 | Lucius Osgood - 1858 - 494 pages
...ruin, we strive in vain to recollect the blast or thunderbolt that could have smitten it with decay. 5. I have seen many instances of women running to waste...and have repeatedly fancied that I could trace their deaths through the various declensions of consumption, cold, debility, languor, melancholy, until I... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1866 - 1010 pages
...the forest ; and, as we тше over the beautiful ruin, we strive in vain to recollect the blast or thunderbolt that could have smitten it with decay....seen many instances of women running to waste and self-iirglcct, and disappearing gradually from the earth, almost as if they had been exhaled to heaven... | |
 | Literary bouquet - 1872 - 180 pages
...of the forest ; and as we muse over the beautiful ruin, we strive in vain to recollect the blast or thunderbolt that could have smitten it with decay....debility, languor, melancholy, until I reached the first symptoms of disappointed love. But an instance of the kind was lately told to me ; the circumstances... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 452 pages
...buries it in the recesses of her bosom, and there lets it cower and brood among the ruins of her peace. I have seen many instances of women running to waste...and have repeatedly fancied that I could trace their deaths through the various declensions of consumption, cold, debility, languor, melancholy, until I... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1880 - 460 pages
...have smitten it with decay. 1 have seen many instances of women running to waste and self-neglect18, and disappearing gradually from the earth, almost as if they had been exhaled to heaven19; and have repeatedly fancied that I could trace their death through the various declensions... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1882 - 550 pages
...of the forest ; and as we muse over the beautiful ruin, we strive in vain to recollect the blast or thunderbolt that could have smitten it with decay....fancied that I could trace their death through the I various declensions of consumption, cold, debility, languor, melancholy, until I reached the first... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1882 - 258 pages
...of the forest; and as we muse over the beautiful ruin, we strive in vain to recollect the blast or thunderbolt that could have smitten it with decay....and have repeatedly fancied that I could trace their deaths through the various declensions of consumption, cold, debility, languor, melancholy, until I... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1882 - 712 pages
...of the forest ; and as we muse over the beautiful ruin, we strive in vain to recollect the blast or thunderbolt that could have smitten it with decay....exhaled to heaven, and have repeatedly fancied, that 1 could trace their deaths through the various declensions of consumption, cold, debility, languor,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1882 - 392 pages
...of the forest ; and as we muse over the beautiful ruin, we strive in vain to recollect the blast or thunderbolt that could have smitten it with decay....disappearing gradually from the earth, almost as if they Lad been exhaled to heaven ; and have repeatedly fancied, that I could trace their deaths through the... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1884 - 104 pages
...graceful in its forrti' hright in its foliage, hut with the worm preying at its heart. We THE BROKEN HEART I have seen many instances of women running to waste...disappearing gradually from the earth, almost as if they had heen exhaled to heaven ; and have repeatedly fancied that I could trace their death L-^-.V, ) tV' ^.... | |
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... withering, when it should be most fresh and luxuriant We see it drooping its branches to the earth, and shedding leaf by leaf, until, wasted and perished away, it falls even in the stillness of the forest ; and as we muse over the beautiful ruin,... 
