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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, chapter 30 (search)
in illness, or his adviser in common things, where advice was needed; but his friend, after my fashion, never! I loved Robert Burns at once and for ever; and Edward Irving, with all the tenderness of a friend and mother. I dare not tell you of my antipathies, unless you would accept them as proof of corresponding affections. s unhappy at the thought of his isolation. To his intimate friends he spoke freely of his desire for a wife's affection. Why he did not then marry,—why men like Irving and Macaulay, gifted with pure and lively affections, never married,—the world does not know; very likely they did not themselves know. No one, it is certain, waravels. Longfellow's reminiscences of Spain conspire with your letters to increase my longings and regrets. You must have great pleasure in the quiet genius of Irving. Minister to Spain, 1842-46. I was very much fascinated by him the only time that I ever had the pleasure of seeing him. It was during a pleasant excursion tha
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 7. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Zzz Missing head (search)
rch and surrounded by trees and shrubbery. The attention of the stranger is also attracted by another consecrated building on the hill slope of Belvidere,—one of Irving's shingle palaces, painted in imitation of stone,— a great wooden sham, whelked and horned with pine spires and turrets, a sort of whittled representation of theons, or from Bernard Barton, became acquainted with it, and on more than one occasion, in his letters and Essays of Elia, refers to it with warm commendation. Edward Irving pronounced it a godsend. Some idea of the lively interest which the fine literary circle gathered around the hearth of Lamb felt in the beautiful simplicity oaried culture, the intimate friend of Goethe, Wordsworth, and Coleridge. In his notes for First Month, 1824, he says, after a reference to a sermon of his friend Irving, which he feared would deter rather than promote belief: How different this from John Woolman's Journal I have been reading at the same time! A perfect gem! Hi