Masterpieces of American Literature: Franklin, Irving, Bryant, Webster, Everett, Longfellow, Hawthorne, Whittier, Emerson, Holmes, Lowell, Thoreau, O'Reilly : with Biographical Sketches and PortraitsHoughton, Mifflin, 1891 - 462 pages |
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... village to which he returned . This story , which was published with others in 1800 , may very likely have been the immediate suggestion to Irving , who has taken nearly the same framework . The humorous additions which he has made ...
... village to which he returned . This story , which was published with others in 1800 , may very likely have been the immediate suggestion to Irving , who has taken nearly the same framework . The humorous additions which he has made ...
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... village , whose shingle - roofs gleam among the trees , just where the blue tints of the upland melt away into the fresh green of the nearer landscape . It is a little village of great antiquity , having been founded by some of the ...
... village , whose shingle - roofs gleam among the trees , just where the blue tints of the upland melt away into the fresh green of the nearer landscape . It is a little village of great antiquity , having been founded by some of the ...
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... village , and in one of these very houses ( which , to tell the precise truth , was sadly time - worn and weather - beaten ) , there lived many years since , while the country was yet a province of Great Britain , a simple , good ...
... village , and in one of these very houses ( which , to tell the precise truth , was sadly time - worn and weather - beaten ) , there lived many years since , while the country was yet a province of Great Britain , a simple , good ...
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... village , too , would shout with joy whenever he approached . He assisted at their sports , made their playthings , taught them to fly kites and shoot marbles , and told them long stories of ghosts , witches , and Indians . Whenever he ...
... village , too , would shout with joy whenever he approached . He assisted at their sports , made their playthings , taught them to fly kites and shoot marbles , and told them long stories of ghosts , witches , and Indians . Whenever he ...
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... village ; which held its sessions on a bench before a small inn , designated by a rubicund portrait of His Majesty George the Third . Here they used to sit in the shade through a long lazy summer's day , talking listlessly over village ...
... village ; which held its sessions on a bench before a small inn , designated by a rubicund portrait of His Majesty George the Third . Here they used to sit in the shade through a long lazy summer's day , talking listlessly over village ...
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