| William Jordan Unwin - 1862 - 374 sidor
...the abbey remained longest about them. A kinder and fonder feeling takes place of the 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 there is something... | |
| Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1863 - 614 sidor
...cold curiosity or vague admiration, wifti 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 there is something of companionship between the author and the reader. Well may posterity be grateful... | |
| Washington Irving - 1865 - 518 sidor
...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...through the medium of history, which is continually growing faint and obscure : but the intercourse between the author and his fellowmen is ever new, active,... | |
| Washington Irving - 1868 - 570 sidor
...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...something of companionship between the author and I the reader. Other men are known to posterity! only through the medium of history, which is continually... | |
| John Ramsay - 1871 - 414 sidor
...fonder feeling takes place of that cold curiosity and vague admiration with which they gaze on the monuments of the great and the heroic. They linger...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,... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 452 sidor
...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 monuments of the great and tho heroic. They linger about these as about the tombs of friends and companions ; for indeed there... | |
| John Small - 1876 - 646 sidor
...Abbey remain 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...these as about the tombs of friends and companions.' Again, on leaving the building, ' I endeavoured to form some arrangements in my mind of the objects... | |
| Mother Angela Gillespie - 1877 - 346 sidor
...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. 6. From Poet's Corner I continued my stroll toward that part of the Abbey which contains the sepulchres... | |
| Mother Angela Gillespie - 1877 - 350 sidor
...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. 6. From Poet's Corner I continued my stroll toward that part of the Abbey which contains the sepulchres... | |
| Washington Irving, Homer Baxter Sprague - 1878 - 206 sidor
...and fonder feeling takes place of that cold curiosity or vague admiration with which they gaze on a5 the splendid monuments of the great and the heroic....posterity only through the medium of history, which is contin- i00 ually growing faint and obscure ; but the intercourse between the author and his fellow-men... | |
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