JonathanOldstyleEsq

Whim-Whams and Opinions. Instructing the young, reforming the old, correcting the town and castigating the age. Since 1807.

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“I will hasten from this prospect, I thought, before the sun has set. I will carry away a recollection of it bathed in all its beauty.” A little further and Grenada, the Vega and The Alhambra were shut from my view.
The Alhambra—Washington Irving
Engraving by David Roberts

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The 2021 Christmas Smackdown Advent Calendar is here! The 2021 Christmas Smackdown Advent Calendar is Here!! An all-Advent holiday treat for Smackdown Fans!

[Cynthia Carle @cynthiacarle]

The 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐚𝐬 𝐒𝐦𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐀𝐃𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐀𝐑. Specially curated for you. Not as much fun as a live Smackdown, but what is. Next year, friends.

#1: Lupita’s Dream, from the classic 1959 Mexican film “Santa Claus.”
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[JonathanOldstyleEsq @EsqOldstyle]

Taciturn they are when in the company of the white man, whose good-will they distrust and whose language they do not understand; but the white man is equally taciturn under like circumstances."

Washington Irving: A Tour On The Prairies
"The Crayon Miscellany

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"The Indians I have had the opportunity to meet in real life are quite different from those described in poetry. They are by no means the stoics that they are represented: taciturn, unbending, without a tear or a smile...1/2

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..She rose from her bed and stepped to the window.A tall figure stood among the shadows the trees. As it raised its head a beam of moonlight fell upon its countenance. Heaven and Earth! It was the Spectre Bridegroom! 2/2

Washington Irving--The Spectre Bridegroom

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"On the second night of her widowhood she had retired to her chamber, which was remote and over-looked a small garden. The castle clock had just tolled midnight, when a soft strain of music stole up from the garden...(1/2)

[Edward Renehan / illume Media @Ed_Renehan]

For when you are in #London, I can't recommend @DickensMuseum more highly. A "must" place to visit for any Dickens enthusiast. @DickensFellowHQ @Dickens_Society @lucindahawksley
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"...On mounting a rising ground, which brought the figure of his fellow traveler in relief against the sky, gigantic in height and muffled in a cloak, Ichabod was horror struck, on perceiving that he was headless!"
Washington Irving: Legend of Sleepy Hollow

[Historic Hudson Valley @HHValley]

Thanks so much for joining us!

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With great fondness, I'm re-reading this beauty at this very moment!
"It has been a matter of marvel, to my European readers, that a man from the wilds of America should express himself in tolerable English...."

[Scott Monty @ScottMonty]

The New York Public Library Opened on May 23, 1911. One of the joys of my childhood was visiting our town library.⁠
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Week after week, I remember finding my way to favorite sections and shelves, taking favorite books down, and browsing through them.⁠… https://t.co/8ranY0y7Pz

[Atlas Obscura @atlasobscura]

Some said he was demon, while others thought he was just an extraordinarily agile human, but no matter what you believed about the legend, Spring-Heeled Jack was a name that inspired fear among the folk. https://t.co/wjFf9jbEm7

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The following message is brought to you by Geoffrey Crayon, by way of Washington Irving, in Bracebridge Hall, 1822. 👇

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"I have always had an opinion that much good might be done by keeping mankind in good humor with one another. I may be wrong in my philosophy but I shall continue practicing it until convinced of its fallacy. I cannot believe this to be so very bad a world as it is represented."

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"I have always had an opinion that much good might be done by keeping mankind in good humor with one another. I may be wrong in my philosophy but I shall continue practicing it until convinced of its fallacy. I cannot believe this to be so very bad a world as it is represented."

[Scott Monty @ScottMonty]

I found it. Someone call Shel Silverstein.

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"A vast cloud moved over the land, accompanied by a hurricane and a trembling of the earth. Houses were unroofed and lofty towers rocked to their foundations. Doleful was the ruin and great the terror where this baleful cloud passed by."
Washington Irving, The Conquest of Granada

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Canonbury Tower: “It was here Goldsmith resided while writing his Deserted Village. I was shown the very apartment. It was a relic of the original style, with paneled wainscots and Gothic windows. I was pleased with its air of antiquity…” Washington Irving, Tales of a Traveller.

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"He was, in a manner, a literary ghoul, feeding in the charnel-house of decayed literature." 2/2

Washington Irving "The German Student" from Tales of a Traveler.

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"Sometimes he spent hours together in the great libraries of Paris, those catacombs of departed authors, rummaging among their hoards of dusty and obsolete works in quest of food for his unhealthy appetite. 1/2