 I recollect tha't, when a stripling, my first exploit in squirrelshooting was in a grove of tall walnut-trees that shades one side of the valley. I had wandered into it at noontime, when all nature is peculiarly quiet, and was startled by the roar of...  International Short Stories: American - Page 20edited by - 1910Full view - About this book
 | Annette Kolodny - 1975 - 204 pages
...the face of this shift, Irving had consigned the maternally oriented pastoral "retreat, whither [one] might steal from the world and its distractions, and...dream quietly away the remnant of a troubled life," to the landscape of the imagination. The "Legend," then, is not merely the story of "the blooming Katrina's"... | |
 | A. Robert Lee - 1986 - 216 pages
...the great good place which resists the relentless pressures exerted by time. The narrator comments: If ever I should wish for a retreat, whither I might...know of none more promising than this little valley. A 'drowsy, dreamy influence seems to hang over the land, and to pervade the very atmosphere' of this... | |
 | Various, Authors Various Authors - 2003 - 616 pages
...valley. I had wandered into it at noon-time, when all nature is peculiarly quiet, and was startled by the roar of my own gun as it broke the Sabbath stillness...the world and its distractions, and dream quietly nway the remnant of a troubled life, I know of none more promising than this little villey. From the... | |
 | Readpal, Louis Crowe - 2006 - 220 pages
...valley. 1 had wandered into it at noontime, when all nature is peculiarly quiet, and was startled by the roar of my own gun, as it broke the Sabbath stillness...prolonged and reverberated by the angry echoes. If ever 1 should wish for a retreat whither 1 might steal from the world and its distractions, and dream quietly... | |
 | Washington Irving - 2007 - 105 pages
...valley. I had wandered into it at noontime, when all nature is peculiarly quiet, and was startled by the roar of my own gun, as it broke the Sabbath stillness...little valley. From the listless repose of the place, anci the peculiar character of its inhabitants, who are descendants from the original Dutch settlers,... | |
 | Leroy E. Armstrong - 1916 - 408 pages
...valley. I had wandered into it at noontime, when all nature is peculiarly quiet, and was startled by the roar of my own gun, as it broke the Sabbath stillness...know of none more promising than this little valley. 3. From the listless repose of the place, and the peculiar character of its inhabitants, who are descendants... | |
 | 1908 - 386 pages
...home of Irving, still bears witness that he fuffilled the plan of his early years, when he wrote : "If ever I should wish for a retreat, whither I might steal from the busy world and its distractions, and dream quietly away the remnant of a troubled life, I know of none... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1857 - 910 pages
...indeed, which long, long ago he said he should covet, if he ever wished "for a retreat, whither he might steal from the world and its distractions, and dream quietly away the remainder of a troubled life." Happily he has not reached his sighed-for haven, wrecked upon the rocks... | |
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