Washington IrvingHoughton, Mifflin, 1884 - 304 páginas |
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... called best authors are not those most widely read at any given time . Some who attain the position of classics are subject to variations in popular and even in scholarly favor or neglect . It happens to the princes of litera- ture to ...
... called best authors are not those most widely read at any given time . Some who attain the position of classics are subject to variations in popular and even in scholarly favor or neglect . It happens to the princes of litera- ture to ...
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... those most active in it do not always per- ceive how largely its direction is determined by what are called mere systems of philoso- phy . The novelist may not know whether he is steered by Kant , or Hegel , or 4 WASHINGTON IRVING .
... those most active in it do not always per- ceive how largely its direction is determined by what are called mere systems of philoso- phy . The novelist may not know whether he is steered by Kant , or Hegel , or 4 WASHINGTON IRVING .
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... called literary artists will best retain their hold who have faithfully painted the manners of their own time . Irving has shared the neglect of the writ- The ers of his generation . It would be strange PRELIMINARY . 5.
... called literary artists will best retain their hold who have faithfully painted the manners of their own time . Irving has shared the neglect of the writ- The ers of his generation . It would be strange PRELIMINARY . 5.
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... . Besides this , and with respect to Irving in particular , there has been in America a criticism sometimes called the destruc- tive , sometimes the Donnybrook Fair that found " earnestness " the only thing in the 8 WASHINGTON IRVING .
... . Besides this , and with respect to Irving in particular , there has been in America a criticism sometimes called the destruc- tive , sometimes the Donnybrook Fair that found " earnestness " the only thing in the 8 WASHINGTON IRVING .
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... called the " Knickerbocker School " ( as- suming Irving to be the head of it ) as want- ing in purpose and virility , a merely ro- mantic development of the post - Revolution- ary period . And it has been to some extent the fashion to ...
... called the " Knickerbocker School " ( as- suming Irving to be the head of it ) as want- ing in purpose and virility , a merely ro- mantic development of the post - Revolution- ary period . And it has been to some extent the fashion to ...
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