Washington IrvingHoughton, Mifflin, 1884 - 304 páginas |
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... VIII . RETURN TO AMERICA : SUNNYSIDE : THE MISSION TO MADRID 158 CHAPTER IX . THE CHARACTERISTIC WORKS 190 CHAPTER X. LAST YEARS : THE CHARACTER OF HIS LITERATURE 282 WASHINGTON IRVING . CHAPTER I. PRELIMINARY . IT is over vi CONTENTS .
... VIII . RETURN TO AMERICA : SUNNYSIDE : THE MISSION TO MADRID 158 CHAPTER IX . THE CHARACTERISTIC WORKS 190 CHAPTER X. LAST YEARS : THE CHARACTER OF HIS LITERATURE 282 WASHINGTON IRVING . CHAPTER I. PRELIMINARY . IT is over vi CONTENTS .
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... Irving charmed and instructed the American people , and was the author who held , on the whole , the first place in their affections . As he was the first to lift American literature into the popular respect 1 CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY PAGE.
... Irving charmed and instructed the American people , and was the author who held , on the whole , the first place in their affections . As he was the first to lift American literature into the popular respect 1 CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY PAGE.
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Charles Dudley Warner. the first to lift American literature into the popular respect of Europe , so for a long time he was the chief representative of the American name in the world of letters . During this period probably no citizen of ...
Charles Dudley Warner. the first to lift American literature into the popular respect of Europe , so for a long time he was the chief representative of the American name in the world of letters . During this period probably no citizen of ...
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... literature ( using the term in its broadest sense ) in the past forty years is greater than could have been expected in a nation which had its ground to clear , its wealth to win , and its new gov- ernmental experiment to adjust ; if we ...
... literature ( using the term in its broadest sense ) in the past forty years is greater than could have been expected in a nation which had its ground to clear , its wealth to win , and its new gov- ernmental experiment to adjust ; if we ...
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... literature into two sorts , the literature of power and the literature of knowledge . The latter is of necessity for to - day only , and must be revised to - morrow . The definition has scarcely De Quincey's usual verbal felicity , but ...
... literature into two sorts , the literature of power and the literature of knowledge . The latter is of necessity for to - day only , and must be revised to - morrow . The definition has scarcely De Quincey's usual verbal felicity , but ...
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