Irvingiana: A Memorial of Washington IrvingC.B. Richardson, 1860 - 64 páginas |
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... genius , — for he was your kinsman : Weed his grave clean , ye men of goodness , -for he was your brother . TRISTRAM SHANDY , CHAP . CLXXXVI . NEW YORK : CHARLES B. RICHARDSON . 1860 Entered according to Act of Congress , in the year A ...
... genius , — for he was your kinsman : Weed his grave clean , ye men of goodness , -for he was your brother . TRISTRAM SHANDY , CHAP . CLXXXVI . NEW YORK : CHARLES B. RICHARDSON . 1860 Entered according to Act of Congress , in the year A ...
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... genius . His school education was the best the times afforded . Though something may be said of the defects of the city academies of those days in comparison with the present , we are forced to remember that however prodigally the ...
... genius . His school education was the best the times afforded . Though something may be said of the defects of the city academies of those days in comparison with the present , we are forced to remember that however prodigally the ...
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... genius . " Though Mr. Irving in this later essay speaks slightingly of the earlier composition as written when he was " not in the vein , " we have found it , on perusal , a most engaging piece of writing . A paragraph descriptive of ...
... genius . " Though Mr. Irving in this later essay speaks slightingly of the earlier composition as written when he was " not in the vein , " we have found it , on perusal , a most engaging piece of writing . A paragraph descriptive of ...
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... genius , relieve the monotony of the English description . The winter of 1822 was passed by Mr. Irving at Dresden . He returned to Paris in 1823 , and in the December of the following year published his Tales of a Traveller , with the ...
... genius , relieve the monotony of the English description . The winter of 1822 was passed by Mr. Irving at Dresden . He returned to Paris in 1823 , and in the December of the following year published his Tales of a Traveller , with the ...
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... genius and to your cultivated taste . They appear to me to belong to the best school of English poetry , and to be entitled to rank among the highest of their class . " The British public has already expressed its delight at the graphic ...
... genius and to your cultivated taste . They appear to me to belong to the best school of English poetry , and to be entitled to rank among the highest of their class . " The British public has already expressed its delight at the graphic ...
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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,