| Washington Irving - 1891 - 278 pages
...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...hastening to rejoin the great mass of existence ! What a gloriras monument of human invention; which has in a manner triumphed over wind and wave ; has brought,... | |
| Washington Irving - 1892 - 422 pages
...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, which has in a manner triumphed over wind and wave ; has brought the ends of the world into communion... | |
| Washington Irving - Short stories - 1894 - 234 pages
...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 ; which has in a manner triumphed over wind and wave ; has brought the ends of the world into communion... | |
| John Ulrich Ransom - German language - 1894 - 172 pages
...resembled. For list of other Verbs governing the Dative, see LOO p. 171. 16. OUT AT SEA. SOMETIMES1 a distant sail, | gliding along the edge of the ocean,...| would be another theme of idle speculation. How interesting2 this fragment of a world, | hastening3 | to4 rejoin the great mass of existence ! 5 What... | |
| Washington Irving - Americans - 1848 - 482 pages
...that swell the tales of fishermen and sailors. Sometimes a distant sail, gliding along the edge of tha ocean, would be another theme of idle speculation....existence ! What a glorious monument of human invention ; which has in a manner triumphed over wind and wave ; has brought the ends of the world into communion... | |
| Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1896 - 800 pages
...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, which has in a manner triumphed over wind and wave ; has brought the ends of the world into communion... | |
| Literature - 1896 - 910 pages
...Stars silent rost o'er us. Graves under us silent. It was strange and startling Indeed to think of "this fragment of a world hastening to rejoin the great mass of existence." of this little oasis of life and humanity in the wide wilderness of the desert-ocenn. For I found the... | |
| Washington Irving - 1899 - 220 pages
...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; which has in a manner triumphed over wind and wave; has brought the ends of the world into communion;... | |
| Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1901 - 218 pages
...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; which has in a manner triumphed over wind and wave ; has brought the ends of the world into communion... | |
| Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1901 - 538 pages
...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...ocean, would be another theme of idle speculation. 15 How interesting this fragment of a world, hastening to rejoin the great mass of existence ! What... | |
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