Posts in The Copybook tagged ‘Washington Irving’
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By Edmund Blair Leighton (1852–1922), Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.
Every Sunday, the Englishman is raised to heaven by the choir, and then taken to her bosom by Mother Earth.
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© Kevin Gordon, Geograph. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
On a visit to an English parish church, American author Washington Irving was treated to an eye-opening contrast between Georgian society’s Old Money and her New.
By Robert Pine (1730-1788), Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
A hen-pecked, ne’er-do-well farmer from New York took off into the Catskill Mountains, and fell in with some very odd company.