Dreams and Reveries of a Quiet Man: Consisting of the Little Genius, and Other Essays, Volume 2J. & J. Harper, 1832 |
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... Washington Irving as the perfection of refined and elegant writing . He will scarce detect a word out of place a deficiency , or a superfluity . He will find imagination chastened by taste - humor purified by delicacy , and blended with ...
... Washington Irving as the perfection of refined and elegant writing . He will scarce detect a word out of place a deficiency , or a superfluity . He will find imagination chastened by taste - humor purified by delicacy , and blended with ...
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... Washington Irving . I fancy I see her pause on the summit of a hill to catch the effect of a fine land- scape , to contemplate the coloring of the sky , trace the winding of the silvery river , or the outline of the blue aerial mountain ...
... Washington Irving . I fancy I see her pause on the summit of a hill to catch the effect of a fine land- scape , to contemplate the coloring of the sky , trace the winding of the silvery river , or the outline of the blue aerial mountain ...
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