The Life and Letters of Washington Irving, Volume 24G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1869 |
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Passagens conhecidas
Página 138 - sworn brother to a leash of drawers, and can drink with any tinker in his own language during my life" — faugh ! I shall not be able to bear the smell of small beer or tobacco for a month to come ! .... Truly this saving one's country is a nauseous piece of business, and if patriotism is such a dirty
Página 166 - The lips repose our love has kiss'd : — But Where's their memory's mansion ? Is't Yon churchyard's bowers ? No ! in ourselves their souls exist, A part of ours. " A kiss can consecrate the ground Where mated hearts are mutual bound ; The spot where love's first links were wound, That ne'er are riven, Is hallowed down to earth's profound, And up to heaven.
Página 337 - The parcel containing my work," says the preface, " went by coach to Scott's address in Edinburgh ; the letter went by mail to his residence in the country. By the very first post I received a reply." This reply, of which the preface contains some extracts, I transcribe in full
Página 199 - But sair, I doubt some happier swain Has gained my Jeanie's favor, If sae may every bliss be hers, Tho' I can never have her. " But gang she east, or gang she west, 'Twixt Nith and Tweed all over, While men have eyes, or ears, or taste, She'll always find a lover." It was to the subject of this poetic
Página 51 - through the woods, and the inn appears a palace. For my part, I endeavor to take things as they come, with cheerfulness, and when I cannot get a dinner to suit my taste, I endeavor to get a taste to suit my dinner. And he adds : — There is nothing I dread more than to be taken
Página 351 - Murray became my publisher ; conducting himself in all his dealings with that fair, open, and liberal spirit, which had obtained for him the wellmerited appellation of the Prince of Booksellers. The following letter to Brevoort will now be in place : — LONDON, May
Página 336 - of the matter, had the question of republication in Great Britain rested entirely with him : but he apprehended the appearance of a spurious edition. I find no trace in his letters of discouragement under the disheartening decision, for only four days later he writes to his brother Ebenezer :
Página 35 - and the stories of these Sinbads of the wilderness made the life of a trapper and fur trader perfect romance to me." Here he made the acquaintance of his life-long friend, Henry Brevoort, a native and resident of New York, but then on a visit of business or pleasure to Montreal.
Página 370 - I can never get people to understand that poetry is the expression of excited passion, and that there is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever.
Página 267 - in it even to my wishes I know not what may be its fate. But I leave the future to Providence. Perhaps I may send it to America. Agreeably to your request I send, by the coach, the design for Knickerbocker. The subject is Wouter Van Twiller's decision in the case of