Connecticut ; and would frighten them wofully with speculations upon comets and shooting stars ; and with the alarming fact that the world did absolutely turn round, and that they were half the time topsyturvy ! But if there was a pleasure in all this,... The Quarterly Review - Page 50edited by - 1821Full view - About this book
| Washington Irving - 1820 - 438 pages
...alarming fact that the world did absolutely turn round, and that they were half the time topsy-turvy ! But if there was a pleasure in all this, while snugly...show its face, it was dearly purchased by the terrors of.Jiis subsequent walk homewards. What fearful shapes and shadows beset his path amidst the dim and... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1821 - 596 pages
...Connecticut, a state which supplies the Union with pioneers for the mind as well as for the forests, and sends forth yearly its legions of frontier woodmen...chimney corner of a chamber that was all of a ruddy alow from the crackling wood fire, and where of course no spectre dared to show its face, it was dearly... | |
| Washington Irving - 1821 - 328 pages
...alarming fact that the world did absolutely turn round, and that they were half the time topsy-turvy ! But if there was a pleasure in all this, while snugly cuddling in the chimney cdrner of a chamber that was all of a ruddy glow from the crackling wood fire; and where, of course,... | |
| Washington Irving - 1831 - 518 pages
...alarming fact that the world did absolutely turn round, and that they were half the time topsy-turvy ! But if there was a pleasure in all this, while snugly...fire and where, of course, no spectre dared to show it» face, it was dearly purchased by the terrors of his subsequent walk homewards. What fearful shapes... | |
| Washington Irving - 1835 - 194 pages
...alarming fact that the world did absolutely turn round , and , that they were half the time topsyturvy ! , But if there was a pleasure in all this , while snugly...that was all of a ruddy glow from the crackling wood lire , and where of course , no spectre dared to show its face , it was dearly purchased by the terrors... | |
| Washington Irving - 1848 - 550 pages
...absolutely turn round, and that they were half the time topsyturvy ! But if there was a pleasure in aU this, while snugly cuddling in the chimney corner...shapes and shadows beset his path amidst the dim and ghastlv glare of a snowy night ! — With what wistful look did he eye every trembling ray of light... | |
| Washington Irving - 1853 - 524 pages
...alarming fact that the world did absolutely turn round, and that they were half the time topsyturvy ! But if there was a pleasure in all this, while snugly...show its face, it was dearly purchased by the terrors cf his subsequent walk homewards. What fearful shapes and shadows beset his path amidst the dim and... | |
| Washington Irving - 1861 - 474 pages
...alarming fact that the world did absolutely turn round, and that they were half the time topsy-turvy ! But if there was a pleasure in all this, while snugly...fire, and where, of course, no spectre dared to show his face, it was dearly purchased by the terrors of his subsequent walk homewards. What fearful shapes... | |
| Washington Irving - 1865 - 532 pages
...and that they were half the time topsy-turvy ! But if there was a pleasure in all this, while snuglv cuddling in the chimney corner of a chamber that was...fire, and where, of course, no spectre dared to show his face, it was dearly purchased by the terrors of his subsequent walk homewards. What fearful shapes... | |
| Washington Irving - 1864 - 520 pages
...alarming fact that the world did absolutely turn round, and that they were hah0 the time topsy-turvy ! But if there was a pleasure in all this, while snugly cuddling in the chimney-corner of a chamber that was all of a ruddy glow from the crackling wood-fire, and where, of... | |
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