Frasi di Washington Irving

Origine: Da La vigilia di natale; in Il libro degli schizzi.

pag. 46
La leggenda della Valle Addormentata

Origine: Da Rip Van Winkle, pag. 6.

1992, pag. 71
La leggenda della Valle Addormentata

2012, pp. 13-14
La leggenda di Sleepy Hollow

pag. 67
La leggenda della Valle Addormentata

2012, pp. 11-12
La leggenda di Sleepy Hollow

2012, p. 26
La leggenda di Sleepy Hollow

2012, pp. 17-18
La leggenda di Sleepy Hollow

Origine: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Attributed to Irving as early as 1883. [Hit and miss : a story of real life, Angie Stewart, Manly, Chicago, J.L. Regan, 1883, i, http://hdl.handle.net/2027/osu.32435018229575?urlappend=%3Bseq=7] However, it does not seem to appear in Irving's known works. Other citations from the same year leave the quotation unattributed. [Henry S. (ed.), Clubb, The Peacemaker and Court of Arbitration, Volume 1, Universal Peace Union, 1883, 125, Philadelphia, https://books.google.com/books?id=Uu84AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA125] [The Australian Women's Magazine and Domestic Journal, Vol. 2 No. 2 (May 1883), 1883, Melbourne, 435, https://books.google.com/books?id=mq0sAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA435]. A similar passage is found in a pseudonymous novel published two years earlier in 1881: "Julia knew that sacrifices to patience are not in vain. Although they often do not produce the happiness for which they are made, they will, always, flow back and soften and purify the heart of the one who makes them". [Illma, Or, Which was Wife?, Miss, M.L.A., Cornwell & Johnson, 1881, 239, New York, http://hdl.handle.net/2027/osu.32435017658592?urlappend=%3Bseq=245]
Disputed

"The Mutabilities of Literature".
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819–1820)
Contesto: Language gradually varies, and with it fade away the writings of authors who have flourished their allotted time; otherwise, the creative powers of genius would overstock the world, and the mind would be completely bewildered in the endless mazes of literature. Formerly there were some restraints on this excessive multiplication. Works had to be transcribed by hand, which was a slow and laborious operation; they were written either on parchment, which was expensive, so that one work was often erased to make way for another; or on papyrus, which was fragile and extremely perishable. Authorship was a limited and unprofitable craft, pursued chiefly by monks in the leisure and solitude of their cloisters. The accumulation of manuscripts was slow and costly, and confined almost entirely to monasteries. To these circumstances it may, in some measure, be owing that we have not been inundated by the intellect of antiquity; that the fountains of thought have not been broken up, and modern genius drowned in the deluge. But the inventions of paper and the press have put an end to all these restraints. They have made everyone a writer, and enabled every mind to pour itself into print, and diffuse itself over the whole intellectual world. The consequences are alarming. The stream of literature has swollen into a torrent — augmented into a river — expanded into a sea.

"The Mutabilities of Literature".
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819–1820)
Contesto: There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of human nature. They are like gigantic trees that we sometimes see on the banks of a stream; which, by their vast and deep roots, penetrating through the mere surface, and laying hold on the very foundations of the earth, preserve the soil around them from being swept away by the ever-flowing current, and hold up many a neighboring plant, and perhaps worthless weed, to perpetuity.

"The Wife".
Origine: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819–1820)

"Philip of Pokanoket : An Indian Memoir".
A more extensive statement not found as such in this work is attributed to Irving in Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book (1923) edited by Roycroft Shop:
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819–1820)
Variante: Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.

Origine: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories

Tales of a Traveler (1824), Preface, p. 7.
Origine: Tales of a Traveller

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819–1820)
Origine: "Rip Van Winkle".

Origine: Old Christmas: From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving

Origine: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Origine: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories

Origine: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories

"The Art of Book-Making".
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819–1820)

"The Broken Heart".
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819–1820)

"Traits of Indian Character".
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819–1820)

"Rip Van Winkle".
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819–1820)

Mahomet and his successors, George P. Putnam, 1850, p. 339.
Mahomet and his successors (1849)

"Westminster Abbey".
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819–1820)

"The Adventure Of The German Student".

"Westminster Abbey".
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819–1820)

Book III, ch. 2 This derives from a statement by William Shakespeare in the play Julius Caesar where Caesar declares:
Knickerbocker's History of New York http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/13042 (1809)

Bracebridge Hall. Bachelors (1822).

"The Author's Account of Himself".
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819–1820)