 | Charles Swain Thomas, Will David Howe - 1908 - 536 pages
...dilapidations of time, which yet has something pleasing in its very decay. — IRVING. 5. They linger about these as about the tombs of friends and companions...of companionship between the author and the reader. — IRVING. 7. He has lived for men more than for himself ; he has sacrificed surrounding enjoyments... | |
 | Henry Charles Shelley - 1908 - 450 pages
...that visitors to Westminster Abbey remained longest amid the memorials in Poets' Corner. " They linger about these as about the tombs of friends and companions...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 Pendexter Emerson, Ida Catherine Bender - 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...immediate. He has lived for them more than for himself. Well may the world cherish his renown; for it has been purchased, not by deeds of violence and blood,... | |
 | Henry Charles Shelley - 1911 - 512 pages
...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;...obscure; but the intercourse between the author and his fellow-men is ever new, active, and immediate." Two or three of the manuscripts which cannot fail to... | |
 | Evelyn May Albright - 1911 - 296 pages
...admiration with which they gaze on the splendid monuments of the great and the heroic. They linger about these as about the tombs of friends and companions,...obscure; but the intercourse between the author and his fellow-men is ever new, active, and immediate. He has lived for them more than for himself; he has... | |
 | Henry Charles Shelley - 1911 - 478 pages
...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;...history, which is continually growing faint and obscure -r but the intercourse between the author and his fellow-men is ever new, ^m; active, and immediate.... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1911 - 470 pages
...admiration with which they gaze on the splendid monuments of the great and the heroic. They linger about these as about the tombs of friends and companions;...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... | |
 | 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...obscure; but the intercourse between the author and his fellow-men is ever new, active and immediate. He has lived for them more than for himself; he has sacrificed... | |
 | Helen Thomas (High school instructor) - 1912 - 140 pages
...admiration with which they gaze on the splendid monuments of the great and the heroic. They linger about these as about the tombs of friends and companions;...obscure; but the intercourse between the author and his fellow-men is ever new active, and immediate. He has lived for them more than for himself ; he has... | |
 | Henry Pendexter Emerson, Ida Catherine Bender - 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...immediate. He has lived for them more than for himself. Well may the world cherish his renown ; for it has been purchased, not by deeds of violence and blood,... | |
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They linger about these as about the tombs of friends and companions ; for indeed there is something of companionship between the author and the reader. Other men are known to posterity only through the medium of history, which is continually growing... 
