 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
 | American essays - 1896 - 374 pages
...neglected the regular exercises of the school. How-;-tfktfully ^wol1ld: I wander about the pier-heads in fine weather, and watch 'the 'parting ships, bound to distant climes! With what Cioriging. eyes/wouM I gaze after their lessening sails, and waft myself in imagination to the ends... | |
 | Education - 1898 - 390 pages
...places famous in history or fable." Again he writes: "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!" Like Bryant and Lowell, Irving studied law, but soon discovered that literature, not law, had won his... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - Authors, American - 1899 - 268 pages
...introduction to the ' ' Sketch Book " he says, ' ' 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!" CHAPTER II IRVING'S FIRST VOYAGE UP THE HUDSON RIVER Irving's first literary composition seems to have... | |
 | Washington Irving - Stratford-upon-Avon (England) - 1900 - 158 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 ! Farther reading and thinking, though they brought this vague inclination into more reasonable bounds,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1903 - 814 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,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1905 - 460 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 - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1907 - 328 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 1 " Further reading and thinking, though they brought this vague inclination into more reasonable bounds,... | |
 | Henry Pendexter Emerson, Ida Catherine Bender - English language - 1911 - 404 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 I fine scenery, I should have felt little desire to seek elsewhere its gratification; for on no country... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1911 - 470 pages
...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... | |
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