 | 1820 - 856 pages
...muse over the beautiful ruin, we strive in vain to recollect the blast or thunderbolt that could bave smitten it with decay. ' I have seen many instances of women running to waste and self neglect, and disappearing gradually from the earth, almost as if they had been exhaled to heaven... | |
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1820 - 364 pages
...of the forest ; and as we muse over the beautiful ruin, we strive in vain to recollect the blast or thunderbolt that could have smitten it with decay....have repeatedly fancied, that I could trace their deaths through the various declensions of consumption, cold, debility, languor, melancholy, until I... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
...of the forest; and as we muse over the beautiful ruin, we strive in vain to recollect the blast or thunderbolt that could have smitten it with decay....trace their death through the various declensions of consumpBROK tion, cold, debility, languor, melancholy, until I reached the first symptom of disappointed... | |
 | Thomas O'Connor - English literature - 1824 - 180 pages
...of the forest ; and as we muse over tie beautiful ruin, we strive in vain to recollect the blast or thunder-bolt that could have smitten it with decay....gradually from the earth, almost as if they had been exulted to heaven : and have repeatedly fancied that I could trace their death through the various... | |
 | 1834 - 638 pages
...; and, as we muse over the heautiful ruin, we strive in vain to recollect the hlast or thunderholt that could have smitten it with decay. — I have seen many instances of women running to waste and sell-neglect, and disappearing gradually from the earth, almost as if they had heen exhaled to heaven... | |
 | 1828 - 400 pages
...that could have smitten it with decay. 156 IHE CASKET. I have seen many instances of women Tunning to waste and self-neglect, and disappearing gradually...almost as if they had been exhaled to heaven; and' repeatedly fancied that I could trace their death through the various declensions of consumption,cold... | |
 | Psychology - 1828 - 394 pages
...of the forest ; and as we muse over the beautiful ruin, we strive in vain to recollect the blast or thunderbolt that could have smitten it with decay....seen many instances of women running to waste and self neglect, and disappearing gradually from the earth, almost as if they had been exhaled to heaven... | |
 | Lyman Cobb - Readers - 1834 - 238 pages
...that could have smitten it with decay. 6. I have seen many instances of women running to waste bad. self-neglect, and disappearing gradually from the...and have repeatedly fancied that I could trace their deaths through the various declensions of consumption, colds, debility, languor, melancholy, until... | |
 | Aesthetics - 1834 - 428 pages
...disappearing gradually from the earth ; and have repeatedly fancied I could trace their deaths thro' the various declensions of consumption, cold, debility, languor, melancholy, 'until I reached the first symptoms of disappointed love.— But an instance of the kind was lately told me the circumstances... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1835 - 284 pages
...of the forest ; and, as we muse over the beautiful ruin, we strive in vain to recollect the blast or thunderbolt that could have smitten it with decay....debility, languor, melancholy, until I reached the first sympton of disappointed love. But an instance of the kind was lately told to me ; the circumstances... | |
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... withering, when it should be most fresh and luxuriant We see it drooping its branches to the earth, and shedding leaf by leaf, until, wasted and perished away, it falls even in the stillness of the forest ; and as we muse over the beautiful ruin,... 
