 I have wandered through different countries, and witnessed many of the shifting scenes of life. I cannot say that I have studied them with the eye of a philosopher, but rather with the sauntering gaze with which humble lovers of the picturesque stroll...  The Quarterly Review - Page 52edited by - 1821Full view - About this book
 | Washington Irving - 1835 - 196 pages
...this land of wonders, thought I, and see the gigantic race from which I am degenerated. It has been either my good or evil lot to have my roving passion...lovers of the picturesque stroll from the window of one print-shop to another; caught, sometimes by the .delineations of beauty, sometimes by the distortions... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1836 - 250 pages
...this land of wonders, thought I, and see the gigantic race from which I am degenerated. It has been either my good or evil lot to have my roving passion...lovers of the picturesque stroll from the window of one print-shop to another ; caught sometimes by the delineations of beauty, sometimes by the distortions... | |
 | 1839 - 256 pages
...this land of wonders, thought 1, and see the gigantic race from which I am degenerated. It has been either my good or evil lot to have my roving passion gratified. 1 have wandered through different countries, and witnessed many of the shifting scenes of life. I cannot... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1843 - 400 pages
...this land of wonders, thought I, and see the gigantic race from which I am degenerated. It has been either my good or evil lot to have my roving passion...many of the shifting scenes of life. I cannot say thatl have studied them with the eye of a philosopher; but rather with the sauntering gaze with which... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1848 - 478 pages
...this land of wonders, thought I, and see the gigantic race from which I am degenerated. It has been either my good or evil lot to have my roving passion...lovers of the picturesque stroll from the window of one print-shop to another ; caught, sometimes by the delineations of beauty, sometunes by the distortions... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1849 - 544 pages
...this land of wonders, thought I, and see the gigantic race from which I am degenerated. It has been either my good or evil lot to have my roving passion...lovers of the picturesque stroll from the window of one print-shop to another; caught, sometimes by the delineations of beauty, sometimes by the distortions... | |
 | 1857 - 884 pages
...dreaming, now impulsive and active. "I have wandered," he says, in his character of " Geoffrey Crayon," "through different countries, and witnessed many of the shifting scenes of life. I ' ¡in not say that I have studied them with the eye ofa philosopher, but rather with the sauntering... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1865 - 518 pages
...wonders, thought I, and str the gigantic race from which I miI degenerated. It has lx-en either my gtxxl or evil lot to have my roving passion gratified. I...lovers of the picturesque stroll from the window of one print-shop to another; caught, sometimes by the delineations of beauty, sometimes by the distortions... | |
 | Acrostics - 1867 - 302 pages
...see a peerless warrior stand, Though first he goes, still back he throws his eye upon the land." 4. " I have wandered through different countries, and witnessed many of the shifting scenes of life." 6. "Oh, my maidens!" quoth the lady, "my heart it is full sore ; I have dreamt a dream of evil, and... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1880 - 460 pages
...which I am degenerated. It has been either my good or evil lot to have my roving passion gratified26. I have wandered through different countries, and witnessed many of the shifting scenes of Hfe. I cannot say that I have studied them with the eye of a philosopher; but rather with the sauntering... | |
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