 | William Henry Tappey Squires - Dwellings - 1928 - 428 pages
...the history of times gone by, and every mouldering stone was a chronicle. I longed to wander over the scenes of renowned achievement — to tread, as it...from the commonplace realities of the present, and to lose myself among the shadowy grandeurs of the past. WASHINGTON IRVING. The distinguished author... | |
 | Leary - Biography & Autobiography - 50 pages
...the history of times gone by, and every mouldering stone was a chronicle. I longed to wander over the scenes of renowned achievement — to tread, as it...the commonplace realities of the present, and lose myself among the shadowy grandeurs of the past." Irving meant what Cooper, Hawthorne, Henry James,... | |
 | Washington Irving - Fiction - 1983 - 1198 pages
...history of times gone by, and ever)' mouldering stone was a chronicle. I longed to wander over the scenes of renowned achievement — to tread as it...the commonplace realities of the present, and lose myself among the shadowy grandeurs of the past. I had, beside all this, an earnest desire to see the... | |
 | Peter J. Conn - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 624 pages
...imaginative opportunities represented by Europe's romantically encrusted past: "I longed to wander over the scenes of renowned achievement, - to tread, as it...the commonplace realities of the present, and lose myself among the shadowy grandeurs of the past." Only a handful of Geoffrey Crayon's sketches deal... | |
 | A. Robert Lee, W. M. Verhoeven - American literature - 1996 - 376 pages
...over the scenes of renowned achievement — to tread as it were in the footsteps of antiquity — ... to escape in short, from the commonplace realities of the present, and lose myself among the shadowy grandeurs of the past.4: 40. The Sketch Book, 2 10- 11. 41 . Journals and... | |
 | Gregg Camfield - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 255 pages
...taken him into the Europe of "storied and poetical association" where he "longed to wander over the scenes of renowned achievement — to tread, as it...the commonplace realities of the present and lose myself among the shadowy grandeurs of the past" (14). His meditations, then, which could be educational... | |
 | Michael P. Branch, Scott Slovic - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 390 pages
...the history of times gone by, and every mouldering stone was a chronicle. I longed to wander over the scenes of renowned achievement — to tread, as it were, in the footsteps of antiquity" (54). In place of European ruins, scenes of cultural spectacle, America offered natural spectacles.... | |
 | Thomas E. Rinaldi, Rob Yasinsac - Architecture - 2006 - 380 pages
...history of the times gone by, and every mouldering stone was a chronicle. I longed to wander over the scenes of renowned achievement — to tread, as it...the commonplace realities of the present, and lose myself among the shadowy grandeurs of the past."5 Back on the Hudson, the preoccupation with ruins... | |
 | 1820 - 804 pages
...history of times gone by ; and every mouldering stone was a chronicle. I longed to wander over the scenes of renowned achievement — to tread, as it...the common-place realities of the present, and lose myself among the shadowy grandeurs of the past." Then comes " The Voyage," which affords him time and... | |
 | 1820 - 782 pages
...history of times gone by ; and every mouldering stone was a chronicle. I longed to wander over the scenes of renowned achievement — to tread, as it...the common-place realities of the present, and lose myself among the shadowy grandeurs of the past." Then comes " The Voyage," which affords him time and... | |
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My native country was full of youthful promise ; Europe was rich in the accumulated treasures of age. Her very ruins told the history of times gone by, and every mouldering stone was a chronicle. I longed to wander over the scenes of renowned achievement... 
