they brought this vague inclination into more reasonable... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1884 - 472 pages
...Sketch-Book," where he says, " How wistfully would I wander about the pier-heads in fine weather, and watch the ships bound to distant climes. With what longing eyes would I gaze upon their lessening sails, and waft myself, in imagination, to the ends of the earth ! " So strong... | |
 | Sarah Knowles Bolton - Literary Criticism - 1887 - 514 pages
...his preface to the Sketch-Book he wrote, " How wistfully would I wander about the pier-heads in tine weather, and watch the parting ships bound to distant...waft myself in imagination to the ends of the earth." While his brothers, L'eter and John, were sent to Columbia College, his education at the schools was... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1891 - 270 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,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1891 - 116 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,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1892 - 422 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,... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1892 - 170 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,... | |
 | Washington Irving - Short stories - 1894 - 234 pages
...neglected the regular exercises of the school. How wistfully would I wander aboiit the 9 pier-heads in fine weather, and watch the parting ships, bound...waft myself in imagination to the ends of the earth ! •BpatiMB ii nliiii, and thinking, though they brought this vague inclination into more reasonable... | |
 | Washington Irving - Americans - 1848 - 482 pages
...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,... | |
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