| 1820 - 856 pages
...There can be no exhibition of far-gone wretchedness more striking and painful than to meet it m such a scene. To find it wandering like a spectre, lonely...where all around is gay — to see it dressed out in die trappings of mirth, and looking so wan and wo-begone, as if it had tried in vain to cheat the poor... | |
| Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1820 - 364 pages
...There can be no exhibition of far-gone wretchedness more striking and painful than to meet it in such a scene. To find it wandering like a spectre, lonely...in the trappings of mirth, and looking so wan and wo-begone, as if it had tried in vain to cheat the poor heart into a momentary forgetfulness of sorrow.... | |
| Washington Irving - American essays - 1822 - 424 pages
...There can be no exhibition of far-gone wretchedness more striking and painful than to meet it in such a scene. To find it wandering like a spectre, lonely...in the trappings of mirth, and looking so wan and wo-begone, as if it had tried in vain to cheat the poor heart into a momentary forgetfulness of sorrow.... | |
| William Oxberry - 1822 - 430 pages
...There can be no exhibition of far-gone wretchedness more striking and painful than to meet it in such a scene. To find it wandering like a spectre, lonely...joyless, where all around is gay — to see it dressed ont in the trappings of mirth, and looking so wan and woe-begone, as if it had tried in vain to cheat... | |
| Cabinet - Literature - 1824 - 440 pages
...There can be no exhibition of far-gone wretchedness more striking and painful than to meet it in such a scene. To find it wandering like a spectre, lonely...in the trappings of mirth, and looking so wan and wo-be-gone, as if it had tried in vain to cheat the poor heart into a momentary forgetfulness of sorrow.... | |
| Thomas O'Connor - English literature - 1824 - 180 pages
...There can be no exhibition of far-gone wretchedness more striking and painful than to meet it in such a scene. To 'find it wandering like a spectre, lonely...in the trappings of mirth, and looking so wan and wobegone, as if it had tried in vain to cheat the poor heart into a momentary forgetf'ulness of sorrow.... | |
| Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
...There can be no exhibition of far-gone wretchedness more striking and painful than to meet it in such a scene. To find it wandering like a spectre, lonely...in the trappings of mirth, and looking so wan and wo-begone, as if it had tried in vain to cheat the poor heart into a momentary forgetfulness of sorrow.... | |
| William Oxberry - English literature - 1824 - 382 pages
...There can be no exhibition of far-gone wretchedness more striking and painful than to meet it in such a scene. To find it wandering like a spectre, lonely...in the trappings of mirth, and looking so wan and wo-begone, as if it had tried in vain to cheat the poor heart into a momentary forgetfulness of sorrow.... | |
| 1824 - 394 pages
...There can be no exhibition of far-gone wretchelness more striking and painful thanKi meet it in such a scene. To find it wandering' like a spectre, lonely...joyless, where all around is gay— to see it dressed following lines : " Sheis far from the laud wlnre her young hero sleeps, And lovers around her are... | |
| Adventure and adventurers - 1825 - 844 pages
...There can be no exhibition of far-gone wretchedness more striking and painful than to meet it in such a scene. To find it wandering like a spectre, lonely...in the trappings of mirth, and looking so wan and so woe-begone, as if it had tried to cheat the poor heart into a momentary forgetfulness of sorrow.... | |
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