 ... there is something inexpressibly lonely in the solitude of a prairie. The loneliness of a forest seems nothing to it. There the view is shut in by trees, and the imagination is left free to picture some livelier scene beyond. But here we have an immense...  The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine - Side 352redigert av - 1835Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Washington Irving - 1835 - 220 sider
...free to picture some livelier scene beyond ; but here we have an immense extent of landscape, without a sign of human existence. We have the consciousness...silence of the waste was now and then broken by the cry of a distant flock of pelicans, stalking like spectres about a shallow pool, sometimes by the sinister... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1849 - 394 sider
...free to picture some livelier scene beyond. But here we have an immense extent of landscape without a sign of human existence. We have the consciousness...silence of the waste was now and then broken by the cry of a distant flock of pelicans, stalking like spectres about a shallow pool; sometimes by the sinister... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1851 - 398 sider
...free to picture some livelier scene beyond. But here we have an immense extent of landscape without a sign of human existence. We have the consciousness...silence of the waste was now and then broken by the cry of a distant flock of pelicans, stalking like spectres about a shallow pool ; sometimes by the sinister... | |
 | James Stuart Laurie - 1863 - 328 sider
...free to picture some livelier scene beyond. But here we have an immense extent of landscape without a sign of human existence. We have the consciousness...silence of the waste was now and then broken by the cry of a distant flock of pelicans, stalking like spectres about a shallow pool; sometimes by the sinister... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1863 - 392 sider
...picture some livelier scene beyond. But hero we have an immense extent of landscape without a sig'.i of human existence. We have the consciousness of being...silence of the waste was now and then broken by the cry cf a distant flock of pelicans, stalking like spectres about a shallow pool ; sometimes by the sinister... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1865 - 498 sider
...free to picture some livelier scene beyond. But here we have an immense extent of landscape without a sign of human existence. We have the consciousness of being far far beyoiid the bounds of human habitation ; we fuel as if moving in the midst of a desert world. As my... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1868 - 478 sider
...immense extent of landscape without a sign of human existence. We have the consciousness of being fur, far beyond the bounds of human habitation ; we feel...silence of the waste was now and then broken by the cry of a distant flock of pelicans, stalking like spectres about a shallow pool ; sometimes by the sinister... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1868 - 466 sider
...free to picture some livelier scene beyond. But here we have an immense extent of landscape without a sign of human existence. We have the consciousness...of our late scamper, and the delirium of the chase htul passed away, I was peculiarly sensible to these circumstances. The silence of the waste was now... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1868 - 462 sider
...free to picture some livelier scene beyond. But here we have an immense extent of landscape without a sign of human existence. We have the consciousness...moving in the midst of a desert world. As my horse lugged slowly back over the scenes of our late scamper, and the delirium of the chase had passed away,... | |
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