[PW] Washington Irving quotation

[S M Colowick]

It's from an essay called "The Mutability of Literature", which you
can read here:

http://www.bartleby.com/109/6.html

smc

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 8:47 PM,  <Solomons1pal at aol.com> wrote:
> Colleagues,
>
>    On the wall of a bookstore in Gold Beach, Oregon, I found the  following
>  quotation, assigned to Washington Irving:
>
>  "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."
>
>    Can anyone point me to the exact source in Irving's  writings?
>
>                         Mark  Halpern
>
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