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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... the publication of " Alcuin : a Dia- logue on the Rights of Women . " This and the romances which followed it show the powerful influence upon him of the school of 99 fiction of William Godwin , and the move- ment 12 WASHINGTON IRVING .
... the publication of " Alcuin : a Dia- logue on the Rights of Women . " This and the romances which followed it show the powerful influence upon him of the school of 99 fiction of William Godwin , and the move- ment 12 WASHINGTON IRVING .
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Charles Dudley Warner. 99 fiction of William Godwin , and the move- ment of emancipation of which Mary Woll- stonecraft was the leader . The period of social and political ferment during which " Alcuin was put forth was not unlike that ...
Charles Dudley Warner. 99 fiction of William Godwin , and the move- ment of emancipation of which Mary Woll- stonecraft was the leader . The period of social and political ferment during which " Alcuin was put forth was not unlike that ...
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... ment and true tenderness of Irving to war- rant the sentimental gush of his followers , who missed his corrective humor as com- pletely as they failed to catch his literary art . Whatever note of localism there was in the Knickerbocker ...
... ment and true tenderness of Irving to war- rant the sentimental gush of his followers , who missed his corrective humor as com- pletely as they failed to catch his literary art . Whatever note of localism there was in the Knickerbocker ...
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... his mind would not take hold of the study ; he anticipated nothing from legal pursuits or political employ- ment ; he was secretly writing the humor- ous history , but was altogether in a low- spirited THE KNICKERBOCKER PERIOD . 61.
... his mind would not take hold of the study ; he anticipated nothing from legal pursuits or political employ- ment ; he was secretly writing the humor- ous history , but was altogether in a low- spirited THE KNICKERBOCKER PERIOD . 61.
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... ment of the History was a humorous and skillful piece of advertising . Notices ap- peared in the newspapers of the disappear- ance from his lodging of " a small , elderly gentleman , dressed in an old black coat and cocked hat , by the ...
... ment of the History was a humorous and skillful piece of advertising . Notices ap- peared in the newspapers of the disappear- ance from his lodging of " a small , elderly gentleman , dressed in an old black coat and cocked hat , by the ...
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