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Washington Irving fue un escritor estadounidense del Romanticismo.

✵ 3. abril 1783 – 28. noviembre 1859
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“Casi todos se figuran en su imaginación a España como una región meridional preciosa, con los suaves encantos de la voluptuosa Italia; pero es, por el contrario, en su mayor parte -si bien se exceptúan algunas de sus provincias marítimas-, un país áspero y melancólico, de escarpadas montañas y extensísimas llanuras desprovistas de árboles, de indescriptible aislamiento y aridez, que participan del salvaje y solitario carácter de África.”

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Fuente: Cuentos de la Alhambra, El viaje. http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/servlet/SirveObras/90251735431269485732457/p0000001.htm#I_2_

“El omnipotente dinero, ese objeto mundial de devoción.”

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Fuente: El Mundo 03.06.2000

“Una palabra suave puede golpear rudamente.”

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“La edad es cuestión de sentimient, no de años.”

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“No hay nadie en el mundo que atienda mejor que la pobretería en España el arte de no hacer nada y de vivir de nada; el clima del país contribuye con la mitad, el temperamento de las gentes aporta la otra mitad. Dad, en efecto, a un español la sombra en verano, el sol en invierno, un trozo de pan, ajos, aceite, garbanzos, una vieja capa y una guitarra, aunque no sea propia, los sones de la guitarra, ¡y que ruede el mundo como quiera! Hablarle de estreches! Para él no hay desgracia; la soportan sus hombros sin encogerse, lo mismo que cuando cuelga de ellos la raída capa. El español es siempre un hidalgo, aun en hambre y en harapos.”

Washington Irving libro Cuentos de la Alhambra

Tales of the Alhambra

“Digamos que el pobre maestro hubiera podido disfrutar por mucho tiempo de una existencia plácida y feliz,… de no haberse cruzado en su camino la criatura que más turbaciones causa en la existencia del hombre, mayores aún que cualesquiera espectros, demonios y brujos juntos: una mujer.”

Washington Irving libro La leyenda de Sleepy Hollow

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

“Éste fue el teatro de su transitoria alegría y hermosura, y allí estaban las huellas de su elegancia y regocijo. ¿Que ha sido de ellos y dónde están? ¡Polvo y cenizas!… ¡Habitantes de las tumbas!… ¡Fantasmas del recuerdo!…”

Washington Irving libro Cuentos de la Alhambra

Cuentos de la Alhambra

“Con tal disposición y determinación, ¡qué país es éste para el viajero, donde la más mísera posada está tan llena de aventuras como un castillo encantado y cada comida es en sí un logro! ¡Que se quejen otros de la falta de buenos caminos y hoteles suntuosos y de todas las complicadas comodidades de un país culto y civilizado en la mansedumbre y el lugar común, pero a mí que me den el trepar por las ásperas montañas, el andar por ahí errante y las costumbres medio salvajes, pero francas y hospitalarias, que le dan un sabor tan exquisito a la querida, vieja y romántica España!”

Washington Irving libro Cuentos de la Alhambra

Cuentos de la Alhambra

Washington Irving: Frases en inglés

“Many of the visions and revelations handed down as having been given by him are spurious. The miracles ascribed to him are all fabrications of Moslem zealots. He expressly and repeatedly disclaimed all miracles excepting the Koran; which, considering its incomparable merit, and the way in which it had come down to him from heaven, he pronounced the greatest of miracles. And here we must indulge a few observations on this famous document. While zealous Moslems and some of the most learned doctors of the faith draw proofs of its divine origin from the inimitable excellence of its style and composition, and the avowed illiteracy of Mahomet, less devout critics have pronounced it a chaos of beauties and defects; without method or arrangement; full of obscurities, incoherencies, repetitions, false versions of scriptural stories, and direct contradictions. The truth is that the Koran as it now exists is not the same Koran delivered by Mahomet to his disciples, but has undergone many corruptions and interpolations.”

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Mahomet and his successors, George P. Putnam, 1850, p. 330-331.
Mahomet and his successors (1849)

“They who drink beer will think beer.”

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Washington Irving libro The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.

"Stratford-on-Avon".
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819–1820)

“His [the author's] renown has been purchased, not by deeds of violence and blood, but by the diligent dispensation of pleasure.”

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Washington Irving libro The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.

"The Westminster Abbey [The Poets' Corner]".
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819–1820)

“Two small aisles on each side of this chapel present a touching instance of the equality of the grave; which brings down the oppressor to a level with the oppressed, and mingles the dust of the bitterest enemies together.”

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Washington Irving libro The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.

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

“Free-livers on a small scale, who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea.”

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The Stout Gentleman http://web.archive.org/20020106095151/www.geocities.com/cyber_explorer99/.

“They claim to be the first inventors of those recondite beverages, cocktail, stonefence, and sherry cobbler.”

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Book IV, ch. 241. <br class="br"> Knickerbocker&#x27;s History of New York http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/13042 (1809)

“In his private dealings he was just. He treated friends and strangers, the rich and poor, the powerful and weak, with equity, and was beloved by the common people for the affability with which he received them, and listened to their complaints. […]”

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Mahomet and his successors, George P. Putnam, 1850, p. 330.
Mahomet and his successors (1849)

“Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.”

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Washington Irving libro The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.

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

“I am always at a loss to know how much to believe of my own stories.”

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Tales of a Traveler http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/13514, To the Reader http://books.google.com/books?id=6R0GAAAAQAAJ&amp;q=%22I+am+always+at+a+loss+to+know+how+much+to+believe+of+my+own+stories%22&amp;pg=PR13#v=onepage (1824).

“Other men are known to posterity only through the medium of history, which is continually growing faint and obscure; but the intercourse between the author and his fellow-men is ever new, active, and immediate.”

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Washington Irving libro The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.

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

“The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages; and unless some of its missionaries penetrate there, and erect banking houses and other pious shrines, there is no knowing how long the inhabitants may remain in their present state of contented poverty.”

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The Creole Village published in The Knickerbocker magazine (November 1836). This is origin of the expression almighty dollar. See Edward Bulwer-Lytton for "the pursuit of the almighty dollar". Compare: "Whilst that for which all virtue now is sold, And almost every vice,—almighty gold", Ben Jonson, Epistle to Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland.

“His wife "ruled the roost," and in governing the governor, governed the province, which might thus be said to be under petticoat government.”

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Book IV, ch. 4. <br class="br"> Knickerbocker&#x27;s History of New York http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/13042 (1809)

“I endeavor to take things as they come with cheerfulness, and when I cannot get a dinner to suit my taste, I endeavor to get a taste to suit my dinner.”

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Letter to William Irving, Jr., about his positive attitude acquired while traveling in Europe.
Fuente: Washington Irving to William Irving Jr., September 20, 1804, Works 23:90.

“How convenient it would be to many of our great men and great families of doubtful origin, could they have the privilege of the heroes of yore, who, whenever their origin was involved in obscurity, modestly announced themselves descended from a god.”

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Book II, ch. 3. <br class="br"> Knickerbocker&#x27;s History of New York http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/13042 (1809)

“The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal — every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open — this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.”

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Washington Irving libro The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.

"Rural Funerals".
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819–1820)

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