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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... 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 on a tempestuous night ...
... 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 on a tempestuous night ...
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... seen , who basked in the sunshine of his bounty while in power , who now skulked from his side , and even mingled among the most clamorous of his I bid him farewell with a heavy heart , and he expressed with peculiar warmth and feeling ...
... seen , who basked in the sunshine of his bounty while in power , who now skulked from his side , and even mingled among the most clamorous of his I bid him farewell with a heavy heart , and he expressed with peculiar warmth and feeling ...
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... seen traveling north in the Albany stage ; that his name was Diedrich Knickerbocker ; that he went away owing his landlord ; and that he left behind a very curious kind of a writ- ten book , which would be sold to pay his bills if he ...
... seen traveling north in the Albany stage ; that his name was Diedrich Knickerbocker ; that he went away owing his landlord ; and that he left behind a very curious kind of a writ- ten book , which would be sold to pay his bills if he ...
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... seen considerable of the world , but I am sadly afraid I have not grown wiser thereby , inasmuch as it has generally been asserted by the sages of every age that wisdom consists in a knowledge of the wickedness of mankind , and the ...
... seen considerable of the world , but I am sadly afraid I have not grown wiser thereby , inasmuch as it has generally been asserted by the sages of every age that wisdom consists in a knowledge of the wickedness of mankind , and the ...
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... seen anything of thes since your depart- ure ; business and an amazing want of in- clination have kept me from their threshold . Jim , that sly poacher , however , prowls about there , and vitrifies his heart by the furnace of their ...
... seen anything of thes since your depart- ure ; business and an amazing want of in- clination have kept me from their threshold . Jim , that sly poacher , however , prowls about there , and vitrifies his heart by the furnace of their ...
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