The Biglow Papers, Band 1Houghton, Mifflin, 1885 - 198 Seiten |
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... volume , and ushered into the august presence of the reading public by myself . So little are we short - sighted mortals able to predict the event ! I confess that there is to me a quite new satisfaction in being associated ( though ...
... volume , and ushered into the august presence of the reading public by myself . So little are we short - sighted mortals able to predict the event ! I confess that there is to me a quite new satisfaction in being associated ( though ...
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... volumes of Pope and Goldsmith , to the assiduous study of which he promised to devote his evenings . Not long afterwards he brought me some verses written upon that model , a specimen of which I subjoin , having changed some phrases of ...
... volumes of Pope and Goldsmith , to the assiduous study of which he promised to devote his evenings . Not long afterwards he brought me some verses written upon that model , a specimen of which I subjoin , having changed some phrases of ...
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... volume , I may say that the reader will not find one which is not ( as I believe ) either native or imported with the early settlers , nor one which I have not , with my own ears , heard in familiar use . In the metrical portion of the ...
... volume , I may say that the reader will not find one which is not ( as I believe ) either native or imported with the early settlers , nor one which I have not , with my own ears , heard in familiar use . In the metrical portion of the ...
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... volume which no library , pretending to entire completeness , should fail to place upon its shelves . From the ... volume , but the name of its respectable editor , the Rev. Mr. Wilbur , of Jaalam , will afford a sufficient guaranty for ...
... volume which no library , pretending to entire completeness , should fail to place upon its shelves . From the ... volume , but the name of its respectable editor , the Rev. Mr. Wilbur , of Jaalam , will afford a sufficient guaranty for ...
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... volume as one of the first shocking results which we predicted would spring out of the late French " Revolution " ( ! ) From the Bungtown Copper and Comprehensive Tocsin ( a tryweakly family journal ) . ... - Altogether an admirable ...
... volume as one of the first shocking results which we predicted would spring out of the late French " Revolution " ( ! ) From the Bungtown Copper and Comprehensive Tocsin ( a tryweakly family journal ) . ... - Altogether an admirable ...
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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,