 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1866 - 818 pages
...of knights and castles passed before me. They were the voices of old burghers I heard in the street. I was an involuntary spectator and auditor of whatever...closer view of my native town. I was fairly inside of it I never had seen its institutions before. I began to comprehend what its inhabitants were about.... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1866 - 314 pages
...turned into a Rhine stream, and visions of knights and castles passed before me. They were the voices of old burghers that I heard in the streets. I was an...whatever was done and said in the kitchen of the adjacent village-inn, — a wholly new and rare experience to me. It was a closer view of my native town. I... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1879 - 306 pages
...turned into a Rhine stream, and visions of knights and castles passed before me. They were the voices of old burghers that I heard in the streets. I was an...involuntary spectator and auditor of whatever was done aud said in the kitchen of the adjacent village-inn, — a wholly new and rare experience to me. It... | |
 | Literary and Historical Society of Quebec - 1881 - 774 pages
...turned into a Rhine stream, and visions of knights and castles passed before me. They were the voices of old burghers that I heard in the streets. I was an...closer view of my native town. I was fairly inside of it. I never had seen its institutions before. * * * In the morning our breakfasts were put through... | |
 | George Stewart - 1882 - 44 pages
...turned into a Rhine stream, and visions of knights and castles passed before me. They were the voices of old burghers that I heard in the streets. I was an...closer view of my native town. I was fairly inside of it. I never had seen its institutions before. * * * In the morning our breakfasts were put through... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1890 - 158 pages
...turned into a Rhine stream, and visions of knights and castles passed before me. They were the voices of old burghers that I heard in the streets. I was an...whatever was done and said in the kitchen of the adjacent village-inn, — a wholly new and rare experience to me. It was a closer view of my native town. I... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 454 pages
...turned into a Rhine stream, and visions of knights and castles passed before me. They were the voices of old burghers that I heard in the streets. I was an...whatever was done and said in the kitchen of the adjacent village-inn, — a wholly new and rare experience to me. It was a closer view of my native town. I... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 462 pages
...turned into a Khine stream, and visions of knights and castles passed before me. They were the voices of old burghers that I heard in the streets. I was an...whatever was done and said in the kitchen of the adjacent village-inn, — a wholly new and rare experience to me. It was a closer view of my native town. I... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 452 pages
...turned into a Rhine stream, and visions of knights and castles passed before me. They were the voices of old burghers that I heard in the streets. I was an...whatever was done and said in the kitchen of the adjacent village-inn, — a wholly new and rare experience to me. It was a closer view of my native town. I... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1898 - 462 pages
...turned into a Rhine stream, and visions of knights and castles passed before me. They were the voices of old burghers that I heard in the streets. I was an...whatever was done and said in the kitchen of the adjacent village-inn, — a wholly new and rare experience to me. It was a closer view of my native town. I... | |
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... before, nor the evening sounds of the village; for we slept with the windows open, which were inside the grating. It was to see my native village in the light of the Middle Ages, and our Concord was turned into a Rhine stream, and visions of knights... 
