The Biglow Papers, Band 1Houghton, Mifflin, 1885 - 198 Seiten |
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... time when , if ever , there were true Englishmen . John Bull has suf- fered the idea of the Invisible to be very much fattened out of him . Jonathan is con- scious still that he lives in the world of the 24 INTRODUCTION .
... time when , if ever , there were true Englishmen . John Bull has suf- fered the idea of the Invisible to be very much fattened out of him . Jonathan is con- scious still that he lives in the world of the 24 INTRODUCTION .
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James Russell Lowell. scious still that he lives in the world of the Unseen as well as of the Seen . To move John , you must make your fulcrum of solid beef and pudding ; an abstract idea will do for Jonathan . TO THE INDULGENT READER ...
James Russell Lowell. scious still that he lives in the world of the Unseen as well as of the Seen . To move John , you must make your fulcrum of solid beef and pudding ; an abstract idea will do for Jonathan . TO THE INDULGENT READER ...
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... live in hope her soon to join ; Her earthlye yeeres were forty and nine . " From Gravestone in Pekussett , North Parish . This is unquestionably the same John who afterward ( 1711 ) married Tabitha Hagg or Ragg . But if this were the ...
... live in hope her soon to join ; Her earthlye yeeres were forty and nine . " From Gravestone in Pekussett , North Parish . This is unquestionably the same John who afterward ( 1711 ) married Tabitha Hagg or Ragg . But if this were the ...
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... live , and say shooters as well as fishers of men ? I do much fear that we shall be seized now and then with a Protestant fervor , as long as we have neighbor Naboths whose wallowings in Papistical mire excite our horror in exact ...
... live , and say shooters as well as fishers of men ? I do much fear that we shall be seized now and then with a Protestant fervor , as long as we have neighbor Naboths whose wallowings in Papistical mire excite our horror in exact ...
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... live on Uncle Sam's pus , So they've nothin ' to du with ' t fer better or wus ; It's the folks thet air kind o ' brought up to de- pend on ' t Thet hev any consarn in ' t , and thet is the end on ' t . Now here wuz New England ahevin ...
... live on Uncle Sam's pus , So they've nothin ' to du with ' t fer better or wus ; It's the folks thet air kind o ' brought up to de- pend on ' t Thet hev any consarn in ' t , and thet is the end on ' t . Now here wuz New England ahevin ...
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Seite 100 - I mean in preyin' till one busts On wut the party chooses, An' in convartin" public trusts To very privit uses. I du believe hard coin the stuff Fer 'lectioneers to spout on ; The people 's oilers soft enough To make hard money out on ; Dear Uncle Sam pervides fer his, An...
Seite 55 - Is our dooty in this fix,— They'd ha' done 't ez quick ez winkin' In the days o' seventy-six. Clang the bells in every steeple; Call all true men to disown The tradoocers of our people, The enslavers o...
Seite 52 - To abuse ye, an' to scorn ye, An' to plunder ye like sin. Ain't it cute to see a Yankee Take sech everlastin' pains, All to git the Devil's thankee Helpin' on 'em weld their chains ? Wy, it's jest ez clear ez figgers, Clear ez one an' one make two, Chaps thet make black slaves o' niggers Want to make wite slaves o
Seite 90 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
Seite 75 - An' into nobody's tater-patch pokes; But John P. Robinson he Sez he wun't vote fer Guvener B. My ! ain't it terrible? Wut shall we du? We can't never choose him o...
Seite 113 - I stan' upon the Constitution, Ez preudunt statesmun say, who 've planned A way to git the most profusion O' chances ez to ware they 'll stand. Ez f er the war, I go agin it, — I mean to say I kind o...
Seite 40 - There warn't no stoves (tell comfort died) To bake ye to a puddin'. The wa'nut logs shot sparkles out Towards the pootiest, bless her, An' leetle flames danced all about The chiny on the dresser.
Seite 76 - We were gittin on nicely up here to our village, With good old idees o' wut's right an' wut aint, We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an pillage, An thet eppyletts worn't the best mark of a saint; But John P. Robinson he Sez this kind o
Seite 22 - A person familiar with the dialect of certain portions of Massachusetts will not fail to recognize, in ordinary discourse, many words now noted in English vocabularies as archaic, the greater part of which were in common use about the time of the King James translation of the Bible. Shakespeare stands less in need of a glossary to most New Englanders than to many a native of the Old Country.
Seite 108 - But keep all your spare breath fer coolin' your broth, Fer I oilers hev strove (at least thet 's my impression) To make cussed free with the rights o' the North," Sez John C. Calhoun, sez he ; — "Yes," sez Davis o' Miss., " The perfection o' bliss Is in skinnin' thet same old coon,