 | 1829 - 1008 sider
...; it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies in adventure ; she embarks her whole soul in the traffic of affection...case is hopeless, for it is a bankruptcy of the heart ! " Then with respect to her beauty, I require not to search for quotations ; for there I could go... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1822 - 424 sider
...empire; it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure ; she embarks her whole soul in the traffic of affection;...prospects of felicity; but he is an active being — he may dissipate his thoughts in the whirl of varied occupation, or may plunge into the tide of pleasure... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1822 - 402 sider
...empire; it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure; she embarks her whole soul in the traffic of affection;...prospects of felicity; but he is an active being — he may dissipate his thoughts in the whirl of varied occupation, or may plunge into the tide of pleasure... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1823 - 392 sider
...is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure ; shn embarks her whole soul in the traffic of affection;...prospects of felicity; but he is an active being — he may dissipate his thoughts in the whirl of varied occupation, or may plunge into the tide of pleasure... | |
 | Tobias Merton (pseud) - 1824 - 476 sider
...; it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure ; she embarks her whole soul in the traffic of affection...prospects of felicity ; but he is an active being — he may dissipate his thoughts in the whirl of varied occupation, or may plunge into the tide of pleasure... | |
 | Cabinet - 1824 - 440 sider
...; it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure ; she embarks her whole soul in the traffic of affection...prospects of felicity ; but he is an active being — he may dissipate his thoughts in the whirl of varied occupation, or may plunge into the tide of pleasure... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 sider
...empire; it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure ; she embarks her whole soul in the traffic of affection;...prospects of felicity; but he is an active being — he may dissipate his thoughts in the whirl of varied occupation, or may plunge into the tide of pleasure... | |
 | William Oxberry - 1824 - 382 sider
...avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure ; she embarks herowusonl in the traffic of affection ; and if shipwrecked,...tenderness — it blasts some prospects of felicity ; bnt he is an active being — he can dissipate his thoughts in the whirl of varied occupation, or... | |
 | 1834 - 638 sider
...her avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventures ; she emharks her whole soul in the traffic of affection ; and, if shipwrecked her case is hopeless, for it is a hankruptcy of the heart. To a man, the disappointment of love may occosion some hitter pangs. It wounds... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1829 - 522 sider
...sends forth her sympathies on adventure ; she embarks her whole soul in the traffic of affection 5 and if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless — for it-...prospects of felicity ; but he is an active being; he may dissipate his thoughts in the whirl of varied occupation, or may plunge into the tide of pleasure... | |
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But a woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world; it is there her ambition strives for empire; it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures; she sends forth her sympathies on adventure; she embarks her whole soul in... 
