The Biglow Papers, Band 1Houghton, Mifflin, 1885 - 198 Seiten |
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... present Yan- kee , full of expedients , half - master of all trades , inventive in all but the beautiful , full of shifts , not yet capable of comfort , armed at all points against the old enemy , Hunger , longanimous , good at patching ...
... present Yan- kee , full of expedients , half - master of all trades , inventive in all but the beautiful , full of shifts , not yet capable of comfort , armed at all points against the old enemy , Hunger , longanimous , good at patching ...
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... presents himself as a quite inexplicable Sphinx - riddle . A rich poverty of Latin and Greek , — so far is clear enough ... present that eminent man with a copy of the " Biglow Papers . " The next morn- ing he received the following note ...
... presents himself as a quite inexplicable Sphinx - riddle . A rich poverty of Latin and Greek , — so far is clear enough ... present that eminent man with a copy of the " Biglow Papers . " The next morn- ing he received the following note ...
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... present volume . In this place I will barely remark , that I have sometimes noticed in the unlanguaged prattlings of infants a fondness for alliteration , assonance , and even rhyme , in which natural predisposition we may trace the ...
... present volume . In this place I will barely remark , that I have sometimes noticed in the unlanguaged prattlings of infants a fondness for alliteration , assonance , and even rhyme , in which natural predisposition we may trace the ...
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... than that of the Alexandrian . Mr. Biglow , in the present instance , has only made use of a license assumed by all the historians of antiquity , who put into the mouths of various characters such words as seem to them.
... than that of the Alexandrian . Mr. Biglow , in the present instance , has only made use of a license assumed by all the historians of antiquity , who put into the mouths of various characters such words as seem to them.
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... present one which boils and eddies all around him at the caucus , the ratification meeting , and the polls ! Who taught him to exhort men to prepare for eternity , as for some future era of which the present forms no integral part ? The ...
... present one which boils and eddies all around him at the caucus , the ratification meeting , and the polls ! Who taught him to exhort men to prepare for eternity , as for some future era of which the present forms no integral part ? The ...
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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,