Irvingiana: A Memorial of Washington IrvingC.B. Richardson, 1860 - 64 páginas |
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... to Act of Congress , in the year 1859 , BY CHARLES B. RICHARDSON , In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York . CONTENTS . I. MEMORANDA OF THE LITERARY CAREER OF WASHINGTON.
... to Act of Congress , in the year 1859 , BY CHARLES B. RICHARDSON , In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York . CONTENTS . I. MEMORANDA OF THE LITERARY CAREER OF WASHINGTON.
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... CAREER OF WASHINGTON IRVING . BY EVERT A. DUYCKINCK • Original Letter from Mr. Irving concerning his Birth - place - Reminiscences of Allston- Knickerbocker and its Reception - Life of Campbell - Passages from Moore's Diary -John Neal's ...
... CAREER OF WASHINGTON IRVING . BY EVERT A. DUYCKINCK • Original Letter from Mr. Irving concerning his Birth - place - Reminiscences of Allston- Knickerbocker and its Reception - Life of Campbell - Passages from Moore's Diary -John Neal's ...
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... career : - " I shall feel satisfaction in putting on record my own recantation of the erroneous opinion I once entertained , and may have occasionally expressed , of the private char- acter of an illustrious poet , whose moral worth is ...
... career : - " I shall feel satisfaction in putting on record my own recantation of the erroneous opinion I once entertained , and may have occasionally expressed , of the private char- acter of an illustrious poet , whose moral worth is ...
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... career with not unproved powers , and an inward conscious- ness of his fitness for the pursuit . In this memoir of Campbell we meet with a beautiful image illustrating the sentiment of obligation to British authorship , which must ...
... career with not unproved powers , and an inward conscious- ness of his fitness for the pursuit . In this memoir of Campbell we meet with a beautiful image illustrating the sentiment of obligation to British authorship , which must ...
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... career . " Con- tinuing this retrospect , Mr. Irving relates that " the idea of writing a life of Washington entered at an early day into his mind . It was especially pressed upon his attention nearly thirty years ago , while he was in ...
... career . " Con- tinuing this retrospect , Mr. Irving relates that " the idea of writing a life of Washington entered at an early day into his mind . It was especially pressed upon his attention nearly thirty years ago , while he was in ...
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Abbotsford acquaintance Addison ADDRESS Allston American anecdote appeared Astor Astor Library ATHENÆUM CLUB beauty Brevoort career character charm church Columbus Creighton death deceased delight dinner Dutch early England English fame feel funeral genial genius Geoffrey Crayon GEORGE WASHINGTON GREENE Goldsmith grace Granada grave heart HENRY THEODORE TUCKERMAN honor Hudson humor ICHABOD CRANE interest Irving pointed Irving's kind Knickerbocker labors land late letter literary literature living London look loved memory mind Moore mourning N. P. WILLIS native nature never occasion Passaic passed peculiar poet published remarked replied residence resolutions Rip Van Winkle scene Sketch Book Sleepy Hollow Society Spain speak spirit style Sunnyside Tarrytown taste THEODORE TILTON thought tion took tribute Walter Scott Washington Irving William words writings written York youth
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Página xlviii - and was startled by the roar of my own gun, as it broke the Sabbath stillness around, and was prolonged and reverberated by the angry echoes. If ever I should wish for a retreat whither I might steal from the world and its distractions, and dream quietly away the remnant of a troubled life, I know of none
Página vii - small elderly gentleman, dressed in an old black coat and cocked hat, by the name of Knickerbocker" etc., who had left his lodgings at the Columbian Hotel in Mulberry street ; then a statement that the old gentleman had left " a very curious kind of a written book in his room,
Página xvii - If ever I should wish for a retreat, whither I might steal from the world and its distractions, and dream quietly away the remainder of a troubled life, 1 know of none more promising than this little valley.
Página viii - York. I am sensible that, as a stranger to American parties and politics, I must lose much of the concealed satire of the piece; but I must own that, looking at the simple and obvious meaning only, I have never read any thing so closely resembling the stile of Dean Swift as the annals of
Página viii - Knickerbocker. 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
Página xxiv - mine eyes shall behold, and not another. " We brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. The Lord gave, and the Lord hath
Página xxiv - Behold the innumerable host Of angels clothed in light ; Behold the spirits of the just, Whose faith is changed to sight. Behold the blest assembly there, Whose names are writ in heaven ; Hear,
Página xlvi - 1 mio autore ; Tu se' solo colui da cui io tolsi Lo bello stile che in
Página xxxvi - Every reader has his first book. I mean to say, one book among all others, which in early youth first fascinates his imagination, and at once excites and satisfies the desires of his mind. To me this first book was the Sketch
Página xx - faith the bark that trusted to its waves. I gloried in its simple, quiet, majestic, epic flow, ever »straight forward, or, if forced aside for once by opposing mountains, struggling bravely through them, and resuming its onward march. Behold, thought I, an emblem of a good man's course through life, ever simple, open, and direct; or if,