The Life of Washington Irving, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1935 - 484 pages |
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Page 121
... less the politician's mind than the ob- server's . Everyone was less interesting than Tom Moore . The young Queen Victoria , before whom he at once made an obei- sance , did not excite him . She is [ he said ] certainly quite low in ...
... less the politician's mind than the ob- server's . Everyone was less interesting than Tom Moore . The young Queen Victoria , before whom he at once made an obei- sance , did not excite him . She is [ he said ] certainly quite low in ...
Page 176
... less disciplinarian , boasting on his deathbed that he had no ene- mies ; he had executed them all , to a man . Less interesting in personality than Espartero , he was , presumably , the stronger character . Irving's contemporary ...
... less disciplinarian , boasting on his deathbed that he had no ene- mies ; he had executed them all , to a man . Less interesting in personality than Espartero , he was , presumably , the stronger character . Irving's contemporary ...
Page 295
... less tempera- mental than the literary critics of the New - York Mirror and the West- minster Review . His detractors should have been informed , for example , of the imme- diate popularity of Tales of a Traveller , especially of Part I ...
... less tempera- mental than the literary critics of the New - York Mirror and the West- minster Review . His detractors should have been informed , for example , of the imme- diate popularity of Tales of a Traveller , especially of Part I ...
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