Works of Washington Irving, Volume 26G.P. Putnam, 1864 |
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Page 261 - Not poppy, nor mandragora, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep Which thou ow'dst yesterday.
Page 404 - Twas Echo from her sister Silence flew ; For quick the hunter's horn resounded to the sky ! In shade affrighted Silence melts away ; Not so her sister : — hark ! for onward still With far-heard step she takes her listening way, Bounding from rock to rock, and hill to hill ! Ah, mark the merry maid in mockful play With thousand mimic tones the laughing forest fill.
Page 44 - With a tale forsooth he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.
Page 55 - THERE are few writers for whom the reader feels such personal kindness as for Oliver G-oldsmith, for few have so eminently possessed the magic gift of identifying themselves with their writings.
Page 296 - The benevolence of your heart, my dear Marquis, is so conspicuous upon all occasions that I never wonder at any fresh proofs of it ; but your late purchase of an estate in the Colony of Cayenne, with a view of emancipating the slaves on it, is a generous and noble proof of your humanity. Would to God a like spirit might diffuse itself generally into the minds of the people of this country ! But I despair of seeing it.
Page 232 - We expected to have a quick trip; but alas! the 'best laid schemes of mice and men gang aft agley', and so it was with us.
Page 233 - The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft agley And leave us nought but grief and pain For promised joy.
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Page 356 - He has written. He has confessed to my mother, as to a true and dear friend, his love for E , and his conviction of its utter hopelessness. He feels himself unable to combat it. He thinks he must try, by absence, to bring more peace to his mind. Yet he cannot bear to give up our friendship, — an intercourse become so dear to him, and so necessary to his daily happiness. Poor Irving ! " It is well for our peace of mind that we do not know what is going down concerning us in "journals.
Page 404 - ECHO AND SILENCE. In eddying course when leaves began to fly, And Autumn in her lap the store to strew, As mid wild scenes I chanced the Muse to woo Through glens untrod and woods that frowned on high, Two sleeping nymphs with wonder mute I spy ; And, lo, she's gone !—In robe of...