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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... . BOYHOOD . 21 CHAPTER III . ' MANHOOD : FIRST VISIT TO EUROPE . 31 CHAPTER IV . SOCIETY AND " SALMAGUNDI " 43 CHAPTER V. THE KNICKERBOCKER PERIOD 58 CHAPTER VI . LIFE IN EUROPE : LITERARY ACTIVITY . 94 IN SPAIN CHAPTER VII . 218004 • 141.
... . BOYHOOD . 21 CHAPTER III . ' MANHOOD : FIRST VISIT TO EUROPE . 31 CHAPTER IV . SOCIETY AND " SALMAGUNDI " 43 CHAPTER V. THE KNICKERBOCKER PERIOD 58 CHAPTER VI . LIFE IN EUROPE : LITERARY ACTIVITY . 94 IN SPAIN CHAPTER VII . 218004 • 141.
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... period probably no citizen of the Republic , except the Father of his Country , had so wide a reputation as his namesake , Washington Irving . It is time to inquire what basis this great reputation had in enduring qualities , what ...
... period probably no citizen of the Republic , except the Father of his Country , had so wide a reputation as his namesake , Washington Irving . It is time to inquire what basis this great reputation had in enduring qualities , what ...
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... periods of varying dura- tion when their names are revered and their books are not read . The growth , not to say the fluctuation , of Shakespeare's popu- larity is one of the curiosities of literary history . Worshiped by his ...
... periods of varying dura- tion when their names are revered and their books are not read . The growth , not to say the fluctuation , of Shakespeare's popu- larity is one of the curiosities of literary history . Worshiped by his ...
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... period . And it has been to some extent the fashion to damn with faint admiration the pioneer if not the creator of ... periods , more or less marked , in our litera- ture . I do not include in it the works of writers either born in ...
... period . And it has been to some extent the fashion to damn with faint admiration the pioneer if not the creator of ... periods , more or less marked , in our litera- ture . I do not include in it the works of writers either born in ...
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... period of social and political ferment during which " Alcuin was put forth was not unlike that which may be said to have reached its height in extravagance and millennial expec- tation in 1847-48 . In " Alcuin " are antici- pated most ...
... period of social and political ferment during which " Alcuin was put forth was not unlike that which may be said to have reached its height in extravagance and millennial expec- tation in 1847-48 . In " Alcuin " are antici- pated most ...
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