Old Christmas from the Sketch Book of Washington Irving

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There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and rural games of former times. They recall the pictures my fancy used to draw in the May morning of life, when as yet I only knew the world through books, and believed it to be all that poets had painted it; and they bring with them the flavour of those honest days of yore, in which, perhaps with equal fallacy, I am apt to think the world was more home-bred, social, and joyous than at present.

subjects: American Christmas stories,  Christmas,  Christmas stories,  Classic Literature,  Fiction,  Polyamine,  Polyamines,  Carcinogenesis,  Polyamines in the body,  Kongress,  Pathophysiology,  Krebs,  Neoplasms,  Stoffwechsel,  Metabolism,  Aufsatzsammlung,  American fiction (fictional works by one author),  Fiction, christian, collections & anthologies,  American literature,  Country life,  Privately printed books,  Specimens,  Gift books,  Foreign relations,  League of Nations

Places: England