 | Maine Historical Society - Maine - 1891 - 508 pages
...abbey are most likely to linger. " A kinder and fonder feeling takes the place of that 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." Many a name commemorated... | |
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1892 - 160 pages
...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 fellowmen is ever new, active,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1892 - 422 pages
...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 i'aint and obscure : but the intercourse between the author and his fellow-men is ever new,... | |
 | Washington Irving - Short stories - 1894 - 234 pages
...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,... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - Westminster (London, England) - 1894 - 132 pages
...memorials in Poet's Corner. A kinder and fonder feeling takes the place of that cold curiosity or vngue admiration with which they gaze on the splendid monuments...these as about the tombs of friends and companions.' — Washington lniing, ' The Shetch-Booh.* 1 Macaulay. 2 We look in vain for any monuments to Sir Philip... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - London (England) - 1894 - 388 pages
...fonder feeling takes the place of that cold curiosity or vague admiration with which they gaze on ihe splendid monuments of the great and the heroic. They...these as about the tombs of friends and companions.' — Washington Irving, ' The Sketch-Boon* 1 Macaulay. 2 We look in vain for any monuments to Sir Philip... | |
 | Washington Irving - Americans - 1848 - 482 pages
...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,... | |
 | Charles Dickens - English literature - 1887 - 588 pages
...Poet's Corner, says : " I have always observed that the visitors to the Abbey remain longest about them. They linger about these as about the tombs of friends...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,... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - London (England) - 1896 - 402 pages
...fonder feeling takes the place of that cold curiosity or vague admiration with which they gaze on ihe splendid monuments of the great and the heroic. They...these as about the tombs of friends and companions.' — Washington Irving, * The Sketch-Book? Beginning to the right from the entrance, we find the monuments... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1899 - 220 pages
...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 fellowmen is ever new, active... | |
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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... 
