Washington IrvingHoughton, Mifflin, 1884 - 304 páginas |
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... mind does not nec- essarily give currency ; the so - 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 ...
... mind does not nec- essarily give currency ; the so - 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 ...
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... Irving depends upon leisure of mind . The mass of readers have cared less for form than for novelty and news and the sat- isfying of a recently awakened curiosity . This was inevitable in an era of journalism , one 6 WASHINGTON IRVING .
... Irving depends upon leisure of mind . The mass of readers have cared less for form than for novelty and news and the sat- isfying of a recently awakened curiosity . This was inevitable in an era of journalism , one 6 WASHINGTON IRVING .
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... minds of European sentimentalists . Mr. Brown received a fair education in a classical school in his native city , and studied law , which he abandoned on the threshold . of practice , as ... mind of romantic sensibil- ity PRELIMINARY . 11.
... minds of European sentimentalists . Mr. Brown received a fair education in a classical school in his native city , and studied law , which he abandoned on the threshold . of practice , as ... mind of romantic sensibil- ity PRELIMINARY . 11.
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Charles Dudley Warner. The tution he had a mind of romantic sensibil- ity , and in the comparative inaction imposed by his frail health he indulged in vision- ary speculation , and in solitary wanderings which developed the habit of ...
Charles Dudley Warner. The tution he had a mind of romantic sensibil- ity , and in the comparative inaction imposed by his frail health he indulged in vision- ary speculation , and in solitary wanderings which developed the habit of ...
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... mind , such power as a ghastly story has , told by the chimney- corner on a tempestuous night , then Mr. Brown's romances cannot be dismissed with- out a certain recognition . But they never represented anything distinctively Ameri- can ...
... mind , such power as a ghastly story has , told by the chimney- corner on a tempestuous night , then Mr. Brown's romances cannot be dismissed with- out a certain recognition . But they never represented anything distinctively Ameri- can ...
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