 | Washington Irving - 1822 - 424 էջ
...in the footsteps of antiquity — to loiter about the ruined castle — to meditate on the falling tower — to escape, in short, from the common-place...lose myself among the shadowy grandeurs of the past. I had, besides all this, an earnest desire to see the great men of the earth. We have, it is true,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1820 - 364 էջ
...in the footsteps of antiquity — to loiter about the ruined castle — to meditate on the falling tower — to escape, in short, from the common-place...lose myself among the shadowy grandeurs of the past. I had, besides all this, an earnest desire to see the great men of the earth. We have, it is true,... | |
 | 1820 - 610 էջ
...were in the footsteps of antiquity — to loiter about the ruined entle — to meditate on the falling tower — to escape, in short, from the common-place realities of the present, and lose myself amongst the shadowy grandeurs of the past !" Thus a modern American writer attests the distinct as... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 էջ
...in the footsteps of antiquity — to loiter about the ruined castle — to meditate oo the falling tower — to escape, in short, from the common-place...lose myself among the shadowy grandeurs of the past. I had, besides all this, an earnest desire to see the great men of the earth. We have, it is true,... | |
 | 1824 - 394 էջ
...in the footsteps of antiquity — to loiter about the ruined castle — to meditate on the falling tower — to escape, in short, from the common-place...lose myself among the shadowy grandeurs of the past. «« I had, besides all this, an earnest WASHINGTON IRVING. 391 *1esire to gee the great men of the... | |
 | Tobias Merton (pseud) - 1824 - 476 էջ
...in the footsteps of antiquity — to loiter about the ruined castle — to meditate on the falling- tower — to escape, in short, from the common-place realities of the present, and lose himself among the shadowy grandeur of the past," he soon saw " the last blue line of his native land... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1829 - 520 էջ
...in the footsteps of antiquity — to loiter about the ruined castle — to meditate on the falling tower — to escape, in short, from the commonplace...and lose myself among the shadowy grandeurs of the past.4 I had, beside all this, an earnest desire to see the great men of the earth. We have, it is... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1834 - 320 էջ
...in the footsteps of antiquity — to loiter about the ruined castle — to meditate on the falling tower — to escape, in short, from the common-place...lose myself among the shadowy grandeurs of the past. I had, besides all this, an earnest desire to see the great men of the earth. We have, it is true,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1835 - 196 էջ
...in the footsteps of antiquity — to loiter about the ruined castle — to meditate on the falling tower — to escape, in short, from the common-place...of the present , and lose myself among the shadowy grandenrs of the past. I had, besides all this, an earnest desire to see the great men of the earth.... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1836 - 250 էջ
...in the footsteps of antiquity — to loiter about the ruined castle — to meditate on the falling tower — to escape, in short, from the commonplace...lose myself among the shadowy grandeurs of the past. I had, beside all this, an earnest desire to see the great men of the earth. We have, it is true, our... | |
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