Washington IrvingHoughton, Mifflin, 1884 - 304 páginas |
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... scenes , nota- bly in the descriptions of the yellow fever in Philadelphia , found in the romance of " Arthur Mervyn . " There is , however , over all of them a false and pallid light ; his characters are seen in a spectral atmosphere ...
... scenes , nota- bly in the descriptions of the yellow fever in Philadelphia , found in the romance of " Arthur Mervyn . " There is , however , over all of them a false and pallid light ; his characters are seen in a spectral atmosphere ...
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... vermin . " God knows my mind never suffered so much as on this journey , " he writes , " when I saw such scenes of want and misery continually be- fore me , without the power of effectually relieving them 36 WASHINGTON IRVING .
... vermin . " God knows my mind never suffered so much as on this journey , " he writes , " when I saw such scenes of want and misery continually be- fore me , without the power of effectually relieving them 36 WASHINGTON IRVING .
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... him in pol- itics , " he accepted a retainer from Burr's friends in 1807 , and attended his trial in Richmond , but more in the capacity of an observer of the scene than a lawyer . He did SOCIETY AND " SALMAGUNDI . " 55.
... him in pol- itics , " he accepted a retainer from Burr's friends in 1807 , and attended his trial in Richmond , but more in the capacity of an observer of the scene than a lawyer . He did SOCIETY AND " SALMAGUNDI . " 55.
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Charles Dudley Warner. observer of the scene than a lawyer . He did not share the prevalent opinion of Burr's treason , and regarded him as a man so fallen as to be shorn of the power to injure the country , one for whom he could feel ...
Charles Dudley Warner. observer of the scene than a lawyer . He did not share the prevalent opinion of Burr's treason , and regarded him as a man so fallen as to be shorn of the power to injure the country , one for whom he could feel ...
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... scene with the hearty enjoyment of a child , to whom literature seems a sport rather than a labor or ambition , an author void of all the petulance , egotism , and pe- culiarities of the craft . We have Moore's authority for saying that ...
... scene with the hearty enjoyment of a child , to whom literature seems a sport rather than a labor or ambition , an author void of all the petulance , egotism , and pe- culiarities of the craft . We have Moore's authority for saying that ...
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