The sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, gent[pseud.] together with Abbotsford and other selections from the writings of Washington Irving .. . Sign of the Bull and Mouth InnFrom Callows London Taverns. Westminster Abbey from the Deans Yard WESTMINSTER ABBEY [Comment, — The essay on Westminster Abbey records anemotional experience. In other excursions Irving transportedhimself into the past by an intellectual effort in which the loreand the sentiment of many brooding hours in the library mingledwith the emotions awakened by the prospect of places longdreamed of. When he came to Westminster, the gre
The sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, gent[pseud.] together with Abbotsford and other selections from the writings of Washington Irving .. . Sign of the Bull and Mouth InnFrom Callows London Taverns. Westminster Abbey from the Deans Yard WESTMINSTER ABBEY [Comment, — The essay on Westminster Abbey records anemotional experience. In other excursions Irving transportedhimself into the past by an intellectual effort in which the loreand the sentiment of many brooding hours in the library mingledwith the emotions awakened by the prospect of places longdreamed of. When he came to Westminster, the great Abbeytook possession of him. To enter its arched doorway was, atonce, an open sesame to the days of buried kings and queens;its storied walls surrounded him with the traditions of cen-turies, and, at each step, new emotions and associationsthronged upon him. He, alone, the living man, seemed theunreal mortal being in this shrine of Englands past. His mind was busy with close observation, but whatever hesaw or recalled contributed to the impression made upon hisimagination; he walked in a dream fashioned of all ancientstuff of human lives, recorded in stone. In writing the essay, howeve
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