Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Knickerbocker” in chapter 5 of Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters:
...rested in American books.
The very word Knickerbocker is one evidence of the vitality of Irving's happy imaginings.
In 1809 he had invented a mythical Dutch historian of New York named Diedrich Knickerbocker and fathered upon him a witty parody of Dr. Mitchill's grave .
To read Irving's chapters today is to witness one of the rarest and most agreeable of phenomena, namely, the actual beginning of a leg...
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| Entity | Corpus | Doc | Corpus | Doc | |||
| † | Diedrich Knickerbocker | 62 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | |
| Knickerbocker | 72 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| John Knickerbocker | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| Herman Knickerbocker | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| George Knickerbocker | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| Diederick Knickerbocker | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
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