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 (london) - Seite 153von Anonymous - 1863 - 484 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1819 - 610 Seiten
...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. " Farther reading and '.hinking, though they brought this vague inclination into more reasonable bounds,... | |
| Washington Irving - 1822 - 424 Seiten
...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 ! Farther reading and thinking, though they brought this vague inclination into more reasonable bounds,... | |
| Washington Irving - 1820 - 364 Seiten
...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. Farther reading and thinking, though they brought this vague inclination into more reasonable bounds,... | |
| Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 Seiten
...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 ! Farther reading and thinking, though they brought this vague inclination into more reasonable bounds,... | |
| 1824 - 394 Seiten
...I neglected the regular exercises of the school. How wistfully would 1 wander about the pier heads 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 ituo more reasonable bounds,... | |
| Tobias Merton (pseud) - 1824 - 476 Seiten
...neglected the regular exercises of the school. How wishfully would I wander about the pier-head in tine weather, and watch the parting ships, bound to distant...gaze after their lessening sails, and waft myself in imagination'-to the ends of the earth !" He first visited various parts of his own country, but, longing... | |
| 1863 - 622 Seiten
...after history, grew up an imaginative, impressive child, with quick tastes and ready sympathies,and a strong predilection for almost everything in turn...climes ! — with what longing eyes would I gaze after tlieir lessening sails, and waft myself in imagination to the ends of the earth ! ' At the age of fourteen,... | |
| Washington Irving - 1834 - 320 Seiten
...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 ! Farther reading and thinking, though they brought this vague inclination into more reasonable bounds,... | |
| Washington Irving - 1834 - 316 Seiten
...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 I gazs after their lessening sails, and waft myself in imagination to the ends of the earth ! Farther... | |
| Washington Irving - 1836 - 250 Seiten
...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 ! Farther reading and thinking, though they brought this vague inclination into more reasonable bounds,... | |
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