The Biglow Papers, Band 2Ticknor and Fields, 1867 - 175 Seiten |
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... half - conscious unmorality which I had noticed as the recoil in gross natures from a puritanism that still strove to keep in its creed the intense savor which had long gone out of its faith and life . In the three I thought I should ...
... half - conscious unmorality which I had noticed as the recoil in gross natures from a puritanism that still strove to keep in its creed the intense savor which had long gone out of its faith and life . In the three I thought I should ...
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... half fulfilled , and that Europe had found in the West a nearer way to Orientalism , at least in diction . But it seems to me that a great deal of what is set down as mere extravagance is more fitly to be called intensity and ...
... half fulfilled , and that Europe had found in the West a nearer way to Orientalism , at least in diction . But it seems to me that a great deal of what is set down as mere extravagance is more fitly to be called intensity and ...
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... Norman French , for example , or Scotch down to the time of James VI . , could hardly be called patois , while I should be half inclined to name the Yankee a lingo rather than a dialect . It has retained xvi INTRODUCTION .
... Norman French , for example , or Scotch down to the time of James VI . , could hardly be called patois , while I should be half inclined to name the Yankee a lingo rather than a dialect . It has retained xvi INTRODUCTION .
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... half the world subdue . " It may be , however , that the contraction is in " th ' orld . " Is our gin for given more violent than mar'l for marvel , which was once common , and which I find as late as Her- rick ? Nay , Herrick has gin ...
... half the world subdue . " It may be , however , that the contraction is in " th ' orld . " Is our gin for given more violent than mar'l for marvel , which was once common , and which I find as late as Her- rick ? Nay , Herrick has gin ...
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... half suspect to be a misprint for it , in Gammer Gurton : - 66 ' Lyght it and bring it tite away . " After all , what is it but another form of straightway ? Cus- sedness , meaning wickedness , malignity , and cuss , a sneak- ing , ill ...
... half suspect to be a misprint for it , in Gammer Gurton : - 66 ' Lyght it and bring it tite away . " After all , what is it but another form of straightway ? Cus- sedness , meaning wickedness , malignity , and cuss , a sneak- ing , ill ...
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