The Biglow Papers: 2d series ...Houghton, Mifflin, 1885 - 564 Seiten |
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... sometimes seemed to me that in England there was a growing tendency to curtail lan- guage into a mere convenience , and to defe- cate it of all emotion as thoroughly as alge- braic signs . This has arisen , no doubt , in part from that ...
... sometimes seemed to me that in England there was a growing tendency to curtail lan- guage into a mere convenience , and to defe- cate it of all emotion as thoroughly as alge- braic signs . This has arisen , no doubt , in part from that ...
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... sometimes when he writes of the beauties of French style . It would not be hard to find in the works of French Academicians phrases as coarse as those he cites from Burke , only they are veiled by the unfamiliarity of the language . But ...
... sometimes when he writes of the beauties of French style . It would not be hard to find in the works of French Academicians phrases as coarse as those he cites from Burke , only they are veiled by the unfamiliarity of the language . But ...
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... sometimes spelt dainger ) . But in general it may be said that nothing can be found in it which does not still survive in some one or other of the English provincial dialects . There is , per- haps , a single exception in the verb to ...
... sometimes spelt dainger ) . But in general it may be said that nothing can be found in it which does not still survive in some one or other of the English provincial dialects . There is , per- haps , a single exception in the verb to ...
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... sometimes taken for granted . But I think some fair defence may be made against the charge of vulgarity . Properly speaking , vulgarity is in the thought , and not in the word or the way of pronouncing it . Modern French , the most ...
... sometimes taken for granted . But I think some fair defence may be made against the charge of vulgarity . Properly speaking , vulgarity is in the thought , and not in the word or the way of pronouncing it . Modern French , the most ...
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... long this Gallicism maintained it- self in England . Sometimes a divergence in pronunciation has given us two words with different meanings , as in genteel and jaunty , which I find coming in toward the close INTRODUCTION . 217.
... long this Gallicism maintained it- self in England . Sometimes a divergence in pronunciation has given us two words with different meanings , as in genteel and jaunty , which I find coming in toward the close INTRODUCTION . 217.
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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