Washington IrvingHoughton, Mifflin, 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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... " He had a love of music , which became later in life a passion , and great fondness for the theatre . The stolen delight of the theatre he first tasted - in company with a boy who was somewhat his 26 WASHINGTON IRVING .
... " He had a love of music , which became later in life a passion , and great fondness for the theatre . The stolen delight of the theatre he first tasted - in company with a boy who was somewhat his 26 WASHINGTON IRVING .
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... delightful society , and Irving seems to have been more attracted by that than by the historical curiosities . His health was restored , and his spirits re- covered elasticity in the genial hospitality ; he was surrounded by friends to ...
... delightful society , and Irving seems to have been more attracted by that than by the historical curiosities . His health was restored , and his spirits re- covered elasticity in the genial hospitality ; he was surrounded by friends to ...
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... delighted me . She penetrated in a moment to my heart . She froze and melted it by turns ; a glance of her eye , a start , an exclamation , thrilled through my whole frame . The more I see her the more I admire her . I hardly breathe ...
... delighted me . She penetrated in a moment to my heart . She froze and melted it by turns ; a glance of her eye , a start , an exclamation , thrilled through my whole frame . The more I see her the more I admire her . I hardly breathe ...
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... the opera ; he learned how to dine , and to ap- preciate the delights of a brilliant salon ; he was picking up languages ; he was ob serving nature and men , and especially women . That MANHOOD : FIRST VISIT TO EUROPE . 41.
... the opera ; he learned how to dine , and to ap- preciate the delights of a brilliant salon ; he was picking up languages ; he was ob serving nature and men , and especially women . That MANHOOD : FIRST VISIT TO EUROPE . 41.
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... delighted to be known 1 Irving once illustrated his legal acquirements at this time by the relation of the following anecdote to his nephew : Josiah Ogden Hoffman and Martin Wilkins , an effective and witty advocate , had been appointed ...
... delighted to be known 1 Irving once illustrated his legal acquirements at this time by the relation of the following anecdote to his nephew : Josiah Ogden Hoffman and Martin Wilkins , an effective and witty advocate , had been appointed ...
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