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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... less than that of the reporter of affairs and discoveries and the special correspondent . The age is too busy , too harassed , to have time for litera- ture ; and enjoyment of writings like those of Irving depends upon leisure of mind ...
... less than that of the reporter of affairs and discoveries and the special correspondent . The age is too busy , too harassed , to have time for litera- ture ; and enjoyment of writings like those of Irving depends upon leisure of mind ...
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... less marked , in our litera- ture . I do not include in it the works of writers either born in England or com- pletely English in training , method , and tra- dition , showing nothing distinctively Amer- ican in their writings except ...
... less marked , in our litera- ture . I do not include in it the works of writers either born in England or com- pletely English in training , method , and tra- dition , showing nothing distinctively Amer- ican in their writings except ...
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... less incompetent masters , and was over at the age of sixteen . The teaching does not seem to have had much discipline or so- lidity ; he studied Latin a few months , but made no other incursion into the classics . The handsome , tender ...
... less incompetent masters , and was over at the age of sixteen . The teaching does not seem to have had much discipline or so- lidity ; he studied Latin a few months , but made no other incursion into the classics . The handsome , tender ...
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... less than a year , Nelson's young admirer was one of the thousands that pressed to see the remains of the great admiral as they lay in state at Greenwich , wrapped in the flag that had floated at the mast - head of the Victory . From ...
... less than a year , Nelson's young admirer was one of the thousands that pressed to see the remains of the great admiral as they lay in state at Greenwich , wrapped in the flag that had floated at the mast - head of the Victory . From ...
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... less range than Kemble , com- pletely satisfied Irving as Iago . Of Mrs. Siddons , who was then old , he scarcely dares to give his impressions lest he should be thought extravagant . " Her looks , " he says , " her voice , her gestures ...
... less range than Kemble , com- pletely satisfied Irving as Iago . Of Mrs. Siddons , who was then old , he scarcely dares to give his impressions lest he should be thought extravagant . " Her looks , " he says , " her voice , her gestures ...
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