Every Englishman carries a Murray for information and a Byron for sentiment, and finds out by them what he is to know and feel at every step. Pictures and statues have been staled by copy and description, until everything is stereotyped, from the Dying... Roba Di Roma - Page 5by William Wetmore Story - 1864Full view - About this book
| Scotland - 1863 - 822 pages
...capital to associate with his Murray Mr Story's ' Roba.' " Every Englishman, "says this gentleman, " carries a Murray for information and a Byron for sentiment,...every step. Pictures and statues have been staled hy copy and description, until everything is stereotyped, from the Dying Gladiator, with his 'young... | |
| Scotland - 1863 - 826 pages
...capital to associate with his Murray Mr. Story's ' Roba.' " Every Englishman," saya this gentleman, l: carries a Murray for information and a Byron for sentiment, and finds out by them what he is to khow and feel at every step. Pictures and statues have been staled by copy and description, until everything... | |
| John Varriano - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 304 pages
...Nevertheless, at the very beginning ofRoba di Roma (1862), William Wetmore Story flatly states that 'every Englishman carries a Murray for information...finds out by them what he is to know and feel at every step'.50 The habit of reading or recollecting a classic of literature while standing before its subject... | |
| Donald Malcolm Reid - Social Science - 2002 - 428 pages
...(As Tories, however, the Murrays carefully filtered Byron's radical politics out of their guides.)80 "Every Englishman carries a Murray for information,...finds out by them what he is to know and feel at every step."81 Shelley never got past Italy, but who could forget his Egyptian lines: "I met a traveller... | |
| Peter Hulme, Tim Youngs - History - 2002 - 360 pages
...Baedeker guidebook. 'Every Englishman abroad', noted the American William Wetmore Story in the 186os, 'carries a Murray for information, and a Byron for...finds out by them what he is to know and feel at every step'.'1 In a manner characteristic of many modern cultural practices, the devices of rebellion or... | |
| Donald Malcolm Reid - History - 2002 - 432 pages
...Tories, however, the Murrays carefully filtered Byron's radical politics out of their guides.)80 "Even- Englishman carries a Murray for information, and a...finds out by them what he is to know and feel at every step."*1 Shelley never got past Italy, hut who could forget his Egyptian lines: "I met a traveller... | |
| Jolanta T. Pekacz - Music - 2006 - 260 pages
...experiences.12 William Wetmore Story, writing in the 1 860s, claimed that "Every Englishman abroad carries a Murray for information, and a Byron for...out by them what he is 'to know and feel at every step.'"33 Goethe is frequently present in Fanny's writing, the touchstone of her aesthetic experience.... | |
| American essays - 1859 - 794 pages
...have done their work so well that nothing remains to be done after them. Everybody has an herbarinm of dried flowers from all the celebrated sites, and...Murray for information and a Byron for sentiment, and fmds out by them what he is to know and feel at every step. Pictures and statues have been staled by... | |
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