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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... hour is as ingeniously urged in " Alcuin " as it has been in our own day . Mr. Brown's reputation rests upon six romances : " Wieland , " 66 Ormond , " " Ar- thur Mervyn , " " Edgar Huntly , " " Clara Howard , " and " Jane Talbot ...
... hour is as ingeniously urged in " Alcuin " as it has been in our own day . Mr. Brown's reputation rests upon six romances : " Wieland , " 66 Ormond , " " Ar- thur Mervyn , " " Edgar Huntly , " " Clara Howard , " and " Jane Talbot ...
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... hour , and , without the spur of necessity to his literary capacity , he yielded to the temptations of indolence , and settled into the unpromising position of a " man about town . " Occa- sionally , the business of his firm and that of ...
... hour , and , without the spur of necessity to his literary capacity , he yielded to the temptations of indolence , and settled into the unpromising position of a " man about town . " Occa- sionally , the business of his firm and that of ...
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... hour and listen to the cooking of apple fritters . After two hours ' dead silence and suffering on my part I made out to drag him off , and did not stop running until I was a mile from the house . " Irving gives his correspondent ...
... hour and listen to the cooking of apple fritters . After two hours ' dead silence and suffering on my part I made out to drag him off , and did not stop running until I was a mile from the house . " Irving gives his correspondent ...
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... hour . " Irving is glad that he cannot find Brevoort's flute , which the latter requested should be sent to him : " I do not think it would be an innocent amusement for you , as no one has a right to entertain himself at the expense of ...
... hour . " Irving is glad that he cannot find Brevoort's flute , which the latter requested should be sent to him : " I do not think it would be an innocent amusement for you , as no one has a right to entertain himself at the expense of ...
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... hour lost that he gave to it . His letters for two years are bur- dened with harassments in uncongenial de- tails and unsuccessful struggles . Liverpool , where he was compelled to pass most of his time , had few attractions for him ...
... hour lost that he gave to it . His letters for two years are bur- dened with harassments in uncongenial de- tails and unsuccessful struggles . Liverpool , where he was compelled to pass most of his time , had few attractions for him ...
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