 The song of the bird, the murmur of the stream, the breathing fragrance of spring, the soft voluptuousness of summer, the golden pomp of autumn; earth with its mantle of refreshing green, and heaven with its deep delicious blue and its cloudy magnificence,...  Old Christmas - Page 8by Washington Irving - 2005 - 68 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | 1824 - 462 pages
...ui with mute hut exquisite delight, and revel in the luxury uf mere seuxatiun. But in the depth nf winter, when nature lies despoiled of every charm, and wrapped in her shroud of sheeted snuw, we turn for our gratifications to moral sources. The drearinei and desolation of the landscape,... | |
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1820 - 438 pages
...mantle of refreshing green, and heaven with its deep delicious blue and its cloudy magnificence, all fill us with mute but exquisite delight, and we revel...charm, and wrapped in her shroud of sheeted snow, we turn for our gratifications to moral sources. The dreariness and desolation of the landscape, the short... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1821 - 366 pages
...mantle of refreshing green, and heaven with its deep delicious blue and its cloudy magnificence, all fill us with mute but exquisite delight, and we revel...charm, and wrapped in her shroud of sheeted snow, we turn for our gratifications to moral sources. The dreariness and desolation of the landscape, the short... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1821 - 596 pages
...sally forth and dissipate themselves over the sunny landscape, and we " Ijve abroad and every where." But in the depth of winter, when nature lies despoiled of every charm, and wrapt in her shroud of sheeted snow, we turn for our gratifications to moral sources. The dreariness... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1821 - 612 pages
...sally forth and dissipate themselves over the sunny landscape, and we " live abroad and every where." But in the depth of winter, when nature lies despoiled of every charm, and wrapt in her shroud of sheeted snow, we turrt for our gratifications to moral sources. The dreariness... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
...mantle of refreshing green, and heaven with its deep delicious blue and its cloudy magnificence, all fill us with mute but exquisite delight, and we revel...charm, and wrapped in her shroud of sheeted snow, we turn for our gratifications to moral sources. The dreariness and desolation of the landscape, the short... | |
 | American prose literature - 1832 - 478 pages
...mantle of refreshing green, and heaven, with its deep, delicious blue, and its cloudy magnificence, all fill us with mute but exquisite delight, and we revel...charm, and wrapped in her shroud of sheeted snow, we turn for our gratifications to moral sources. The dreariness and desolation of the landscape, the short,... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Readers - 1833 - 288 pages
...of the affections, there to grow young and loving again among the endearing mementos of childhood. The song of the bird, the murmur of the stream, the...delight, and we revel in the luxury of mere sensation. There is something in the very season of the year, that gives a charm to the festivity of Christmas.... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1834 - 334 pages
...refreshing green, and heaven with its deep delicious blue and its cloudy magnificence, all fill UK with. mute but exquisite delight, and we revel in...charm, and wrapped in her shroud of sheeted snow, we turn for our gratifications to moral sources. The dreariness and desolation of the landscape, the short... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1834 - 330 pages
...delicious blue and its cloudy magnificence, all fill us with mute but exquisite delight, and we revel ยป 3 in the luxury of mere sensation. But in the depth...charm, and wrapped in her shroud of sheeted snow, we turn for our gratifications to moral sources. The dreariness and desolation of the landscape, the short... | |
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