 | 1821 - 438 pages
...of the present, to think of the haracters and anecdetes that gave interest o the past ; and each age is a volume thrown aside to be speedily forgotten....The idol of to-day pushes the hero of yesterday out uf our recollection ; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of to-morrow. " Our fathers,"... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1830 - 346 pages
...the present to think of the characters and anecdotes that gave interest to the past ; and each age is a volume thrown aside to be speedily forgotten....turn, be supplanted by his successor of to-morrow. MASTER HENRY HUDSON. IN the ever memorable year of our Lord, 1609, on a Saturday morning, the five... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1835 - 284 pages
...the present, to think of the characters and aneedotes that gave interest to the past ; and each age is a volume thrown aside to be speedily forgotten....turn, be supplanted by his successor of to-morrow. MASTER HENRY HUDSON. IN the ever memorable year of our Lord, 1609, on A Saturday morning, the five... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1835 - 196 pages
...present , to think of. the characters and anecdotes that gave interest to the. past ; and each age is a volume thrown aside to be speedily forgotten....recollection ; and will , in turn , be supplanted by his snccessor of to-morrow. « Our fathers ," says Sir Thomas Brown , » find their graves in our short... | |
 | Fashion - 378 pages
...Sketch-book," when contemplating the mausoleums of departed greatness in Westminster Abbey : — " The idol of to-day pushes the hero of yesterday out...our recollection, and will In turn be supplanted by Ms successor of to-morrow." zz THE FLOWER OF THE TWEED. (BALLAD.) Ah ! when shall I visit the old willow... | |
 | Timothy Stone Pinneo - Readers - 1847 - 502 pages
...of the present to think of the character and anecdotes that gave interest to the past ; and each age is a volume thrown aside to be speedily forgotten....turn, be supplanted by his successor of to-morrow. What then is to insure this pile, which now towers above me, from sharing the fate of mightier mausoleums... | |
 | Washington Irving - Readers - 1849 - 276 pages
...the present, to think of the characters and anecdotes that gave interest to the past ; and each age is a volume thrown aside to be speedily forgotten....turn, be supplanted by his successor of to-morrow. " Qur fathers," says Sir Thomas Brown, " find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us... | |
 | Washington Irving - Readers - 1849 - 278 pages
...the present, to think of the characters and anecdotes that gave interest to the past ; and each age is a volume thrown aside to be speedily forgotten. The idol of to-day t %S 0 \ns^3- T «*^ vxos*0^ rfjfcafr* Q\\ecU .^e^^ Viea-11^ \v^f us "AA -£ec r,xv^ pa lYv® . „«&... | |
 | William Jordan Unwin - 1862 - 374 pages
...of the present to think of the character and anecdotes that gavo interest to the past ; and each age is a volume thrown aside to be speedily forgotten....in turn be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow. What, then, is to ensure this pile; which now towers above me, from sharing the fate of mightier mausoleums... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1863 - 614 pages
...of the present to think of the character and anecdotes that gave interest to the pust; and each age is a volume thrown aside to be speedily forgotten....turn, be supplanted by his successor of to-morrow. 8. What then is to insure this pile, which now towers above me, from sharing the fate of mightier mausole'ums?... | |
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... on the monuments of princes. How idle a boast, after all, is the immortality of a name! Time is ever silently turning over his pages; we are too much engrossed by the story of the present, to think of the characters and anecdotes that gave interest... 
