 | 1821 - 438 pages
...cold cariosity or vague admiration with which they gaze on the splendid monuments of the great and the 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,... | |
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1820 - 438 pages
...cold curiosity or vague admiration with which they gaze on the splendid monuments of the great and the heroic. They linger about these as about the tombs...history, which is continually growing faint and obscure ; but the intercourse between the author and his fellow-men is ever new, active and immediate. He has... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1822 - 424 pages
...the splendid monuments of the great and the heroic. They linger about these as about the tombs oi' friends and companions ; for indeed there is something...history, which is continually growing faint and obscure : but the intercourse between the author and his fellow-men is ever new, active and immediate. He has... | |
 | Washington Irving - American literature - 1821 - 354 pages
...cold curiosity or vague admiration with which they gaze on the splendid monuments of the great and the heroic. They linger about these as about the tombs...history, which is continually growing faint and obscure : but the intercourse between the author and his fellow-men is ever new, active and immediate. He has... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
...cold curiosity or vague admiration with which they gaze on the splendid monuments of the great and the heroic. They linger about these as about the tombs...history, which is continually growing faint and obscure: but the intercourse between the author and his fellow-men is ever new, active and immediate. He has... | |
 | British literature - 1834 - 532 pages
...coM curiosity or vague admiration with which they gaze on the splendid monuments of the great and the heroic. They linger about these as about the tombs...history, which is continually growing faint and obscure ; but the intercourse between (he author and his fellow-men is ever new, active, and immediate : he... | |
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1834 - 320 pages
...cold curiosity or vague admiration with which they gaze on the splendid monuments of the great and the heroic. They linger about these as about the tombs...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...history, which is continually growing faint and obscure ; but the intercourse between the author and his fellow men is ever new, active, and immediate. He... | |
 | 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...history, which is continually growing faint and obscure ; but the intercourse between the author and his fellow men is ever new, active, and immediate. He... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1843 - 390 pages
...cold curiosity or vague admiration with which they gaze on the splendid monuments of the great and the heroic. They linger about these as about the tombs...history, which is continually growing faint and obscure: but the intercourse between the author and his fellow-men is ever new, active , and immediate. He has... | |
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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 fellowmen is ever new, active and immediate. 
