Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Irving” in chapter 5 of Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters:

...at other eighteenth century tradition, the conversation of the select circle. Its accents were heard in Steele and Addison and were continued in Goldsmith, Sterne, Cowper, and Charles Lamb. Among Irving 's successors, George William Curtis and Charles Dudley Warner and William Dean Howells have been masters of it likewise. It is mellow human talk, delicate, regardful, capable of exquisite modulatio...
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Entity Corpus Doc Corpus Doc  
† Washington Irving 775 56 3 0 0 user votes
Irving 111 0 19 0 0 user votes
William Irving 22 0 6 0 0 user votes
T. Irving 18 0 0 0 0 user votes
John Treat Irving 17 0 1 0 0 user votes
P. M. Irving 14 14 0 0 0 user votes
Edward Irving 12 0 0 0 0 user votes
Jim Irving 12 0 0 0 0 user votes
Harry P. Irving 10 0 0 0 0 user votes
Henry Irving 9 0 1 0 0 user votes
William A. Irving 9 0 1 0 0 user votes
James M. D. Irving 8 0 0 0 0 user votes
John Irving 8 0 0 0 0 user votes
W. Irving 7 0 1 0 0 user votes
Elijah Irving 6 0 0 0 0 user votes
J. Irving 6 0 0 0 0 user votes
F. D. Irving 5 0 5 0 0 user votes
Peter Irving 4 0 0 0 0 user votes
Philip H. Irving 4 0 0 0 0 user votes
Sir Henry Irving 4 0 0 0 0 user votes
Armilius Irving 3 0 1 0 0 user votes
C. H. Irving 3 0 1 0 0 user votes
Charles Irving 3 0 1 0 0 user votes
John B. Irving 3 0 1 0 0 user votes
Joseph K. Irving 3 0 1 0 0 user votes
C. Irving 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
David Irving 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
Ebenezer Irving 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
H. P. Irving 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
J. H. Irving 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
J. T. Irving 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
James Irving 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
Joe Irving 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
John T. Irving 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
Mary Irving 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
Oscar Irving 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
Pierre Irving 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
Pierre M. Irving 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
Samuel Irving 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
Sarah S. Irving 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
Thomas Irving 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
W. A. Irving 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
W. D. Irving 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
Charles R. Irving 1 0 1 0 0 user votes
Henrietta Irving 1 0 1 0 0 user votes
William J. Irving 1 0 1 0 0 user votes

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