Tales Of A Traveller, By Washington Irving

















































































































 -  So I abandoned Sir Richard Steele's cottage in
despair, and crept into less celebrated, though no less poetical and
airy - Page 143
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So I Abandoned Sir Richard Steele's Cottage In Despair, And Crept Into Less Celebrated, Though No Less Poetical And Airy Lodgings In A Garret In Town.

I see you are growing weary, so I will not detain you with any more of my luckless attempts to get astride of Pegasus.

Still I could not consent to give up the trial and abandon those dreams of renown in which I had indulged. How should I ever be able to look the literary circle of my native village in the face, if I were so completely to falsify their predictions. For some time longer, therefore, I continued to write for fame, and of course was the most miserable dog in existence, besides being in continual risk of starvation.

I have many a time strolled sorrowfully along, with a sad heart and an empty stomach, about five o'clock, and looked wistfully down the areas in the west end of the town; and seen through the kitchen windows the fires gleaming, and the joints of meat turning on the spits and dripping with gravy; and the cook maids beating up puddings, or trussing turkeys, and have felt for the moment that if I could but have the run of one of those kitchens, Apollo and the muses might have the hungry heights of Parnassus for me. Oh, sir! talk of meditations among the tombs - they are nothing so melancholy as the meditations of a poor devil without penny in pouch, along a line of kitchen windows towards dinner-time.

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