 Every reader has his first book ; I mean to say, one book among all others which in early youth first fascinates his imagination, and at once excites and satisfies the desires of his mind.  The Scottish Review - Seite 1051886Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Sarah Knowles Bolton - 1887 - 514 Seiten
...reader," he said years afterward, "has his first book; I mean to say, one book among all others which first fascinates his imagination, and at once excites...first book was the Sketch Book of Washington Irving. . . . How many delightful books the same author has given us. . . . Yet still the charm of the Sketch... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1887 - 632 Seiten
...: " Every reader has his first book : I mean to say, one book among all which in early youth flrst fascinates his imagination, and at once excites and satisfies the desires of his mind. To me, this flrst book was the Sketch-Book of Washington Irving. I was a school-boy when it was published, and... | |
 | James Grant Wilson, John Fiske - 1888 - 836 Seiten
...by what he said in later life in speaking of Irving: " Every boy has his first book ; I mean to say, one book among all others which in early youth first...desires of his mind. To me this first book was the ' Sketch-Book ' of Washington Irving. I was a school-boy when it was published [in 1819], and read... | |
 | William Shepard Walsh, Henry Collins Walsh, William H. Garrison, Samuel R. Harris - 1890 - 346 Seiten
...be found ? 25. " Every reader," an American author has said, " has his first book ; I mean to say, one book among all others which in early youth first fascinates his imagination, and at once excites andsatisfies the desires of his mind. To me this first book was the " Sketch Book " of Washington Irving.... | |
 | 1890 - 720 Seiten
...found ? 25. — " Every reader," an American author has said, " has his first book; I mean to say, one book among all others which in early youth first...book was the ' Sketch Book ' of Washington Irving." Who is the writer, and where is this preference recorded ? 26. — " The struggle for fame, as such,... | |
 | George Stewart - 1892 - 184 Seiten
...his mind. It was of the Sketch Hook that he wrote ' Every reader has his first book—I mean to say, one book among all others which in early youth first...of his mind. To me, this first book was the Sketch Hook of Washington Irving. I was a school-boy when it was published and read each succeeding number... | |
 | 1907 - 590 Seiten
...:rn BO-^II'^'ff^l" il'l^l^f^^lj^i:' ^|¥j'§;|j^; it was published," he wrote forty years afterward, "and read each succeeding number with ever increasing wonder and delight, spell-bound by its pleasant humor, its melancholy tenderness, its atmosphere of re very, — even by its gray-brown covers. the... | |
 | 1898 - 122 Seiten
...what he said in later life in speaking of Irving : " Every boy has his first book ; I mean to say, one book among all others which in early youth first...desires of his mind. To me this first book was the ' Sketch-Book ' of Washington Irving. I was a schoolboy when it was published (in 1819), and read each... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1896 - 416 Seiten
...L'ENVOV 365 APPENDIX .368 NOTES .372 APPRECIATIONS. " EVERY reader has his first book. I mean to say, one book among all others, which in early youth first...desires of his mind. To me this first book was the fikctvh-llvok of Washington Irving. I was a school-boy when it was published, and read each succeeding... | |
 | Ella Reeve Ware - 1899 - 244 Seiten
...brother quotes it in his story of the poet's life: "Every reader has his first book. I mean to say, one book among all others which in early youth first...succeeding number with ever increasing wonder and delight. "How many delightful books the same author has given us. * * * * * Yet, still the charm of the Sketch... | |
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