Washington Irving Quotes

In The Present Day, When Popular Literature Is Running Into The Low Levels Of Life, And Luxuriating On The Vices And Follies Of Mankind; And When The Universal Pursuit Of Gain Is Trampling Down The Early Growth Of Poetic Feeling, And Wearing Out The Verdure Of The Soul, I Question Whether It Would Not Be Of Service For The Reader Occasionally To Turn To These Records Of Prouder Times And Loftier Modes Of Thinking; And To Steep Himself To The Very Lips In Old Spanish Romance.

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