 | 1860 - 620 páginas
...equaled, by any thing which has since appeared. This was followed by Knickerbocker's History of New- York, which at once placed Mr. Irving at the head...probably been read as widely and with as keen a relish as any thing from Mr Irving's pen. It would seem cynical to subject a work of this kind to an austere... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1860 - 76 páginas
...equalled, by any thing which has .since appeared. This was foliowed by Knickerbocker1» Ilixtory of New York, which at once placed Mr. Irving at the head...been read as widely, and with as keen a relish, as any thing from Mr. Irving's pen. It would seem cynical to subject a work of this kind to an austere... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1860 - 624 páginas
...equaled, by any thing which has since appeared. This was followed by Knickerbocker's History of New-York, which at once placed Mr. Irving at the head of American...probably been read as widely and with as keen a relish as any thing from Mr Irving's pen. It would seem cynical to subject a work of this kind to an austere... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1860 - 82 páginas
...equalled, by any thing which has since appeared. This was followed by Knickerbocker's History of New York, which at once placed Mr. Irving at the head...belongs, I know of nothing happier than this work, in our langnage. It has probably been read as widely, and with as keen a relish, as any thing from Mr. Irving's... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 810 páginas
...inimitable wit and originality. — TUCKERMAN, HENRY THEODORE, 1852, A Sketch of American Literature. In the class of compositions to which it belongs,...keen a relish, as anything from Mr. Irving's pen. —EVERETT, EDWARDI 1859, Remarks at a Meeting of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Dec. 15; Proceedings,... | |
 | 1915 - 526 páginas
...pleasant, too sustained a tissue of merriment and ridicule".80 Many years later he affirmed that it had "probably been read as widely and with as keen a relish as anything from Mr. Irving's pen".81 EP Whipple has characterized it as "the •' Everett, Orations and Speeches. IV (1868), 251.... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1927 - 572 páginas
...publication in 1809. Literature. Edward Everett's comments in 1859 bring us to the year of Irving's death : " In the class of compositions to which it belongs,...of nothing happier than this work in our language." l This brief summary of Knickerbocker's reputation, as well as its English career 2 and its subsequent... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1860 - 498 páginas
...equalled, by any thing which has since appeared. This was followed by "Knickerbocker's History of New York," which at once placed Mr. Irving at the head...been read as widely, and with as keen a relish, as any thing from Mr. Irving's pen. It would seem cynical to subject a work of this kind to an austere... | |
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Salmagundi, to which he was a principal contributor, enjoyed a success throughout the United States far beyond any former similar work, and not surpassed, if equaled, by any thing which has since appeared. This was followed by Knickerbocker's History... 