| Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1852 - 498 pages
...thanks for the uncommon degree of entertainment which I have received from the most excellently jocose history of New York. I am sensible that as a stranger...simple and obvious meaning only, I have never read anything so closely resembling the style of Dean Swift as the annals of Diedrich Knickerbocker. I have... | |
| Charles Samuel Stewart - Brazil - 1856 - 467 pages
...thanks for the uncommon degree of entertainment which I have received from the most excellently jocose history of New York. I am sensible that as a stranger...simple and obvious meaning only, I have never read anything so closely resembling the style of Dean Swift as the annals of Diedrich Knickerbocker. I have... | |
| Charles Samuel Stewart - Brazil - 1856 - 476 pages
...thanks for the uncommon degree of entertainment which I have received from the most excellently jocose history of New York. I am sensible that as a stranger...must lose much of the concealed satire of the piece, hat I must own, that looking at the simple and obvious meaning only, I have never read anything so... | |
| Charles Samuel Stewart - Brazil - 1856 - 468 pages
...history of New York. I am senBible that as a stranger to American parties and politics, I must loso mnch of the concealed satire of the piece, but I must own,...simple and obvious meaning only, I have never read anything so closely resembling the style of Dean Swift as the annals of Diedrich Knickerbocker. I have... | |
| Evert Augustus Duyckinck - Authors, American - 1860 - 76 pages
...thanks for the uncommon degree of entertainment which I have received from the most excellently jocose history of New York. I am sensible that, as a stranger...have never read any thing so closely resembling the stilts of Dean Swift as the annals of IDiedrich Knickerbocker. I have been employed these few evenings... | |
| Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1860 - 82 pages
...thanks for the uncommon degree of entertainment which I have received from the most excellently jocose history of New York. I am sensible that, as a stranger...have never read any thing so closely resembling the stile of Dean Swift as the annals of Diedrich Knickerbocker. I have been employed these few evenings... | |
| Edward Everett - 1860 - 28 pages
...degree of entertainment which I have received from the most excellently jocose history of New York. lam sensible that, as a stranger to American parties and...simple and obvious meaning only, I have never read anything so closely resembling the style of Dean Swift as the annals of Diedrich Knickerbocker. I have... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1860 - 624 pages
...thanks for the uncommon degree of entertainment which I have received from the most excellently jocose history of New- York. I am sensible that as a stranger to American parties and polities, I must lose much of the concealed satire of the piece ; but I must own that, looking at the... | |
| Pierre Munroe Irving - Authors, American - 1862 - 408 pages
...thanks for the uncommon degree of entertainment which I have received from the most excellently jocose History of New York. I am sensible that, as a stranger...that looking at the simple and obvious meaning only, 1 have never read anything so closely resembling the style of Dean Swift, as the annals of Diedrich... | |
| William Harrison Ainsworth - 1863 - 514 pages
...merits. " I am sensible," he says, in a letter to j; iovi.it. who had presented him with a copy in 1813, "that, as a stranger to American parties and politics,...simple and obvious meaning only, I have never read anything so closely resembling the style of Dean Swift as the annals of Diedrich Knickerbocker. I have... | |
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