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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... light ; his characters are seen in a spectral atmosphere . If a romance is to be judged not by literary rules , but by its power of making an im- pression upon the mind , such power as a ghastly story has , told by the chimney- corner ...
... light ; his characters are seen in a spectral atmosphere . If a romance is to be judged not by literary rules , but by its power of making an im- pression upon the mind , such power as a ghastly story has , told by the chimney- corner ...
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... weather . God bless her light heart , and grant it may never know care or sorrow ! It's enough to cure spleen and melancholy only to look at her . " Your familiar pictures of home made me ex- tremely 80 WASHINGTON IRVING .
... weather . God bless her light heart , and grant it may never know care or sorrow ! It's enough to cure spleen and melancholy only to look at her . " Your familiar pictures of home made me ex- tremely 80 WASHINGTON IRVING .
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... light gossip of the town . It was reported that Brevoort and Dennis had kept a journal of their foreign travel , " which is so exquisitely humorous that Mrs. Cooper , on only looking at the first word , fell into a fit of laughing that ...
... light gossip of the town . It was reported that Brevoort and Dennis had kept a journal of their foreign travel , " which is so exquisitely humorous that Mrs. Cooper , on only looking at the first word , fell into a fit of laughing that ...
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... their overwhelming confederacy . If anything could place the Prince Regent in a more ridiculous light , it is Bonaparte su- In ing for his magnanimous protection . Every compliment paid to CHAPTER VI LIFE IN EUROPE: LITERARY ACTIVITY.
... their overwhelming confederacy . If anything could place the Prince Regent in a more ridiculous light , it is Bonaparte su- In ing for his magnanimous protection . Every compliment paid to CHAPTER VI LIFE IN EUROPE: LITERARY ACTIVITY.
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... of poetry , and the quali- ties which insured perpetuity to that of her hus- band . ' You can't persuade Campbell of that , ' said she . ' He is apt to undervalue his own works , and to consider his own little lights put LIFE IN EUROPE .
... of poetry , and the quali- ties which insured perpetuity to that of her hus- band . ' You can't persuade Campbell of that , ' said she . ' He is apt to undervalue his own works , and to consider his own little lights put LIFE IN EUROPE .
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