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His fall was the signal of defeat and victory: the Swedes gave way, the Dutch pressed forward; the former took to their heels, the latter hotly pursued. Some entered with them, pell-mell, through the sally-port; others stormed the bastion, and others scrambled over the curtain. Thus in a little while the fortress of Fort Christina, which, like another Troy, had stood a siege of full ten hours, was carried by assault, without the loss of a single man on either side. Victory, in the likeness of a gigantic ox-fly, sat perched upon the cocked hat of the gallant Stuyvesant; and it was declared by all the writers whom he hired to write the history of his expedition that on this memorable day he gained a sufficient quantity of glory to immortalize a dozen of the greatest heroes in Christendom!
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Sketch-Book, Irving set a kind of fashion in narrative essays, in brief stories of mingled humor and pathos, which was followed for half a century. He himself worked the same vein in
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Bracebridge Hall and
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Tales of a Traveller. And there is no doubt that some of the most fascinating of the minor sketches of Charles Dickens, such as the story of the Bagman's Uncle, are lineal descendants of, if they were not suggested by, Irving's
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Adventure of My Uncle, and the
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Bold Dragoon.
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Sketch-Book does not characterize the readers of this generation, and we have discovered that the pathos of its elaborated scenes is somewhat
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The sketches of
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Little Britain, and
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Westminster Abbey, and, indeed, that of
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Stratford-on-Avon, will for a long time retain their place in selections of
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but the
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Sketch-Book is only floated, as an original work, by two papers, the
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Rip Van Winkle and the
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Legend of Sleepy Hollow; that is to say by the use of the Dutch material, and the elaboration of the
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Knickerbocker Legend, which was the great achievement of Irving's life. This was broadened and deepened and illustrated by the several stories of the
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Money Diggers, of
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Wolfert Webber and
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Kidd the Pirate, in the
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Tales of a Traveller, and by
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Dolph Heyliger in
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Bracebridge Hall.