 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1820 - 364 pages
...achievement — to tread, as it were, in the footsteps of antiquity — to loiter about the ruined castle — to meditate on the falling tower — to escape, in...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 great... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1822 - 424 pages
...achievement — to tread, as it were, in the footsteps of antiquity — to loiter about the ruined castle — to meditate on the falling tower — to escape, in...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 great... | |
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1823 - 392 pages
...as it were, in the footsteps of antiquity — 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 lose myself among the shadowy grandeurs of the past. I had, besides all this, an earnest desire to see the great... | |
 | 1824 - 394 pages
...— .to tread, as it were, in the footsteps of antiquity — to loiter about the ruined castle — to meditate on the falling tower — to escape, in...common-place realities of the present, and lose myself among the shadowy grandeurs of the past. лл I had, besides all this, an earnest WASHINGTON IRVING.... | |
 | Tobias Merton (pseud) - 1824 - 476 pages
...achievement — to tread, as it were, in the footsteps of antiquity — to loiter about the ruined castle — to meditate on the falling- tower — to escape, in...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 - 1824 - 804 pages
...as it were, 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 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 great... | |
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1834 - 320 pages
...achievement — to tread, as it were, in the footsteps of antiquity — to loiter about the ruined castle — to meditate on the falling tower — to escape, in...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 great... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1835 - 196 pages
...achievement — to tread, as it were, in the footsteps of antiquity — to loiter about the ruined castle — to meditate on the falling tower — to escape, in...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 great... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1836 - 250 pages
...achievement — to tread, as it were, in the footsteps of antiquity — to loiter about the ruined castle — to meditate on the falling tower — to escape, in...commonplace realities of the present, and lose myself among the shadowy grandeurs of the past. I had, beside all this, an earnest desire to see the great... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1839 - 362 pages
...— to tread', as it were', in the footsteps of antiquity" — to loiter about the ruined castle" — to meditate on the falling tower" — to escape',...the commonplace realities of the present', and lose one's self among the shadowy grandeurs of the pdst\ Inflection. — Before each of the members of the... | |
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... to escape, in short, from the commonplace realities of the present, and lose myself among the shadowy grandeurs of the past. 
