The Life of Washington Irving, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1935 - 484 pages |
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Page 107
... writing was usually revision , for one who had previously composed only in periods of protracted effort balanced by equally prolonged spaces of idleness . Such slavery fulfilled his worst fears ; it tried him to distraction . For the ...
... writing was usually revision , for one who had previously composed only in periods of protracted effort balanced by equally prolonged spaces of idleness . Such slavery fulfilled his worst fears ; it tried him to distraction . For the ...
Page 204
... writing . Recalling Cooper's contempt , Poe's scornful wish to revaluate him , and Laughton Osborn's satire on " Dame Irving , " we incline to think that his roots did not reach deeply into the spirits of sound writers . This is not so ...
... writing . Recalling Cooper's contempt , Poe's scornful wish to revaluate him , and Laughton Osborn's satire on " Dame Irving , " we incline to think that his roots did not reach deeply into the spirits of sound writers . This is not so ...
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... writer , a state of mind recurring at intervals throughout his life , was never less at- tractive than in these years . Over and over he confessed that all writing was irksome . He was a very tired man , and was living , he said , at ...
... writer , a state of mind recurring at intervals throughout his life , was never less at- tractive than in these years . Over and over he confessed that all writing was irksome . He was a very tired man , and was living , he said , at ...
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REESTABLISHMENT IN AMERICA 18321837 | 27 |
CITIZEN OF THE REPUBLIC 18321837 | 48 |
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