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... Irvingiana: A Memorial of Washington Irving - Stran viiiavtor: Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1860 - 64 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
| Charles Dudley Warner - 1882 - 354 strani
...never," he wrote, " read anything so closely resembling the style of Dean Swift as the annals of Diedrich Knickerbocker. I have been employed these few evenings...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 strani
...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...passages which indicate that the author possesses power of a different kind, and has some touches which remind me much of Sterne." His works, like those... | |
| Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 614 strani
...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...passages which indicate that the author possesses power of a different kind, and has some touches which remind me much of Sterne." His works, like those... | |
| Martha Joanna Lamb - 1896 - 638 strani
...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...passages which indicate that the author possesses power of a different kind, and has some touches which remind me of Sterne. I beg you will have the... | |
| Martha Joanna Lamb - 1896 - 628 strani
...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,... | |
| Sherwin Cody - 1899 - 268 strani
...which he said, "I have been employed these few evenings in reading the annals of Diedrich Knickerbocker aloud to Mrs. S. and two ladies who are our guests,...which indicate that the author possesses powers of a different kind. " Irving, too, had been a great admirer of Scott's " Lady of the Lake." Campbell gave... | |
| Washington Irving - 1900 - 416 strani
...anything so closely resembling the style of Dean Swift as the annals of Diedrich Knickerbocker. ... I think, too, there are passages which indicate that the author possesses power of a different kind, and has some touches which remind me of Sterne." Irviug's affiliations were... | |
| Marshall Everett - 1901 - 568 strani
..."I have never read anything so closely resembling the style of Dean Swith as the annals of Diedrich Knickerbocker. I have been employed these few evenings...passages which indicate that the author possesses power of a different kind, and has some touches which remind me of Sterne." This book gave to New York,... | |
| Henry Walcott Boynton - 1901 - 132 strani
...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...which indicate that the author possesses powers of a different kind, and has some touches which remind me much of Sterne." The work in its completed form... | |
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