The Life of Washington Irving
The Life of Washington Irving
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While he was residing in this ro- mantic old Moorish palace, he was appointed Secretary of Legation to London, whither he repaired in October. Here two honors awaited him : the first being a gold medal, of the value of fifty guineas, which was adjudged, to him by the Council of the Royal Society of Literature, the other, the degree of LL. D. , which was conferred upon him by the University of Oxford. Notwith- standing these honers, of which any man of let- ters might well be proud, and of the p...ersonal esteem and affection with which he was regard- ed, there can be no doubt that his reputation LIFE OF IR VINO. 55 had lessened since the publication of the "Sketch- Book, " in 1820, and of the " Life and Voyages oi Columbus, " in 1828. Whether his intermediate and later works were of a lower order of liter- ary excellence than these were admitted to possess, or whether that many-headed beast, the public, was weary of them, is a question I do not feel called upon to decide. It is enough to note here that his popularity was so greatly on the wane that he parted with the "Voyages of the Companions of Columbus "to Murray for only five hundred guineas ; and that his sharp business friend, Colonel Aspinwall, could only obtain a thousand guineas for his next work, " The Alhambra, " and this not from Mur- ray, but from Colburn and Bentley.
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While he was residing in this ro- mantic old Moorish palace, he was appointed Secretary of Legation to London, whither he repaired in October. Here two honors awaited him : the first being a gold medal, of the value of fifty guineas, which was adjudged, to him by the Council of the Royal Society of Literature, the other, the degree of LL. D. , which was conferred upon him by the University of Oxford. Notwith- standing these honers, of which any man of let- ters might well be proud, and of the p...ersonal esteem and affection with which he was regard- ed, there can be no doubt that his reputation LIFE OF IR VINO. 55 had lessened since the publication of the "Sketch- Book, " in 1820, and of the " Life and Voyages oi Columbus, " in 1828. Whether his intermediate and later works were of a lower order of liter- ary excellence than these were admitted to possess, or whether that many-headed beast, the public, was weary of them, is a question I do not feel called upon to decide. It is enough to note here that his popularity was so greatly on the wane that he parted with the "Voyages of the Companions of Columbus "to Murray for only five hundred guineas ; and that his sharp business friend, Colonel Aspinwall, could only obtain a thousand guineas for his next work, " The Alhambra, " and this not from Mur- ray, but from Colburn and Bentley.
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