 | 1820 - 856 pages
...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...vain to recollect the blast or thunderbolt that could bave smitten it with decay. ' I have seen many instances of women running to waste and self neglect,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1822 - 424 pages
...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...and have repeatedly fancied that I could trace their death through the various declensions of consumption, cold, debility, languor, melancholy, until I... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1823 - 392 pages
...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...the beautiful ruin, we strive in vain to recollect th e blast or thunderbolt that could have smitten it with decay. I have seen many instances of women... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
...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...and have repeatedly fancied that I could trace their death through the various declensions of consumpBROK tion, cold, debility, languor, melancholy, until... | |
 | Cabinet - 1824 - 440 pages
...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...and have repeatedly fancied that I could trace their death through the various declensions of consumption, cold, debility, languor, melancholy, until I... | |
 | William Oxberry - 1824 - 382 pages
...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...beautiful ruin, we strive in vain to recollect the blaster thunderbolt that could have smitten it with decay. I have seen many instances of women running... | |
 | 1834 - 638 pages
...dropping its hranches to the earth, and shedding leaf hy leaf; until, wasted and perished away, itfalls even in the stillness of the forest ; and, as we muse over the heautiful ruin, we strive in vain to recollect the hlast or thunderholt that could have smitten it... | |
 | Thomas O'Connor - 1824 - 180 pages
...dropping its branches to the earth, and shedding leaf by leaf ; until, wasted and perished awuy, it falls even in the stillness of the forest ; and as we muse over tie beautiful ruin, we strive in vain to recollect the blast or thunder-bolt that could have smitten... | |
 | 1828 - 394 pages
...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...seen many instances of women running to waste and self neglect, and disappearing gradually from the earth, almost as if they had been exhaled to heaven... | |
 | 1828 - 400 pages
...leaf, until-, wasted' amiperished away, it iails even in the stillness of the forest ; and- as ws-.mnse over the beautiful ruin, we strive in vain to recollect...thunderbolt that could have smitten it with decay. 156 IHE CASKET. I have seen many instances of women Tunning to waste and self-neglect, and disappearing... | |
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... and beauty of the grove ; graceful in its form, bright in its foliage, but with the worm preying at its heart. We find it suddenly withering, when it should be most fresh and luxuriant. We see it drooping its branches to the earth, and shedding leaf... 
