Washington IrvingHoughton, Mifflin, 1884 - 304 páginas |
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... social worthies had jolly suppers at the humble taverns of the city , and wilder revelries in an old country house on the Passaic , which is celebrated in the " Sal- magundi " papers as Cockloft Hall . We are reminded of the change of ...
... social worthies had jolly suppers at the humble taverns of the city , and wilder revelries in an old country house on the Passaic , which is celebrated in the " Sal- magundi " papers as Cockloft Hall . We are reminded of the change of ...
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... social sweets , like a man born to leisure and seemingly idle observa- tion of life . It was in the midst of these social suc- cesses , and just after his admission to the bar , that Irving gave the first decided evi- dence of the ...
... social sweets , like a man born to leisure and seemingly idle observa- tion of life . It was in the midst of these social suc- cesses , and just after his admission to the bar , that Irving gave the first decided evi- dence of the ...
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... social distinction . He was then , as always , greatly influenced by his surround- ings . These were unfavorable to literary pursuits . Politics was the attractive field for preferment and distinction ; and it is more than probable that ...
... social distinction . He was then , as always , greatly influenced by his surround- ings . These were unfavorable to literary pursuits . Politics was the attractive field for preferment and distinction ; and it is more than probable that ...
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... social recognition . As late as 1818 , in an address before the Historical Society , Mr. Gulian C. Verplanck , Irving's friend , showed the deep irritation the book had caused , by severe strictures on it as a 66 coarse caricature ...
... social recognition . As late as 1818 , in an address before the Historical Society , Mr. Gulian C. Verplanck , Irving's friend , showed the deep irritation the book had caused , by severe strictures on it as a 66 coarse caricature ...
Página 74
... social realm which , with all its whimsical conceit , has almost historical so- lidity . The Knickerbocker pantheon is al- most as real as that of Olympus . The in- troductory chapters are of that elephantine facetiousness which pleased ...
... social realm which , with all its whimsical conceit , has almost historical so- lidity . The Knickerbocker pantheon is al- most as real as that of Olympus . The in- troductory chapters are of that elephantine facetiousness which pleased ...
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