The Biglow Papers, Band 2Ticknor and Fields, 1867 - 175 Seiten |
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... true humor is never divorced from moral conviction - I invented Mr. Sawin for the clown of my little puppet - show . I meant to embody in him that half - conscious unmorality which I had noticed as the recoil in gross natures from a ...
... true humor is never divorced from moral conviction - I invented Mr. Sawin for the clown of my little puppet - show . I meant to embody in him that half - conscious unmorality which I had noticed as the recoil in gross natures from a ...
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... True vigor and heartiness of phrase do not pass from page to page , but from man to man , where the brain is kindled and the lips suppled by downright living interests and by passion in its very throe . Language is the soil of thought ...
... True vigor and heartiness of phrase do not pass from page to page , but from man to man , where the brain is kindled and the lips suppled by downright living interests and by passion in its very throe . Language is the soil of thought ...
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... true one may be found in George Herbert , and even so late as Cowley . To come back to the matter in hand . Our " uplandish men " retain the soft or thin sound of the u in some words , such as rule , truth ( sometimes also pronounced ...
... true one may be found in George Herbert , and even so late as Cowley . To come back to the matter in hand . Our " uplandish men " retain the soft or thin sound of the u in some words , such as rule , truth ( sometimes also pronounced ...
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... find solives Englished by gistes . This , it is true , may have been pro- nounced jeests , but the pronunciation jystes must have pre- For its ceded the present spelling , which was no doubt adopted XX INTRODUCTION .
... find solives Englished by gistes . This , it is true , may have been pro- nounced jeests , but the pronunciation jystes must have pre- For its ceded the present spelling , which was no doubt adopted XX INTRODUCTION .
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... true Yankee sound , and it is not uncommon to find after and daughter . Worse than all , in one of Dodsley's Old Plays we have onions rhyming with minions , I have tears in my eyes while I record it . And yet what is viler than the ...
... true Yankee sound , and it is not uncommon to find after and daughter . Worse than all , in one of Dodsley's Old Plays we have onions rhyming with minions , I have tears in my eyes while I record it . And yet what is viler than the ...
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