 | Elbert Hubbard - 1923 - 284 sivua
...jest, the laugh, the most minute and trivial circumstance connected with those happy meetings, crowd upon our mind at each recurrence of the season, as...win us back to the delusions of our childish days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside... | |
 | Pío Baroja - 1926 - 280 sivua
...the most minute and trivial circumstances connected with those happy meetings crowd upon our minds at each recurrence of the season, as if the last assemblage had been but yesterday! — DICKENS, Pickwick Papers. NEXT day it was snowing. The Mayorazgo and Marina followed the road which... | |
 | George Jean Nathan, Henry Louis Mencken - 1901 - 662 sivua
...have ceased to beat, hands that have grown cold, merry voices and smiling faces, and which conclude: " Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the sailor and the traveler, thousands... | |
 | James Russell Kincaid - 1995 - 288 sivua
...offer one quotation, not to support the point — since it needs no support — but to illustrate it: "Happy, happy Christmas that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days!" says Mr. Pickwick. We win our way back to a world not at all delusory, a world of perpetual desire... | |
 | Lois Kaufman - 1998 - 68 sivua
...the laugh, the most minute and trivial circumstance connected '46 * with those happy meetings, crowd upon our mind at each recurrence of the season, as...win us back to the delusions of our childish days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport (he traveler back to his own fireside... | |
 | 1998 - 164 sivua
...pudding and Turkey with dressing, ^ • Choirs singing CarolsAll have his blessing. Ralph W. Seager appy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to... | |
 | Fred Guida - 2000 - 290 sivua
...mind some pleasant associations are not awakened — by the recurrence of Christmas."29 And again: "Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days."30 And yet again: And I do come home at Christmas. We all do, or we all should. We all come home,... | |
 | Karal Ann Marling - 2009 - 470 sivua
...dispersed and scattered far and wide, in the restless struggles of life, are then reunited," he declares. "Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of 3; our childish days, that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his 2 V) youth, that can transport... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 2003 - 244 sivua
...jest, the laugh, the most minute and trivial circumstances connected with those happy meetings, crowd upon our mind at each recurrence of the season, as...back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; and transport the sailor and the traveller thousands... | |
 | Julian Wolfreys - 2006 - 134 sivua
...and trivial circumstance connected with those happy meetings, crowd upon our mind at each re currence of the season, as if the last assemblage had been but yesterday. (75/'359; emphasis added) The initial shift to present tense in the opening clause of the sentence... | |
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Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; and transport the sailor and the traveller thousands of miles away, back to his own fireside and his quiet home! 
