 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...  Washington Irving - Página 74por Charles Dudley Warner - 1881 - 304 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1860 - 624 páginas
...obvious meaning only, I have never read any thing so closely resembling the style of Dean Swift as the annals of Diedrich Knickerbocker. I have been...absolutely sore with laughing. I think, too, there arc passages which indicate that that the author possesses powers of a different kind, and has some... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1862 - 482 páginas
...obvious meaning only, I have never read any thing so closely resembling the style of Dean Swift, as the annals of Diedrich Knickerbocker. I have been...passages, which indicate that the author possesses powers of a different kind, and has some touches which remind me much of Sterne. I beg you will have... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1862 - 890 páginas
...says, | " I have been employed these few evenings in ¡ reading the annals of ' Deidrich Knickerbocker' aloud to Mrs. S. and two ladies who are our guests,...our sides have been absolutely sore with laughing." The next work of moment produced by Irving was the " Sketch-Book," written in London, and first published... | |
 | 1863 - 514 páginas
...and obvious meaning only, I have never read anything so closely resembling the style of Dean Swift as the annals of Diedrich Knickerbocker. I have been...laughing. I think, too, there are passages which indicate . . . powers of a different kind, and . . . touches which remind me much of Sterne." Seven years had... | |
 | William Harrison Ainsworth - 1863 - 514 páginas
...and obvious meaning only, I have never read anything so closely resembling the style of Dean Swift as the annals of Diedrich Knickerbocker. I have been...laughing. I think, too, there are passages which indicate . . . powers of a different kind, and . . . touches which remind me much of Sterne." Seven years had... | |
 | Pierre Munroe Irving - 1864 - 472 páginas
...have never read any thing so closely resembling the style of Dean Swift, as the annals of Dieclrich Knickerbocker. I have been employed these few evenings...passages, which indicate that the author possesses powers of a different kind, and has some touches which remind me much of Sterne. I beg you will have... | |
 | 1864 - 876 páginas
...have never read any thing," says Sir Walter Scott, "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. Scott and two ladies who are our guests, and our sides have been absolutely sore from laughing." The... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1866 - 484 páginas
...and obvious meaning only, I have never read anything so closely resembling the style of Dean Swift as the annals of Diedrich Knickerbocker. I have been...different kind, and has some touches which remind me much of Sterne/' ' Salmagundi/ which ^Mr. Irving had previously undertaken, in conjunction with Paulding,... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1867 - 550 páginas
...and obvious meaning only, I have never read anything so closely resembling the style of Dean Swift as the annals of Diedrich Knickerbocker. I have been...different kind, and has some touches which remind me much of Sterne." Salmagundi, which Mr. Irving had previously undertaken, in conjunction with Paulding,... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1867 - 562 páginas
...and obvious meaning only, I have never read anything so closely resembling the style of Dean Swift as the annals of Diedrich Knickerbocker. I have been...different kind, and has some touches which remind me much of Sterne." Salmagundi, which Mr. Irving had previously undertaken, in conjunction with Paulding,... | |
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