 ... improvement, which is making such incessant changes in other parts of this restless country, sweeps by them unobserved. They are like those little nooks of still water which border a rapid stream; where we may see the straw and bubble riding quietly...  Works - Page 440by Washington Irving - 1848Full view - About this book
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1820 - 438 pages
...may see the straw and bubble riding quietly at anchor, or slowly revolving in their mimic harbour, undisturbed by the rush of the passing current. Though...remote period of American history, that is to say, some thirty years since, a worthy wight of the name of Ichabod Crane ; who sojourned, or, as he expressed... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1821 - 366 pages
...may see the straw and bubble riding quietly at anchor, or slowly revolving in their mimic harbour, undisturbed by the rush of the passing current. Though...remote period of American history, that is to say, some thirty years since, a worthy wight of the name of Ichabod Crane; who sojourned, or, as he expressed... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1821 - 612 pages
...way back is owing to his being ' belated,' and in a hurry to reach the churchyard before daybreak. ' In this by-place of nature there abode, in a remote period of American history, that is to say some thirty years since, a worthy wight of the name of Ichabod Crane, who sojourned, or, as he expressed... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1821 - 596 pages
...way back is owing to his being ' belated,' and in a hurry to reach the churchyard before daybreak. 1 In this by-place of nature there abode, in a remote period of American history, that is to say some thirty years since, a worthy wight of the name of Ichabod Crane, who sojourned, or, as he expressed... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
...may see the straw and bubble riding quietly at anchor, or slowly revolving in their mimic harbour, undisturbed by the rush of the passing current. Though...and the same families vegetating in its sheltered bosomIn this by-place of nature there abode, in a remote period of American history, that is to say,... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1830 - 346 pages
...may see the straw and bubble riding quietly at anchor, or slowly revolving in their mimic harbour, undisturbed by the rush of the passing current. Though...the same families vegetating in its sheltered bosom. Ichahod Crane. IN this by-place of nature there abode, in a remote period of American history, that... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1834 - 334 pages
...may see the straw and bubble riding quietly at anchor, or slowly revolving in their mimic harbour, undisturbed by the rush of the passing current. Though...remote period of American history, that is to say, some thirty years since, a worthy wight of the name of Ichabod Crane ; who sojourned, or, as he expressed... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1835 - 284 pages
...we may see the straw and bubble ridmg quietly at anchor, or slowly revolving in their mimic harbour, undisturbed by the rush of the passing current. Though...the same families vegetating in its sheltered bosom. Ichabod Crane. IN this by-place of nature there abode, in a remote 13* period of American history,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1835 - 194 pages
...or .slowly revolving in their mimic harbonr , undisturbed by the rush of the passing current. Thongh many years have elapsed since I trod the drowsy shades of Sleepy Hollow, yet I question whether I shonld not still find the same trees and the same families vegetating in its sheltered bosom. In this... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1836 - 274 pages
...may see the straw and bubble riding quietly at anchor, or slowly revolving in their mimic harbour, undisturbed by the rush of the passing current. Though...the drowsy shades of Sleepy Hollow, yet I question \vhcther I should not still find the same trees and the same families vegetating in its sheltered bosom.... | |
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