 | 1819 - 610 pages
...history of times gone by, • and every mouldering stone was a chronicle. I longed to wander over the scenes of renowned achievement — to tread, as it...to meditate on the falling tower — to escape, in " To an American visiting Europe, the short, from the commonplace realities of long voyage he has to... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1822 - 424 pages
...the history of times gone by, and every mouldering stone was a chronicle. I longed to wander over the scenes of renowned achievement — to tread, as it...the common-place realities of the present, and lose myself among the shadowy grandeurs of the past. I had, besides all this, an earnest desire to see the... | |
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1820 - 364 pages
...the history of times gone by, and every mouldering stone was a chronicle. I longed to wander over the scenes of renowned achievement — to tread, as it...the common-place realities of the present, and lose myself among the shadowy grandeurs of the past. I had, besides all this, an earnest desire to see the... | |
 | 1820 - 612 pages
...the history of times gone by, and every mouldering stoue was a chronicle. I longed lo wander over the scenes of renowned achievement — to tread as it...footsteps of antiquity — to loiter about the ruined entle — to meditate on the falling tower — to escape, in short, from the common-place realities... | |
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1823 - 392 pages
...the history of times gone by, and every mouldering stone was a chronicle. I longed to wander over the scenes of renowned achievement — to tread, as it...to loiter about the ruined castle — to meditate oii the falling tower — to escape, in short, from the common-place realities of the present, and... | |
 | 1824 - 394 pages
...the history of times gone by, aud every mouldering stone was a chronicle. 1 longed to wander over the scenes of renowned achievement — .to tread, as it...the common-place realities of the present, and lose myself among the shadowy grandeurs of the past. «« I had, besides all this, an earnest WASHINGTON... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
...the history of times gone by, and every mouldering stone was a chronicle. I longed to wander over the scenes of renowned achievement — to tread, as it...to loiter about the ruined castle — to meditate oo the falling tower — to escape, in short, from the common-place realities of the present, and lose... | |
 | English literature - 1819 - 606 pages
...wander over the or volcano in his whole collection. scenes of renowned achievement — to tread, ^___ as it were, in the footsteps of antiquity— to loiter about the ruined castle — to medi- THE VOYAGEtäte on the falling tower — to escape, in " To an American visiting Europe, the... | |
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1834 - 320 pages
...the history of times gone by, and every mouldering stone was a chronicle. I longed to wander over the scenes of renowned achievement — to tread, as it...the common-place realities of the present, and lose myself among the shadowy grandeurs of the past. I had, besides all this, an earnest desire to see the... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1835 - 196 pages
...the history of times gone by, and every mouldering stone was a chronicle. I longed to wander over the scenes of renowned achievement — to tread, as it...the common-place realities of the present , and lose myself among the shadowy grandenrs of the past. I had, besides all this, an earnest desire to see the... | |
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My native country was full of youthful promise ; Europe was rich in the accumulated treasures of age. Her very ruins told the history of times gone by, and every mouldering stone was a chronicle. I longed to wander over the scenes of renowned achievement... 
