 | Henry Charles Shelley - Great Britain - 1908 - 450 pages
...observed that visitors to Westminster Abbey remained longest amid the memorials in Poets' Corner. " They linger about these as about the tombs of friends...something of companionship between the author and reader. Other men are known to posterity only through the medium of history, which is continually growing... | |
 | Henry Charles Shelley - Great Britain - 1908 - 456 pages
...tombs of friends and companions ; for indeed there is something of companionship between the author and reader. 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 is ever new, active,... | |
 | Henry Pendexter Emerson, Ida Catherine Bender - English language - 1911 - 404 pages
...of these memorials, I have always observed that the visitors to the abbey remain longest about them. 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 is ever new, active,... | |
 | Evelyn May Albright - Description (Rhetoric) - 1911 - 296 pages
...the abbey remained longest about them. A kinder and fonder feeling takes place of that old 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 - 1911 - 470 pages
...abbey remained longest about them. A kinder and fonder feeling takes place of that cold 20 curiosity or vague admiration with which they gaze on the splendid...between the author and the reader. Other men are known 25 to posterity only through the medium of history, which is continually growing faint and obscure... | |
 | Henry Charles Shelley - British Museum - 1911 - 512 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | Henry Charles Shelley - Museums - 1911 - 478 pages
...remained longest in their vicinity. " A kinder and tender 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... | |
 | 1911 - 474 pages
...that longs after the accomplishment of the dream of unnumbered centuries — the brotherhood of man. 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 is ever new, active... | |
 | Henry Pendexter Emerson, Ida Catherine Bender - English language - 1913 - 408 pages
...of these memorials, I have always observed that the visitors to the abbey remain longest about them. 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 is ever new, active,... | |
 | Francis Whiting Halsey - Europe - 1914 - 252 pages
...on the *From "The Sketch Book." Published by a P. Putnam's Sons. splendid monuments of Hm 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 bis fellow men is ever new, active... | |
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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... 
