The sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, gent[pseud.] together with Abbotsford and other selections from the writings of Washington Irving .. . at andthe heroic. They linger about these as about the tombs offriends and companions; for indeed there is something ofcompanionship between the author and the reader. Othermen are known to posterity only through the medium of his-tory, which is continually growing faint and obscure; but theintercourse between the author and his fellow-men is evernew, active, and immediate. He has lived for them morethan for himself; he has sacrificed surrounding enjoyments
The sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, gent[pseud.] together with Abbotsford and other selections from the writings of Washington Irving .. . at andthe heroic. They linger about these as about the tombs offriends and companions; for indeed there is something ofcompanionship between the author and the reader. Othermen are known to posterity only through the medium of his-tory, which is continually growing faint and obscure; but theintercourse between the author and his fellow-men is evernew, active, and immediate. He has lived for them morethan for himself; he has sacrificed surrounding enjoyments,and shut himself up from the delights of social life, that hemight the more intimately commune with distant minds anddistant ages. Well may the world cherish his renown; for ithas been purchased, not by deeds of violence and blood, butby the diligent dispensation of pleasure. Well may posteritybe grateful to his memory; for he has left it an inheritance,not of empty names and sounding actions, but whole treas-ures of wisdom, bright gems of thought, and golden veins oflanguage. 8. From Poets Corner I continued my stroll towards that. WESTMINSTER ABBEY 141 part of the abbey which contains the sepulchres of the wandered among what once were chapels, but which arenow occupied by the tombs and monuments of the every turn I met with some illustrious name, or the cog-nizance of some powerful house renowned in history. As theeye darts into these dusky chambers of death, it catchesglimpses of quaint effigies; some kneeling in niches, as ifin devotion; others stretched upon the tombs, with handspiously pressed together; warriors in armor, as if reposingafter battle; prelates with crosiers and mitres; and nobles inrobes and coronets, lying as it were in state. In glancingover this scene, so strangely populous, yet where every formis so still and silent, it seems almost as if we were treading amansion of that fabled city, where every being had beensuddenly transmuted into
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