The Biglow Papers: 2d series ...Houghton, Mifflin, 1885 - 564 Seiten |
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... world the imagination is as much matter - of - fact as the understanding . If we were to trust the impression made on us by some of the clev- erest and most characteristic of their peri- odical literature , 210 INTRODUCTION .
... world the imagination is as much matter - of - fact as the understanding . If we were to trust the impression made on us by some of the clev- erest and most characteristic of their peri- odical literature , 210 INTRODUCTION .
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... fact into flesh and blood , and the vivid conception of Joe as a human thermometer , strike me as showing a poetic sense that may be refined into faculty . At any rate , there is humor here , and not mere quickness of wit , the deeper ...
... fact into flesh and blood , and the vivid conception of Joe as a human thermometer , strike me as showing a poetic sense that may be refined into faculty . At any rate , there is humor here , and not mere quickness of wit , the deeper ...
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... fact known to all through the medium of the public prints . I did reason with the young man , but expellas naturam furcâ , tamen usque recurrit . Having myself been a chap- lain in 1812 , I could the less wonder that a man of war had ...
... fact known to all through the medium of the public prints . I did reason with the young man , but expellas naturam furcâ , tamen usque recurrit . Having myself been a chap- lain in 1812 , I could the less wonder that a man of war had ...
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... fact it tethers The spoutin ' gift to hev your words tu thick sot on with feathers , An ' Choate ner Webster would n't ha ' made an A 1 kin ' o ' speech Astride a Southun chestnut horse sharper ' n a baby's screech . Two year ago they ...
... fact it tethers The spoutin ' gift to hev your words tu thick sot on with feathers , An ' Choate ner Webster would n't ha ' made an A 1 kin ' o ' speech Astride a Southun chestnut horse sharper ' n a baby's screech . Two year ago they ...
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... fact ( of much historic im- portance , and hitherto hotly debated ) that Shearjashub Tarbox was the first child of white parentage born in this town , being named in his father's will under date Au- gust 7th , or 9th , 1662. It is well ...
... fact ( of much historic im- portance , and hitherto hotly debated ) that Shearjashub Tarbox was the first child of white parentage born in this town , being named in his father's will under date Au- gust 7th , or 9th , 1662. It is well ...
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Seite 285 - The wa'nut logs shot sparkles out Towards the pootiest, bless her, An' leetle flames danced all about The chiny on the dresser. Agin the chimbley crook-necks hung, An' in amongst 'em rusted The ole queen's-arm thet gran'ther Young Fetched back from Concord busted. The very room, coz she was in, Seemed warm from floor to ceilin', An' she looked full ez rosy agin Ez the apples she was peelin'.
Seite 350 - Brown foundlin' o' the woods, whose baby-bed Was prowled roun' by the Injun's cracklin' tread, An' who grew'st strong thru shifts an
Seite 361 - It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum of people, and wicked condemned men, to be the people with whom you plant; and not only so, but it spoileth the plantation; for they will ever live like rogues, and not fall to work, but be lazy, and do mischief, and spend victuals, and be quickly weary, and then certify over to their country to the discredit of the plantation.
Seite 431 - An' settlin' things in windy Congresses, — Queer politicians, though, for I '11 be skinned Ef all on 'em don't head aginst the wind, 'fore long the trees begin to show belief, — The maple crimsons to a coral-reef, Then saffern swarms swing off from all the willers So plump they look like yaller caterpillars, Then gray hossches'nuts leetle hands unfold Softer "na baby's be at three days old: Thet 's robin - redbreast's almanick; he knows Thet arter this ther' 's only blossom-snows; So, choosin'...
Seite 360 - Judge not the preacher; for he is thy judge. If thou mislike him, thou conceiv'st him not. God calleth preaching, folly. Do not grudge To pick out treasures from an earthen pot. The worst speak something good. If all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
Seite 432 - In ellu'm-shrouds the flashin' hangbird clings An' for the summer vy'ge his hammock slings; All down the loose-walled lanes in archin' bowers The barb'ry droops its strings o' golden flowers, Whose shrinkin' hearts the school-gals love to try With pins, — they'll worry yourn so, boys, bimeby!
Seite 483 - Under the yaller-pines I house, When sunshine makes 'em all sweet-scented, An' hear among their furry boughs The baskin' west-wind purr contented, While 'way o'erhead, ez sweet an...
Seite 299 - But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee ; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee...
Seite 426 - GENTLEMEN, — At the special request of Mr. Biglow, I intended to inclose, together with his own contribution, (into which, at my suggestion, he has thrown a little more of pastoral sentiment than usual,) some passages from my sermon on the day of the National Fast, from the text, " Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them,
Seite 288 - I'd better call agin;" Says she, "Think likely, Mister;" Thet last word pricked him like a pin, An' .... wal, he up an' kist her. When ma bimeby upon 'em slips, Huldy sot pale ez ashes, All kin' o' smily roun' the lips An' teary roun