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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Página 78
... fancy to her lit- tle daughter . Only think , sir , that child is only six years old , and talks the Italian like a book , by ; little devil learnt it from an Italian servant , - damned clever fellow ; lived with my brother George ten ...
... fancy to her lit- tle daughter . Only think , sir , that child is only six years old , and talks the Italian like a book , by ; little devil learnt it from an Italian servant , - damned clever fellow ; lived with my brother George ten ...
Página 106
... fancy any distortion , protuber- ance , and fungous embellishment that can be pro- duced in the human form by high and gross feed- ing , by the bloating operations of malt liquors , and by the rheumy influence of a damp , foggy ...
... fancy any distortion , protuber- ance , and fungous embellishment that can be pro- duced in the human form by high and gross feed- ing , by the bloating operations of malt liquors , and by the rheumy influence of a damp , foggy ...
Página 107
... fancy- ing to myself how Bonaparte would have de- lighted in having such toast - and - butter generals to deal with . This old cad is doubtless a sample of those generals that flourished in the old mili- tary school , when armies would ...
... fancy- ing to myself how Bonaparte would have de- lighted in having such toast - and - butter generals to deal with . This old cad is doubtless a sample of those generals that flourished in the old mili- tary school , when armies would ...
Página 112
... fancy me , oh , thou sweetest of poets , ' wandering by the course of this romantic stream a lovely girl hanging on my arm , pointing out the beauties of the surround- ing scenery , and repeating in the most dul- cet voice tracts of ...
... fancy me , oh , thou sweetest of poets , ' wandering by the course of this romantic stream a lovely girl hanging on my arm , pointing out the beauties of the surround- ing scenery , and repeating in the most dul- cet voice tracts of ...
Página 120
... fancy of the reader more than to his judgment . My writings may appear , therefore , light and trifling in our country of philosophers and politicians . But if they possess merit in the class of literature to which they be- long , it is ...
... fancy of the reader more than to his judgment . My writings may appear , therefore , light and trifling in our country of philosophers and politicians . But if they possess merit in the class of literature to which they be- long , it is ...
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