 Every reader has his first book ; I mean to [say, one book among all others which in early youth first fascinates his imagination, and at once excites and satisfies the desires of his mind. To me, this first book was the SketchBook of Washington Irving.  Irvingiana: A Memorial of Washington Irving - Página xxxvipor Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1860 - 64 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1874 - 868 páginas
...at once excites and satisfies the desires of his mind. To me this first book was the " Sketch Book" of Washington Irving. I was a schoolboy when it was published, and read each succeeding number with ever increasing wonder and delight ; spell-bound by its pleasant humour, its melancholy tenderness,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1886 - 326 páginas
...and at once excites and satisfies the desires of his mind. To me, this first book was the Sketch-Book of Washington Irving. I was a school-boy when it was published, and read each succeeding number with ever increasing wonder and delight, spell-bound by its pleasant humor, its melancholy tenderness, its... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1886 - 348 páginas
...and at once excites and satisfies the desires of his mind. To me, this first book was the Sketch-Book of Washington Irving. I was a school-boy when it was published, and read each succeeding number with ever increasing wonder and delight, spell-bound by its pleasant humor, its melancholy tenderness, its... | |
 | Samuel Longfellow - 1886 - 472 páginas
...and at once excites and satisfies the desires of his mind. To me, this first book was the SketchBook of Washington Irving. I was a school-boy when it was published, and read each succeeding number with ever increasing wonder and delight, spell-bound by its pleasant humor, its melancholy tenderness, its... | |
 | Samuel Longfellow - 1886 - 480 páginas
...and at once excites and satisfies the desires of his mind. To me, this first book was the SketchBook of Washington Irving. I was a school-boy when it was published, and read each succeeding number with ever increasing wonder and delight, spell-bound by its pleasant humor, its melancholy tenderness, its... | |
 | 1886 - 458 páginas
...and at once excites and satisfies the desires of his mind. To me, this first book was the Sketch Book of Washington Irving. I was a schoolboy when it was published and read each succeeding number with ever increasing wonder and delight, spellbound by its pleasant humour, its melancholy tenderness, its... | |
 | Eric Sutherland Robertson - 1887 - 204 páginas
...at once excites and satisfies the desires of his mind. To me this first book was the ' Sketch Book ' of Washington Irving. I was a schoolboy when it was...ever-increasing wonder and delight, spell-bound by its pleasant humour, its melancholy tenderness, its atmosphere 'of reverie — nay, even by its gray-brown covers,... | |
 | James Grant Wilson, John Fiske - 1888 - 838 páginas
...book was the ' Sketch-Book ' of Washington Irving. I was a school-boy when it was published [in 1819], and read each succeeding number with ever-increasing...melancholy tenderness, its atmosphere of reverie. . . . The charm remains unbroken, and whenever I open the pages of the ' Sketch-Book,' I open also... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1887 - 632 páginas
...Irving. I was a school-boy when it was published, and read each succeeding number with ever increasing wonder and delight, spellbound by its pleasant humor, its melancholy tenderness, its atmosphere olfroverie, nay, even by its gray-bound covers, the shaded letters of its titles, and the fair, clear... | |
 | James Grant Wilson, John Fiske - 1888 - 836 páginas
...book was the ' Sketch-Book ' of Washington Irving. I was a school-boy when it was published [in 1819], and read each succeeding number with ever-increasing...melancholy tenderness, its atmosphere of reverie. . . . The charm remains unbroken, and whenever I open the pages of the ' Sketch-Book.' I open also... | |
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