 | Washington Irving - 1882
...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...friends and companions ; for indeed there is something ot' companionship between the author and the reader. Other men are known to posterity only through... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882
...ever Love, as poets sing, delights to visit a cottage, it must be the cottage of an English peasant.'4 'Other men are known to posterity only through the medium of history, which is continually growing faint and obscure: but the intercourse between the author and his fellow men in ever new, active,... | |
 | Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883
...cold curiosity of vague admiration with which they gaze upon the splendid monuments of the great and heroic. They linger about these as about the tombs...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,... | |
 | 1884
...simple memorials in Poets' Corner. A kinder and fonder feeling takes the place of that cold curiosity or vague admiration with which they gaze on the splendid...these as about the tombs of friends and companions.* The great Chaucer died (October 25, liOO) in a house standing on what is now a part of the Abbey ;... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1884
...visitors remained longest about them. 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; for indeed there is something... | |
 | William Swinton - 1886 - 638 páginas
...abbey remained longest ahout them. A kinder and fonder feeling takes the place of that cold curiosity or vague admiration with which they gaze on the splendid...these as about the tombs of friends and companions *iA for indeed there is something of companionship between the 84. Poeti' Coraer. Poets' Corner occupies... | |
 | William Swinton - 1888 - 638 páginas
...abbey remained longest about them. A kinder and fonder feeling takes the place of that cold curiosity or vague admiration with which they gaze on the splendid...indeed there is something of companionship between the 84. Poets' Corner. Poets' Corner occupies nearly a half of the south transept. It is so called from... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1891 - 246 páginas
...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 fellow-men is ever new, active,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1891 - 107 páginas
...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...heroic. They linger about these as about the tombs of frie1ids and companions; for indeed there is something of companionship between the author and the... | |
 | JOHN CHAMBERLAIN - 1890
...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... | |
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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... 
