Retrospect of Western Travel, Volume 1Saunders and Otley, 1838 - 239 pages |
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Page 14
... of a friend was at the door , with bouquets of flowers , and baskets of grapes and other acid refreshments , which it was thought might be welcome at sea . " Have you no misgivings ? " asked an intimate 14 * WESTERN TRAVEL .
... of a friend was at the door , with bouquets of flowers , and baskets of grapes and other acid refreshments , which it was thought might be welcome at sea . " Have you no misgivings ? " asked an intimate 14 * WESTERN TRAVEL .
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... thoughts all through their lives upon the kind gentleman who attended to them on the voyage . For some time I was daily baffled in my purpose of wri- ting by the observation of persons who seemed not only en- tirely ignorant of the ...
... thoughts all through their lives upon the kind gentleman who attended to them on the voyage . For some time I was daily baffled in my purpose of wri- ting by the observation of persons who seemed not only en- tirely ignorant of the ...
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... thought that is beauti- ful comes back softly and mysteriously ; snatches of old songs , all one's first loves in poetry and in the phantasma- goria of nature . No sleep is sweeter than that into which one sinks in such a mood , when ...
... thought that is beauti- ful comes back softly and mysteriously ; snatches of old songs , all one's first loves in poetry and in the phantasma- goria of nature . No sleep is sweeter than that into which one sinks in such a mood , when ...
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... thought we should have been at New - York to - day . I found that he had actually expected this up to the night before , because he had been told , previous to sailing , that we should probably spend our fourth Sunday at New - York . It ...
... thought we should have been at New - York to - day . I found that he had actually expected this up to the night before , because he had been told , previous to sailing , that we should probably spend our fourth Sunday at New - York . It ...
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... thoughts wandered homeward to the sportsmen all abroad in the stubble , to the readers of monthly periodicals in which we were interested , and to our families , who were doubtless fancying us on the point of landing , we were not far ...
... thoughts wandered homeward to the sportsmen all abroad in the stubble , to the readers of monthly periodicals in which we were interested , and to our families , who were doubtless fancying us on the point of landing , we were not far ...
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