 | 1820 - 876 pagina’s
...primeval simplicity, which float before our imaginations like golden visions. The fire-places were of a truly patriarchal magnitude, where the whole...dog enjoyed a community of privilege, and had each a prescriptive right to a corner. Here the old burgher would sit in perfect silence, puffing his pipe,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1819 - 302 pagina’s
...primeval simplicity, which float before our imaginations like golden visions. The fire-places were of a truly patriarchal magnitude, where the whole...Here the old burgher would sit in perfect silence, puifing his pipe, looking in the fire with half shut eyes, and thinking of nothing for hours together;... | |
 | 1820 - 730 pagina’s
...of primeval simplicity, which Boat before our imaginations like golden visions. The fire-place were of a truly patriarchal magnitude, where the whole...dog enjoyed a community of privilege, and had each a prescriptive ru! to a comer. Here the old burgher woulJ sit in perfect silence, puffing his pipe, lucking... | |
 | 1820 - 490 pagina’s
...primeval simplicity, which float before our imaginations like golden »isions. The fire-placea were of a truly patriarchal magnitude, where the whole...dog enjoyed a community of privilege, and had each a prescriptive right to a corner. Here the old burgher would sit in perfect silence, pufting his pipe,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1821 - 414 pagina’s
...primeval simplicity, which float before our imaginations like golden visions. The fire-places were of a truly patriarchal magnitude, where the whole...enjoyed a community of privilege, .and had each a prescriptive right to a corner. Here the old burgher would sit in perfect silence, puffing his pipe,... | |
 | George Lockhart - 1824 - 870 pagina’s
...of primeval simplicity, which float before our imaginations like golden visions. The fireplaces were of a truly patriarchal magnitude, where the whole...dog enjoyed a community of privilege, and had each a prescriptive right to a corner. Here the old burgher would sit in perfect silence, puffing his pipe,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1825 - 356 pagina’s
...of a truly patriarchal magnitnde, where the whule family, olid and young, master and servant, hlack and white, nay, even the very cat and dog, enjoyed a community of privilege, and had each a prescriptive right to a corner. Here the old hurgher would sit in perfect silence, puffing his pipe,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1828 - 354 pagina’s
...of a truly patriarchal magnitnde, where the whole family, old and young, master and servant, hlack and white, nay, even the very cat and dog, enjoyed a community of privilege, and had each a prescriptive right to a corner. Here the old hurgher would sit in perfect silence, puffing his pipe,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1829 - 292 pagina’s
...our imaginations like golden VOL. I. P 170 A NEW- AMSTERDAM FIRE-SIDE. visions. The fire-places were of a truly patriarchal magnitude, where the whole...silence, puffing his pipe, looking in the fire with half-shut eyes, and thinking of nothing for hours together ; the goede vrouw on the opposite side would... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1831 - 522 pagina’s
...patriarc magnitude, where the whole family, old and you master and servant, black and white, nay, even very cat and dog, enjoyed a community of privilege,...silence, puffing his pipe, looking in the fire with half-shut eyes, and thinking of nothing for hours together ; the goede vrouw on the opposite side would... | |
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The fireplaces were of a truly patriarchal magnitude, where the whole family, old and young, master and servant, black and white — nay, even the very cat and dog — enjoyed a community of privilege and had each a right to a corner. 
