| 1820 - 856 páginas
...following extract from this Sketch possesses great beauty of expression, as well as pathos :• — ' Sometimes a distant sail, gliding along the edge of...existence. What a glorious monument of human invention ! that has thus triumphed over wind and wave ; has brought the ends of the earth into communion ; has... | |
| 1819 - 610 páginas
...foundations of the earth, and those wild phantasms that ™e!i the tales of fishermen and sailors. " Sometimes a distant sail, gliding along the edge of...ocean, would be another theme of idle speculation. How interest'ng this fragment of a world, hastening to rejoin the great mass of existence. What a glorious... | |
| Washington Irving - 1822 - 424 páginas
...foundations of the earth ; and of those wild phantasms that swell the tales of fishermen and sailors. Sometimes a distant sail, gliding along the edge of...existence! What a glorious monument of human invention ! that has thus triumphed over wind and wave ; has brought the ends of the world into communion ; has... | |
| Washington Irving - 1820 - 364 páginas
...foundations of the earth; and of those wild phantasms that swell the tales of fishermen and sailors. Sometimes a distant sail, gliding along the edge of...existence. What a glorious monument of human invention ! that has thus triumphed over wind and wave ; has brought the ends of the earth into communion ; has... | |
| John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 páginas
...foundations of the earth ; and those wild phantasms that swell the tales of fishermen and sailors. Sometimes a distant sail gliding along the edge of...existence ! What a glorious monument of human invention, that has thus triumphed over wind and wave : has brought the ends of the earth in communion , has established... | |
| Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 páginas
...foundations of the earth; and of those wild phantasms that swell the tales of fishermen and sailors. Sometimes a distant sail, gliding along the edge of...existence ! What a glorious monument of human invention; that has thus triumphed over wind and wave; has brought the ends of the world into communion ; has... | |
| William Oxberry - 1824 - 384 páginas
...very foundations of the earth; and those wild phantasms that swell the tales of fishermen and sailors. Sometimes a distant sail gliding along the edge of...existence! What a glorious monument of human invention, that has thus triumphed over wind and wave; has brought the ends of the earth in communion; has established... | |
| 1819 - 606 páginas
...foundations of the earth, and those wild phantasms tliat (well the tales of fishermen and sailors. " Sometimes a distant sail, gliding along the edge of the ocean, would be another tbeme of idle speculation. How interesting tlii» fragment of a world, hastening to vot. v. rejoin... | |
| Moses Severance - 1832 - 312 páginas
...foundations of the earth ; and those wild phantasms* that swell the tales of fishermen and sailors, 4. Sometimes a distant sail, gliding along the edge of...existence ! What a glorious monument of human invention, that has thus triumphed over wind and wave; has brought the ends of the earth in communion ; has established... | |
| John J. Harrod - 1832 - 338 páginas
...that swell the tales of fishermen and sailors. 6. Sometimes a distant sail gliding along the ledge of the ocean would be another theme of idle speculation....world hastening to rejoin the great mass of existence! 7. What a glorious monument of human invention, that has thus triumphed over wind and wave; has brought... | |
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