Washington IrvingHoughton, Mifflin, 1884 - 304 páginas |
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... Perhaps there is no better illus- tration of the vigor and intellectual activity of the age than a living English writer , who has traversed and illuminated almost every province of modern thought , controversy , and scholarship ; but ...
... Perhaps there is no better illus- tration of the vigor and intellectual activity of the age than a living English writer , who has traversed and illuminated almost every province of modern thought , controversy , and scholarship ; but ...
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... perhaps shoot him , or cut off his head . " The good souls were much distressed ; they brought him wine , loaded his pockets with fruit , and bade him good - by with a hundred benedictions . Over forty years after , Ir- ving made a ...
... perhaps shoot him , or cut off his head . " The good souls were much distressed ; they brought him wine , loaded his pockets with fruit , and bade him good - by with a hundred benedictions . Over forty years after , Ir- ving made a ...
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... perhaps the first that would occur to a man of let- ters . The journey was altogether disagree- able , even to a traveler used to the rough jaunts in an American wilderness : the inns were miserable ; dirt , noise , and insolence ...
... perhaps the first that would occur to a man of let- ters . The journey was altogether disagree- able , even to a traveler used to the rough jaunts in an American wilderness : the inns were miserable ; dirt , noise , and insolence ...
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... perhaps be called large ; a broad , high , full forehead , and a small mouth . I should call him of medium height , about five feet eight and a half to nine inches , and inclined to be a trifle stout . There was no peculiarity about his ...
... perhaps be called large ; a broad , high , full forehead , and a small mouth . I should call him of medium height , about five feet eight and a half to nine inches , and inclined to be a trifle stout . There was no peculiarity about his ...
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... much superior is our com- edy of to - day ? The beauty and the charms . of the women of two generations ago exist only in tradition ; perhaps we should give to the wit of that time equal admiration if none 52 WASHINGTON IRVING .
... much superior is our com- edy of to - day ? The beauty and the charms . of the women of two generations ago exist only in tradition ; perhaps we should give to the wit of that time equal admiration if none 52 WASHINGTON IRVING .
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