Washington IrvingHoughton, Mifflin, 1892 - 304 páginas For fifty years Irving charmed and instructed the American people and was the author who held on the whole the first place in their affections. |
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... tive theology - devoted their genius to pol- itics . It is in the political writings imme- diately preceding and following the Revolu- tion- such as those of Hamilton , Madison , of Jay , Franklin , Jefferson - that the new PRELIMINARY . 9.
... tive theology - devoted their genius to pol- itics . It is in the political writings imme- diately preceding and following the Revolu- tion- such as those of Hamilton , Madison , of Jay , Franklin , Jefferson - that the new PRELIMINARY . 9.
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... political ferment during which " Alcuin " was put forth was not unlike that which may be said to have reached its height in extravagance and millennial expec- tation in 1847-48 . In " Alcuin are antici- pated most of the subsequent ...
... political ferment during which " Alcuin " was put forth was not unlike that which may be said to have reached its height in extravagance and millennial expec- tation in 1847-48 . In " Alcuin are antici- pated most of the subsequent ...
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... political subjects , and wrote upon them with vigor and sagacity . He was the editor of two short - lived literary periodicals which were nevertheless useful in their day : " The Monthly Magazine and American Re- view , " begun in New ...
... political subjects , and wrote upon them with vigor and sagacity . He was the editor of two short - lived literary periodicals which were nevertheless useful in their day : " The Monthly Magazine and American Re- view , " begun in New ...
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... politics , the discussion of constitutional questions , of tariffs and finance , had given way to moral agitations . Every political movement was determined by its relation to slavery . Ec- centricities of all sorts were developed . It ...
... politics , the discussion of constitutional questions , of tariffs and finance , had given way to moral agitations . Every political movement was determined by its relation to slavery . Ec- centricities of all sorts were developed . It ...
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... political affairs . The town fascinated him more than any other in Europe ; he notes that the city is rapidly beautifying under the emperor , that the people seem gay and happy , and Vive la bagatelle ! is again the burden of their song ...
... political affairs . The town fascinated him more than any other in Europe ; he notes that the city is rapidly beautifying under the emperor , that the people seem gay and happy , and Vive la bagatelle ! is again the burden of their song ...
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Página 228 - ... as one of her father's peaches, and universally famed, not merely for her beauty, but her vast expectations. She was withal a little of a coquette, as might be perceived even in her dress, which was a mixture of ancient and modern fashions, as most suited to set off her .charms. She wore the ornaments of pure yellow gold which her great-greatgrandmother had brought over from Saardam, the tempting stomacher of the olden time, and withal a provokingly short petticoat to display the prettiest foot...
Página 229 - ... night; swallows and martins skimmed twittering about the eaves; and rows of pigeons, some with one eye turned up, as if watching the weather, some with their heads under their wings or buried in their bosoms, and others, swelling, and cooing, and bowing about their dames...
Página 232 - ... residence. Here, rows of resplendent pewter, ranged on a long dresser, dazzled his eyes. In one corner stood a huge bag of wool ready to be spun ; in another a quantity of linsey-woolsey just from the loom ; ears of Indian corn and strings of dried apples and peaches, hung in gay festoons along the walls, mingled with the gaud of red peppers ; and a door left ajar gave him a peep into the best parlor, where the clawfooted chairs and dark mahogany tables shone like mirrors ; and irons, with their...
Página 229 - A great elm-tree spread its broad branches over it, at the foot of which bubbled up a spring of the softest and sweetest water in a little well formed of a barrel, and then stole sparkling away through the grass to a neighboring brook that babbled along among alders and dwarf willows.
Página 228 - Among the musical disciples who assembled, one evening in each week, to receive his instructions in psalmody, was Katrina Van Tassel, the daughter and only child of a substantial Dutch farmer. She was a blooming lass of fresh eighteen; plump as a partridge; ripe and melting and rosy cheeked as one of her father's peaches, and universally famed, not merely for her beauty, but her vast expectations.
Página 230 - ... mouth; the pigeons were snugly put to bed in a comfortable pie, and tucked in with a coverlet of crust; the geese were swimming in their own gravy, and the ducks pairing cosily in dishes, like snug married couples, with a decent competency of onion sauce. In the porkers he saw carved out the future sleek side of bacon, and juicy relishing ham; not a turkey but he beheld daintily trussed up, with its gizzard under its wing, and, peradventure, a necklace of savory sausages...
Página 232 - Ichabod entered the hall, which formed the centre of the mansion and the place of usual residence. Here, rows of resplendent pewter, ranged on a long dresser, dazzled his eyes. In one corner stood a huge bag of wool ready to be spun ; in another a quantity of linseywoolsey just from...
Página 74 - I have been employed these few evenings in reading them aloud to Mrs. S. and two ladies who are our guests, and our sides have been absolutely sore with laughing. I think, too, there are passages, which indicate that the author possesses powers of a different kind, and has some touches which remind me much of Sterne.
Página 201 - The renowned Wouter (or Walter) Van Twiller was descended from a long line of Dutch burgomasters, who had successively dozed away their lives and grown fat upon the bench of magistracy in Rotterdam, and who had comported themselves with such singular wisdom and propriety that they were never either heard or talked of— which, next to being universally applauded, should be the object of ambition of all magistrates and rulers.
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