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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... lived literary periodicals which were nevertheless useful in their day : " The Monthly Magazine and American Re- view , " begun in New York in the spring of 1798 , and ending in the autumn of 1800 ; and “ The Literary Magazine and ...
... lived literary periodicals which were nevertheless useful in their day : " The Monthly Magazine and American Re- view , " begun in New York in the spring of 1798 , and ending in the autumn of 1800 ; and “ The Literary Magazine and ...
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... in 1800 he made his first voyage up the Hudson , the beauties of which he was the first to celebrate , on a visit to a married sister who lived in the Mohawk Valley . In 1802 he became a law clerk 28 WASHINGTON IRVING .
... in 1800 he made his first voyage up the Hudson , the beauties of which he was the first to celebrate , on a visit to a married sister who lived in the Mohawk Valley . In 1802 he became a law clerk 28 WASHINGTON IRVING .
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... lived in wretched cabins and often in cav- erns , amid filth and vermin . " God knows my mind never suffered so much as on this journey , " he writes , " when I saw such scenes of want and misery continually be fore me , without the ...
... lived in wretched cabins and often in cav- erns , amid filth and vermin . " God knows my mind never suffered so much as on this journey , " he writes , " when I saw such scenes of want and misery continually be fore me , without the ...
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... lived with my brother George ten years . George says he would not part with him . for all Tripoli , ' 9.99 etc. It was always difficult for Irving , in those days , to escape from the genial blandish- ments of Baltimore and Philadelphia ...
... lived with my brother George ten years . George says he would not part with him . for all Tripoli , ' 9.99 etc. It was always difficult for Irving , in those days , to escape from the genial blandish- ments of Baltimore and Philadelphia ...
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... lived very independently on his pension and some other small annual sums , amounting in all to about £ 40 . His great hobby , and indeed the business of his life , was to angle . I found he had read Isaac Walton very attentively ; he ...
... lived very independently on his pension and some other small annual sums , amounting in all to about £ 40 . His great hobby , and indeed the business of his life , was to angle . I found he had read Isaac Walton very attentively ; he ...
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