 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1903 - 358 Seiten
...the abbey remain longest about them. A kinder and fonder feeling takes place of that cold curiosity or vague admiration with which they gaze on the splendid...through the medium of history, which is continually growing faint and obscure ; but the intercourse between the author and his fellow-men is ever new,... | |
 | D.C. Heath and Company - 1903 - 360 Seiten
...the Abbey remain longest about them. A kinder and fonder feeling takes place of the cold curiosity or vague admiration, with which they gaze on the splendid monuments of the great and heroic. They linger about these as about the tombs of friends and companions; for there is something... | |
 | 1903 - 360 Seiten
...the Abbey remain longest about them. A kinder and fonder feeling takes place of the cold curiosity or vague admiration, with which they gaze on the splendid monuments of the great and heroic. They linger about these as about the tombs of friends and companions ; for there is something... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1906 - 472 Seiten
...the abbey remained longest about them. A kinder and fonder feeling takes place of that cold curiosity or vague admiration with which they gaze on the splendid...through the medium of history, which is continually growing faint and obscure: but the intercourse between the author and his fellow-men is ever new, active,... | |
 | Sandford Arthur Strong - 1905 - 442 Seiten
...linger. Washington Irving says: "A kinder and fonder feeling takes the place of that cold curiosity or vague admiration with which they gaze on the splendid...these as about the tombs of friends and companions." It seems to have been the magnetic dust of Chaucer, the first warbler, that gathered the poets together... | |
 | Henry Charles Shelley - 1906 - 430 Seiten
...visitors always remained longest in the vicinity of Poets' Corner. " They linger about these monuments as about the tombs of friends and companions ; for...indeed there is something of companionship between author and reader. Other men are known to posterity only through the medium of history, which is continually... | |
 | Henry C. Shelley - 1909 - 426 Seiten
...tombs of friends and companions ; N for indeed there is something of companionship between author and reader. Other men are known to posterity only through the medium of history, which is continually growing faint and obscure ; but the intercourse between the author and his fellow-men is ever new,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1907 - 328 Seiten
...the abbey remained longest about them. A kinder and fonder feeling takes place of that cold curiosity or vague admiration with which they gaze on the splendid...monuments of the great and the heroic. They linger about s these as about the tombs of friends and companions ; for indeed there is something of companionship... | |
 | 1907 - 264 Seiten
...the Abbey remain longest about them. A kinder and fonder feeling takes place of the cold curiosity or vague admiration, with which they gaze on the splendid monuments of the great and heroic. They linger about these as about the tombs of friends and companions; for there is something... | |
 | Charles Swain Thomas, Will David Howe - 1908 - 536 Seiten
...the gradual dilapidations of time, which yet has something pleasing in its very decay. — IRVING. 5. They linger about these as about the tombs of friends...of companionship between the author and the reader. — IRVING. 7. He has lived for men more than for himself ; he has sacrificed surrounding enjoyments... | |
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I have always observed that the visitors to the abbey remained longest about them. A kinder and fonder feeling takes place of that cold curiosity or vague admiration with which they gaze on the splendid monuments of the great and the heroic. They linger... 
