Works of Washington Irving: Life and lettersJ. B. Lippincott & Company, 1870 |
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Página xxi - 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 125 - 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 213 - Thy tower, proud Bamborough, marked they there, King Ida's castle, huge and square, From its tall rock look grimly down, And on the swelling ocean frown; Then from the coast they bore away, And reached the Holy Island's bay.
Página 195 - On Tuesday last A falcon towering in her pride of place Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed.
Página 223 - When you see Tom Campbell, tell him, with my best love, that I have to thank him for making me known to Mr. "Washington Irving, who is one of the best and pleasantest acquaintances I have made this many a day.
Página 5 - ... Kaatskill Mountains had the most witching effect on my boyish imagination. Never shall I forget the effect upon me of the first view of them predominating over a wide extent of country, part wild, woody, and rugged ; part softened away into all the graces of cultivation. As we slowly floated along, I lay on the deck and watched them through a long summer's day ; undergoing a thousand mutations under the magical effects of atmosphere ; sometimes seeming to approach ; at other times to recede ;...
Página 286 - ... breeches, and answering in fierce monosyllables, instead of a man of this world. 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 60 - I do not think I have ever been more completely captivated on a first acquaintance. He was of a light and graceful form, with large blue eyes, and black, silken hair, waving and curling round a pale expressive countenance. Everything about him bespoke the man of intellect and refinement. His conversation was copious, animated, and highly graphic, warmed by a genial sensibility and benevolence, and enlivened at times by a chaste and gentle humor.
Página 133 - I beg you to accept my best -thanks for the uncommon degree of entertainment which I have received from the most excellently jocose history of New York. I am sensible, that as a stranger to American parties and politics, I must lose much of the concealed satire of the piece...
Página 315 - You laugh/' said he, with that air of whimsical significance so natural to him, "but it is true. I have kept that to myself hitherto, but that man has found me out. He has detected the moral of the Stout Gentleman.