Irvingiana: A Memorial of Washington IrvingC.B. Richardson, 1860 - 64 páginas |
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... less , of his later , was warm and enthusiastic . The History of Diedrich Knickerbocker has With all the gentleness of Geoffrey Crayon , Mr. Irving was a high - spirited man where honor , duty , or the proprieties were at stake . We ...
... less , of his later , was warm and enthusiastic . The History of Diedrich Knickerbocker has With all the gentleness of Geoffrey Crayon , Mr. Irving was a high - spirited man where honor , duty , or the proprieties were at stake . We ...
Página xvi
... less by an early fondness for the character of the trappers and voyageurs of the West , into whose company he had been thrown in his youth , in Canada , than by his subsequent acquaintance with the projector of the enter- prise . He was ...
... less by an early fondness for the character of the trappers and voyageurs of the West , into whose company he had been thrown in his youth , in Canada , than by his subsequent acquaintance with the projector of the enter- prise . He was ...
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... less would have been demanded by the public in the performance of such a work . A thoroughly scientific school of historians had sprung up in the interval . The collection of facts by the historical societies and other agencies imposed ...
... less would have been demanded by the public in the performance of such a work . A thoroughly scientific school of historians had sprung up in the interval . The collection of facts by the historical societies and other agencies imposed ...
Página xix
... less remunera- tive in America . In a recent statement it is said , that within the last ten years — the period of the revised edition of his works - there have been sold twenty - two thousand sets of fifteen volumes each , exclusive of ...
... less remunera- tive in America . In a recent statement it is said , that within the last ten years — the period of the revised edition of his works - there have been sold twenty - two thousand sets of fifteen volumes each , exclusive of ...
Página xxi
... less nature for the art with which it is adorned . The color of personality attaches us throughout to the author , whose humor of character is always to be felt . This happy art of presenting rude and confused objects in an orderly ...
... less nature for the art with which it is adorned . The color of personality attaches us throughout to the author , whose humor of character is always to be felt . This happy art of presenting rude and confused objects in an orderly ...
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