The Biglow Papers: 2d series ...Houghton, Mifflin, 1885 - 564 Seiten |
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... sure at last of effect among a people whose chief reading is the daily paper . I give in two columns the old style and its modern equivalent . Old Style . New Style . Was hanged . Was launched into eternity . When the halter was put ...
... sure at last of effect among a people whose chief reading is the daily paper . I give in two columns the old style and its modern equivalent . Old Style . New Style . Was hanged . Was launched into eternity . When the halter was put ...
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... commonly used fo Tatra- tions of the North Ame one would be tem of Columbus b had found in Sure , dream that Europe nearer way to But it Orientalism , at in diction . ? seems to me that a great deal of what INTRODUCTION . 211.
... commonly used fo Tatra- tions of the North Ame one would be tem of Columbus b had found in Sure , dream that Europe nearer way to But it Orientalism , at in diction . ? seems to me that a great deal of what INTRODUCTION . 211.
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... sure , dully and fully , but for the one we prefer stupidly , and the other ( though this may have come from eliding the y before as ) is giving away to full . The uneducated , whose utterance is slower , still make adverbs when they ...
... sure , dully and fully , but for the one we prefer stupidly , and the other ( though this may have come from eliding the y before as ) is giving away to full . The uneducated , whose utterance is slower , still make adverbs when they ...
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... sure that the loss of it is not to be regretted . But surely I shall admit the vulgarity of slurring or altogether eliding certain terminal consonants ? I ad- mit that a clear and sharp - cut enunciation is one of the crowning charms ...
... sure that the loss of it is not to be regretted . But surely I shall admit the vulgarity of slurring or altogether eliding certain terminal consonants ? I ad- mit that a clear and sharp - cut enunciation is one of the crowning charms ...
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... sure even of that ) , but they surely would never have tolerated any such , had they suspected the least vulgarity in them . Prior has the rhyme first and trust , but puts it into the mouth of a landlady . Swift has stunted and burnt it ...
... sure even of that ) , but they surely would never have tolerated any such , had they suspected the least vulgarity in them . Prior has the rhyme first and trust , but puts it into the mouth of a landlady . Swift has stunted and burnt it ...
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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