Washington IrvingHoughton, Mifflin, 1881 - 304 páginas |
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... wrote upon them with vigor and sagacity . He was the editor of two short - 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 ...
... wrote upon them with vigor and sagacity . He was the editor of two short - 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 ...
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... astonished reply . " He wrote the Sketch - Book . " " It was at the house of Baron von Humboldt , the Prus- sian minister , that Irving first met Madame de Staël , who was then enjoying the celeb- rity 38 WASHINGTON IRVING .
... astonished reply . " He wrote the Sketch - Book . " " It was at the house of Baron von Humboldt , the Prus- sian minister , that Irving first met Madame de Staël , who was then enjoying the celeb- rity 38 WASHINGTON IRVING .
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... wrote that he had found in the pocket an emblem of love , a mysterious locket of hair in the shape of a heart . The history of it is curious when Irving sojourned at Genoa he was much taken with the beauty of a young Italian lady , the ...
... wrote that he had found in the pocket an emblem of love , a mysterious locket of hair in the shape of a heart . The history of it is curious when Irving sojourned at Genoa he was much taken with the beauty of a young Italian lady , the ...
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... responsibilities , defeated his plans of domestic happiness in marriage . It was in this same year , 1816 , when the fortunes of the firm were daily becoming more dismal , that he wrote to Brevoort , upon 70 WASHINGTON IRVING .
... responsibilities , defeated his plans of domestic happiness in marriage . It was in this same year , 1816 , when the fortunes of the firm were daily becoming more dismal , that he wrote to Brevoort , upon 70 WASHINGTON IRVING .
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Charles Dudley Warner. more dismal , that he wrote to Brevoort , upon the report that the latter was likely to remain a bachelor : " We are all selfish beings . Fortune by her tardy favors and capricious freaks seems to discourage all my ...
Charles Dudley Warner. more dismal , that he wrote to Brevoort , upon the report that the latter was likely to remain a bachelor : " We are all selfish beings . Fortune by her tardy favors and capricious freaks seems to discourage all my ...
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Página 230 - ... pairing cosily in dishes, like snug married couples, with a decent competency of onion sauce. In the porkers he saw carved out the future sleek side of bacon and juicy, relishing ham ; not a turkey but he beheld daintily trussed up, with its gizzard under its wing, and, peradventure, a necklace of savory sausages...
Página 228 - Among the musical disciples who assembled, one evening in each week, to receive his instructions in psalmody, was Katrina Van Tassel, the daughter and only child of a substantial Dutch farmer. She was a blooming lass of fresh eighteen; plump as a partridge; ripe and melting and rosy cheeked as one of her father's peaches, and universally famed, not merely for her beauty, but her vast expectations.
Página 74 - I have never read anything so closely resembling the style of Dean Swift, as the annals of Diedrich Knickerbocker. I have been employed these few evenings in reading them aloud to Mrs. S. and two ladies who are our guests, and our sides have been absolutely sore with laughing. I think, too, there are passages, which indicate that the author possesses powers of a different kind, and has some touches which remind me much of Sterne.
Página 230 - ... fretting about it, like ill-tempered housewives, with their peevish discontented cry. Before the barn door strutted the gallant cock, that pattern of a husband, a warrior, and a fine gentleman, clapping his burnished wings, and crowing in the pride and gladness of his heart — sometimes tearing up the earth with his feet, and then generously calling his ever-hungry family of wives and children to enjoy the rich morsel which he had discovered.
Página 202 - This was clearly accounted for by his adherents, who affirmed that he always conceived every subject on so comprehensive a scale, that he had not room in his head to turn it over and examine both sides of it ; so that he always remained in doubt, merely in consequence of the astonishing magnitude of his ideas...
Página 254 - Who can do justice to a moonlight night in such a climate and such a place?
Página 205 - Wouter would shut his eyes for full two hours at a time that he might not be disturbed by external objects; and at such times the internal commotion of his mind was evinced by certain regular guttural sounds which, his admirers declared, were merely the noise of conflict made by his contending doubts and opinions.
Página 228 - ... in his eyes, more especially after he had visited her in her paternal mansion. Old Baltus Van Tassel was a perfect picture of a thriving, contented, liberal-hearted farmer. He seldom, it is true, sent either his eyes or his thoughts beyond the boundaries of his own farm ; but within those everything was snug, happy, and well-conditioned.
Página 202 - ... he seldom said a foolish thing. So invincible was his gravity that he was never known to laugh or even to smile through the whole course of a long and prosperous life . Nay if a joke were uttered in his presence, that set light-minded hearers in a roar, it was observed to throw him into a state of perplexity. Sometimes he would deign to inquire into the matter, and when, after much explanation, the joke was made as plain as a pikestaff, he would continue to smoke his pipe in silence, and at length,...
Página 229 - Hard by the farmhouse was a vast barn, that might have served for a church; every window and crevice of which seemed bursting forth with the treasures of the farm; the flail was busily resounding within it from morning to night ; swallows and martins skimmed twittering about the eaves ; and rows of pigeons, some with one eye turned up, as if watching the weather, some with their heads under their wings, or buried in their bosoms, and others swelling, and cooing, and bowing about their dames, were...