 | 1821 - 438 pages
...the Abbey remain longest about them. A kinder and fonder feeling takes place of that cold cariosity 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,... | |
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1820 - 438 pages
...visitors to the abbey remain longest about them. A kinder and fonder feeling takes place of that cold curiosity or vague admiration with which they gaze...growing faint and obscure ; but the intercourse between the author and his fellow-men is ever new, active and immediate. He has lived for them more than for... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1822 - 424 pages
...visitors to the abbey remain longest about them. A kinder and fonder feeling takes place of that cold curiosity or vague admiration with which they gaze...heroic. They linger about these as about the tombs oi' friends and companions ; for indeed there is something of companionship between the author and... | |
 | Washington Irving - American literature - 1821 - 354 pages
...visitors to the abbey remain longest about them. A kinder and fonder feeling takes place of that cold curiosity or vague admiration with which they gaze...growing faint and obscure : but the intercourse between the author and his fellow-men is ever new, active and immediate. He has lived for them more than for... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
...visitors to the abbey remain longest about them. A kinder and fonder feeling takes place of that cold curiosity or vague admiration with which they gaze...growing faint and obscure: but the intercourse between the author and his fellow-men is ever new, active and immediate. He has lived for them more than for... | |
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1834 - 320 pages
...visiters to the abbey remain longest about them. A kinder and fonder feeling takes place of that cold curiosity or vague admiration with which they gaze...posterity only through the medium of history, which is continu" ally growing faint and obscure : but the intercourse between the author and his fellow-men... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1836 - 250 pages
...admiration with which they gaze on the splen did monuments of the great and the heroic. They lin ger about these as about the tombs of friends and companions...growing faint and obscure ; but the intercourse between the author and his fellow men is ever new, active, and immediate. He has lived for them more than for... | |
 | 1839 - 256 pages
...admiration with which they gaze on the splen did monuments of the great and the heroic. They lin ger about these as about the tombs of friends and companions...growing faint and obscure ; but the intercourse between the author and his fellow men is ever new, active, and immediate. He has lived for them more than for... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1843 - 390 pages
...visiters to the abbey remain longest about them. A kinder and fonder feeling takes place of that cold curiosity or vague admiration with which they gaze...growing faint and obscure: but the intercourse between the author and his fellow-men is ever new, active , and immediate. He has lived for them more than... | |
 | Washington Irving - Americans - 1843 - 458 pages
...visitors to the abbey remain longest about them. A kinder and fonder feeling takes place of that cold curiosity or vague admiration with which they gaze...monuments of the great and the heroic. They linger about there as about the tombs of friends and companions; for indeed there is something of companionship... | |
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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... 
