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
| Thomas Budd Shaw - 1878 - 388 páginas
...I have never read anything so closely resembling the style of Dean Swift as the annals of Dicdrich Knickerbocker. I have been employed these few evenings...in reading them aloud to Mrs. S. and two ladies who arc our guests, and our sides have been absolutely sore with laugh ing. I think, too, there are passages... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - 1881 - 336 páginas
...Walter Scott. "I have never," he wrote, "read anything so closely resembling the style of Dean. Swift as the annals of Diedrich Knickerbocker. I have been...kind, and has some touches which remind me of Sterne." The book is indeed an original creation, and one of the few masterpieces of humor. In spontaneity,... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - 1881 - 342 páginas
...Scott. " I have never," he wrote, " read anything so closely resembling the style of Dean Swift as the annals of Diedrich Knickerbocker. I have been...our guests, and our sides have been absolutely sore Avith laughing. I think, too, there are passages which indicate that the author possesses power of... | |
| Washington Irving - 1869 - 432 páginas
...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...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... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - 1882 - 354 páginas
...Scott. " I have never," he wrote, " read anything so closely resembling the style of Dean Swift as the annals of Diedrich Knickerbocker. I have been...to Mrs. S. and two ladies who are our guests, and ouv sides have been absolutely sore with laughing. I think, too, there are passages which indicate... | |
| Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 648 páginas
...I have never read anything so closely resembling the style of Dean Swift as the annals of Dietrich Knickerbocker. I have been employed these few evenings...different kind, and has some touches which remind me much of Sterne." His works, like those of his contemporary, Cooper, " improved American society and... | |
| Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 614 páginas
...I have never read anything so closely resembling the style of Dean Swift as the annals of Dietrich Knickerbocker. I have been employed these few evenings...different kind, and has some touches which remind me much of Sterne." His works, like those of his contemporary, Cooper, " improved American society and... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - 1892 - 336 páginas
...never," he wrote, " read anything so closely resembling the style of Dean Swift as the annals of Diedriuh Knickerbocker. I have been employed these few evenings...kind, and has some touches which remind me of Sterne." The book is indeed an original creation, and one of the few masterpieces of humor. In spontaneity,... | |
| Martha Joanna Lamb - 1896 - 638 páginas
...and obvious meaning only, I have never seen 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. Scott and two ladies who are our guests, and our sides have been absolutely sore with laughing. I think,... | |
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