 But above all let us not be influenced by any angry feelings so far as to shut our eyes to the perception of what is really excellent and amiable in the English character. We are a young people, necessarily an imitative one, and must take our examples...  The Dublin university magazine - Страница 371по University magazine - 1855Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Washington Irving, Haskell S. Springer - 1999 - 372 страници
...following passage from "English Writers on America," one of the best known selections from The Sketch Book: We are a young people, necessarily an imitative one,...There is no country more worthy of our study than England. The spirit of her constitution is most analogous to ours. The manners of her people, — their... | |
 | Darrel Abel - 2002 - 438 страници
...that American writers should imitate the English. In the essay "English Writers of America" he wrote: We are a young people, necessarily an imitative one,...There is no country more worthy of our study than England. he has attained his legal majority. Irving, by being English enough for the English, gained... | |
 | A. S. Eisenstadt - 2012 - 222 страници
...heaped on their country by English writers? The United States would gladly take England as a model. "We are a young people, necessarily an imitative one, and must take our examples and models . . . from the existing nations of Europe. There is no country more worthy of our study than England."... | |
 | 1820 - 804 страници
...hospitality, but those more rare and noble courtesies which spring from liberality of opinion." * " But, above all, let us not be influenced by any angry...There is no country more worthy of our study than England. The spirit of her constitution is most analogous to ours. The manners of her people— their... | |
 | Louise Pound, Kemp Malone, Arthur Garfield Kennedy, William Cabell Greet - 1926 - 744 страници
.... . . . , the fountain head from which the literature of the language flows." Of Americans he says, "We are a young people, necessarily an imitative one,...There is no country more worthy of our study than England." To English contempt for things American he repeatedly alludes. In his "Advertisement to the... | |
 | 1925 - 984 страници
...the language we are rapidly creating seems to me to fail lamentably beside that of our forebears. " Above all, let us not be influenced by any angry feelings...really excellent and amiable in the English character," wrote Washington Irving, a century ago. " There is no country," he continues, " more worthy of our... | |
 | 1848 - 960 страници
...would the local superstitions of the Old World. But above all, let us not be influenced by any ansrry feelings, so far as to shut our eyes to the perception...excellent and amiable in the English character. We are n young people, necessarily an imitative one, and must take our examples and models, in a great degree,... | |
 | 1820 - 782 страници
...of hospitality, but those more rare and noble courtesies which spring from liberality of opinion." " But, above all, let us not be influenced by any angry feelings, so far it to shut pur eyes to the perception of what is really excellent and amiable in the English character.... | |
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