 What ! Irving ? thrice welcome, warm heart and fine brain, You bring back the happiest spirit from Spain, And the gravest sweet humor, that ever were there Since Cervantes met death in his gentle despair ; Nay, don't be embarrassed, nor look so beseeching,...  The Lafayette Monthly - Page 81872Full view - About this book
 | Authors, American - 1853 - 504 pages
...character, — a combination which has been happily characterized by Lowell in the Fable for Critics : " What ! Irving ! thrice welcome warm heart and fine...from Spain, And the gravest sweet humor, that ever were there Since Cervantes met death in his gentle despair; Nay, don't be embarrassed, nor look so... | |
 | Authors, American - 1853 - 516 pages
...combination which has been happily characterized by Lowell in the Fable for Critics: "What! Irving I thrice welcome warm heart and fine brain, You bring...from Spain, And the gravest sweet humor, that ever were there Since Cervantes met death in his gentle despair; Nay, don't be embarrassed, nor look BO... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - Biography - 1853 - 400 pages
...attraction of a modest character, — a combination the result of which has been thus aptly described: — " What! Irving? thrice welcome warm heart and fine brain,...happiest spirit from Spain, And the gravest sweet humour, that ever were there Since Cervantes met death in his gentle despair; Nay, don't be embarrassed,... | |
 | Authors, American - 1853 - 478 pages
...character, — a combination which has been happily characterized by Lowell in the Fable for Critics : " What ! Irving ) thrice welcome warm heart and fine...happiest spirit from Spain, And the gravest sweet hnmor, that ever were there Since Orvantcs met death in his gentle despair ; Nay, don't be embarrassed,... | |
 | Art - 1853 - 454 pages
...of a " Life of Washington." In Lowell's " Fables for Critics," our author is .thus addressed — " Irving ! thrice welcome, warm heart and fine brain, You bring back the happiest spirits from Spain ; And the gravest sweet humours that ever were there Since Cervantes met death in... | |
 | 1854 - 524 pages
...rather largely to the fabulist's verses, but the first of them did not introduce those which follow : What! Irving? thrice welcome, warm heart and fine...happiest spirit from Spain, And the gravest sweet humour, that ever was there Since Cervantes met death in his gentle despair ; To a true poet-heart... | |
 | American literature - 1854 - 604 pages
...first of them did not introduce those which follow : What! Irving? thrice welcome, warm heart and tine brain, You bring back the happiest spirit from Spain, And the gravest eweet humor that ever was there Since Cervantes met death in his gentle despair; To a true poet-heart... | |
 | Chicago (Ill.) - 1857 - 496 pages
...Spain, »L, well's Fable for critics. THE CHICAGO MAGAZINE. And the gravest sweet humor, that over were there, Since Cervantes met death in his gentle despair. Nay, don't be embaraMed, nor look so beeaeeching I shan't run directly 'against my own preaching. And, havi .g just... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1858 - 450 pages
...character, — a combination Trhich has been happily characterized by Lowell in the Fable for Critics : " What ! Irving ? thrice welcome warm heart and fine...happiest spirit from Spain, And the gravest sweet hum or, that ever were there Since Cervantes met death in his gentle despair ; Nay, don't be embarrassed,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1858 - 328 pages
...little hour ! " What ! Irving ? thrice welcome, warm heart And the gravest sweet humor, that ever were there Since Cervantes met death in his gentle despair; Nay, don't be embarrassed, nor look so beseeching. — I shan't run directly against my own preaching, And, having just laughed... | |
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