 | Washington Irving - Fiction - 1983 - 1198 pages
...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... | |
 | Charles C. Calhoun - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 358 pages
...1819—and had paused in Poets' Corner. He noted that visitors to the Abbey lingered longest there, "as about the tombs of friends and companions; for...companionship between the author and the reader." At the time of Longfellow's death, this intimacy between the poet and his admirers remained an unmistakable... | |
 | Francis Halsey - Travel - 2006 - 213 pages
...on the *Prom "The Sfcetoh Book." Published by QP Putnam's Sons. 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,... | |
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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... 
