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29 de jun. de 2024 · Irving satirizes the term "friend in need" to imply that Tom is sure to be waiting to provide a loan to people in need of financial aid, wanting to trick them into debt. Irving uses irony to describe Tom's abduction by the devil. Tom, who has never kept his word in his entire life, is forced to keep his promise to the devil and give up his soul.
Hace 3 días · The name Irving is a boy's name of Scottish origin meaning "green river, sea friend". It might be surprising to know that this name originated as a Scottish place and surname name, as in Washington Irving. It became a popular choice for first-generation Jewish-American boys, such as best-selling authors Irving Stone and Irving Wallace, whose ...
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Hace 4 días · I sat for some time lost in that kind of reverie which a strain of music is apt sometimes to inspire: the shadows of evening were gradually thickening round me; the monuments began to cast deeper and deeper gloom; and the distant clock again gave token of the slowly waning day. I rose and prepared to leave the abbey.
9 de jul. de 2024 · Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He is best known for his short stories "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820), both of which appear in his collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
Hace 4 días · L'envoy - Prose. Go, little booke, God send thee good passage, And specially let this be thy prayere, Unto them all that thee will read or hear, Where thou art wrong, after their help to call, Thee to correct in any part or all. - CHAUCER'S Belle Dame sans Mercie. In concluding a second volume of the Sketch Book the Author cannot but express ...
6 de jul. de 2024 · But what a time would the quiet, worthy men have, among these rake-hells, who would delight to astound them with the most extravagant gunpowder tales, embroidered with all kinds of foreign oaths; clink the can with them; pledge them in deep potations; bawl drinking songs in their ears; and occasionally fire pistols over their heads, or under the table, and then laugh in their faces, and ask ...
