 I sat down by the wayside of life, like a man under enchantment, and a shrubbery sprung up around me, and the bushes grew to be saplings, and the saplings became trees, until no exit appeared possible, through the entangling depths of my obscurity.  The Pardoner's Wallet - Page 249by Samuel McChord Crothers - 1905 - 287 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1866 - 662 pages
...life, the obscurest man of letters in America, and thus humorously pictures his mode of existence : " I sat down by the wayside of life, like a man under enchantment ; and a shrubbery sprung up around me, and the bushes grew to be saplings, and the saplings became... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1853 - 280 pages
...there ever such a weary delay in obtaining the slightest recognition from the public, as in my case ? I sat down by the wayside of life, like a man under enchantment, and a shrubbery sprung up around me, and the bashes grew to be saplings, and the saplings became trees,... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1865 - 446 pages
...there ever such a weary delay in obtaining the slightest recognition from the public, as in my case ? I sat down by the wayside of life, like a man under enchantment, and a shrubbery sprung up around me, and the bushes grew to be saplings, and the saplings became trees,... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - 1870 - 560 pages
...there ever such a weary delay in obtaining the slightest recognition from the public, as in my case ? I sat down by the way-side of life, like a man under enchantment, and a shrubbery sprung up around me, and the bushes grew to be saplings, and the saplings became trees,... | |
 | 1886 - 994 pages
...such a weary delay in obtaining the slightest recognition from the public," he asks, " as in my case ? I sat down by the wayside of life like a man under enchantment." " Trouble," he says in another place, " is the next best thing to enjoyment ; and there is no fate... | |
 | Alexander Hay Japp - 1872 - 364 pages
...only to deepen the sense of sombre loneliness, when the glimpse of it is momentarily lost again. ' I sat down by the wayside of life, like a man under enchantment, and a shrubbery sprang up around me, and the bushes grew to be saplings, and c the saplings became... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1872 - 328 pages
...only to deepen the sense of sombre loneliness, when the glimpse of it is momentarily lost again. ' I sat down by the wayside of life, like a man under enchantment, and a shrubbery sprang up around me, and the bushes grew to be saplings, and C the saplings became... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1879 - 274 pages
...there ever such a weary delay in obtaining the slightest recognition from the public, as in my case ? I sat down by the wayside of life, like a man under enchantment, and a shrubbery sprung up around me, and the bushes grew to be saplings, and the saplings became trees,... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1879 - 638 pages
...there ever such aweary delay in obtaining the slightest recognition from the publie, as in my case ? I sat down by the wayside of life, like a man under enehantment, and a shrubbery sprung up around me, and the bushes grew to be saplings, and the saplings... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1882 - 280 pages
...book, " such a weary delay in obtaining the slightest recognition from the public, as in my case ? I sat down by the wayside of life, like a man under enchantment, and a shrubbery sprung up around me, ^nd the bushes grew to be saplings, and the saplings became trees,... | |
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