...simple memorials in Poets' Corner. A kinder and fonder feeling takes the place of that cold curiosity or vague admiration with which they gaze on the splendid...these as about the tombs of friends and companions." — Washington Irving. " In the poetical quarter I found there were poets who had no monuments, and...

...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...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,...

...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...

...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...

...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,...

...that longs after the accomplishment of the dream of unnumbered centuries — the brotherhood of man. 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 fellow-men is ever new, active...