The Life and Letters of Washington Irving, Volume 1G.P. Putnam, 1864 |
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The Life and Letters of Washington Irving: Y His Nephew, Pierre M ..., Volume 1 Pierre Munroe Irving Visualização integral - 1862 |
The Life and Letters of Washington Irving: Y His Nephew, Pierre M ..., Volume 1 Pierre Munroe Irving Visualização integral - 1862 |
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Página 332 - On Tuesday last A falcon towering in her pride of place Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed.
Página 33 - This rambling propensity strengthened with my years. Books of voyages and travels became my passion, and in devouring their contents, I neglected the regular exercises of the school. How wistfully would I wander about the...
Página 187 - What makes me the more outrageous is, that I got fairly drawn into the vortex, and before the third day was expired, I was as deep in mud and politics as ever a moderate gentleman would wish to be; and I drank beer with the multitude; and I talked handbill-fashion with the demagogues, and I shook hands with the mob — whom my heart abhorreth.
Página 224 - Her mind seemed to unfold itself leaf by leaf, and every time to discover new sweetness. Nobody knew her so well as I, for she was generally timid and silent ; but I in a manner studied her excellence. Never did I meet with more intuitive rectitude of mind, more native delicacy, more exquisite propriety in word, thought, and action, than in this young creature. I am not exaggerating ; what I say was acknowledged by all that knew her. Her brilliant little sister used to say that people began by admiring...
Página 234 - Left his lodgings, some time since, and has not since been heard of, a small elderly gentleman, dressed in an old black coat and cocked hat, by the name of Knickerbocker.
Página 132 - I believe it owed its main force to the lovely evening ramble in which I first conceived it, and to the romantic friendship I had formed with Allston. Whenever it recurred to mind, it was always connected with beautiful Italian scenery, palaces, and statues, and fountains, and terraced gardens, and Allston as the companion of my studio. I promised myself a world of enjoyment in his society, and in the society of several artists with whom he had made me acquainted, and pictured forth a scheme of life,...
Página 455 - Review, but revises, modifies, prunes, and prepares whatever is offered ; and is very apt to extract the sting from articles that are rather virulent.
Página 414 - I have but one thing to add. I have now given you the leading motive of my actions — it may be a weak one, but it has full possession of me, and therefore the attainment of it is necessary to my comfort. I now wish to be left for a little while entirely to the bent of my own inclination, and not agitated by new plans for subsistence, or by entreaties to come home. My spirits are very unequal, and my mind depends upon them ; and I am easily thrown into such a state of perplexity and such depression...
Página 381 - I cannot tell you how truly I have enjoyed the hours I have passed here. They fly by too quick, yet each is loaded with story, incident, or song; and when I consider the world of ideas, images, and impressions that have been crowded upon my mind since I have been here, it seems incredible that I should only have been two days at Abbotsford.
Página 231 - If such beings do ever retain in their blessed spheres the attachments which they felt on earth; if they take an interest in the poor concerns of transient mortality, and are permitted to hold communion with those whom they have loved on earth, I feel as if now, at this deep hour of night...