Washington IrvingHoughton, Mifflin cand Company, 1881 - 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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Charles Dudley Warner. WASHINGTON IRVING . CHAPTER I. PRELIMINARY . IT is over twenty years since the death of Washington Irving removed that per- sonal presence which is always a powerful , and sometimes the sole , stimulus to the sale ...
Charles Dudley Warner. WASHINGTON IRVING . CHAPTER I. PRELIMINARY . IT is over twenty years since the death of Washington Irving removed that per- sonal presence which is always a powerful , and sometimes the sole , stimulus to the sale ...
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... Irving . It is time to inquire what basis this great reputation had in enduring qualities , what portion of it was due to local and favoring circumstances , and to make an impartial study of the author's literary rank and achievement ...
... Irving . It is time to inquire what basis this great reputation had in enduring qualities , what portion of it was due to local and favoring circumstances , and to make an impartial study of the author's literary rank and achievement ...
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... Irving the cur- rency their writings have now . In the case of Walter Scott , although there is al- ready visible a reaction against a reaction , he is not , at least in America , read by this generation as he was by the last . This ...
... Irving the cur- rency their writings have now . In the case of Walter Scott , although there is al- ready visible a reaction against a reaction , he is not , at least in America , read by this generation as he was by the last . This ...
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... Irving was much read in America by young peo- ple , and his clear style helped to form a good taste and correct ... Irving in particular , there has been in America a criticism - sometimes called the destruc- tive , sometimes the ...
... Irving was much read in America by young peo- ple , and his clear style helped to form a good taste and correct ... Irving in particular , there has been in America a criticism - sometimes called the destruc- tive , sometimes the ...
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... Irving . Some foreshadowings ( the au- tobiographical fragment of Franklin was not published till 1817 ) of its coming may be traced , but there can be no question that his writings were the first that bore the national literary stamp ...
... Irving . Some foreshadowings ( the au- tobiographical fragment of Franklin was not published till 1817 ) of its coming may be traced , but there can be no question that his writings were the first that bore the national literary stamp ...
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