 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
 | Francis Patrick Donnelly - 1920 - 238 pages
...association. If I had, besides all this, an earnest desire to see the great men of the earth. If It has been either my good or evil lot to have my roving passion gratified. — As it is the fashion for modern tourists to travel pencil in hand, and bring home their portfolios... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1922 - 396 pages
...the_gjgantjc_race Jrom wjucb-I_ain_ degeneraltedT miasTjeen either my good or evil lot to have myTovmg passion gratified. I have wandered through different...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... | |
 | Marion Horton - 1922 - 80 pages
...1897. (Knickerbocker ed). "I was always fond of visiting new scenes and observing strange characters I have wandered through different countries and witnessed...with the eye of a philosopher, but rather with the same sauntering gaze with which the lovers of the picturesque stroll from the window of one printshop... | |
 | Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 pages
...this land of wonders, thought I, and see the gigantic race from which I am degenerated. It has been er print-shop to another; caught sometimes by the delineations of beauty, sometimes by the distortions... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - 1927 - 1288 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 gratified. Truth is a thing that ever I will keep Unto thylke day in which I creep into My scpulcher. — CARTWRICHT.... | |
 | Leary - 50 pages
...Geoffrey Crayon's portfolio were shaded with humor and delicately colored with sentiment, not studied "with the eye of a philosopher; but rather with the...which humble lovers of the picturesque stroll from one shop window of a print shop to another; caught sometimes by the distortions of caricature, and... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1983 - 1198 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... | |
 | Michael Newbury - 1997 - 276 pages
...of Geoffrey Crayon, gent.: "I have wandered through different countries, and witnessed many of the scenes of life. I cannot say that I have studied them...lovers of the picturesque stroll from the window of one print-shop to another; caught sometimes by the delineation of beauty, sometimes by the distortions... | |
 | Gregg Camfield - 1997 - 255 pages
...serve more harm than good if taken seriously. This is a portrait of the artist as a capricious man: I cannot say that I have studied them with the eye...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... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1857 - 910 pages
...Crayon," "through ditferent countries, and witnessed many of the •hifting scenes of life. I i-an not say that I have studied them with the eye of a philosopher, but rather with the sauntering 3110 with which humble lovers of the picturesque stroll from the window of one print-shop to another;... | |
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