The Biglow PapersHoughton, Mifflin, 1885 - 198 Seiten |
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... hold of the public ear in a surprising manner . So , only setting him right as to the quantity of the proper name Pegasus , I left him to follow the bent of his natural genius . There are two things upon which it would seem fitting to ...
... hold of the public ear in a surprising manner . So , only setting him right as to the quantity of the proper name Pegasus , I left him to follow the bent of his natural genius . There are two things upon which it would seem fitting to ...
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... hold with that nicely metaphysical Pomera- nian , Captain Vratz , who was Count Königsmark's chief instrument in the murder of Mr. Thynne , that the Scheme of Salvation has been arranged with an especial eye to the necessities of the ...
... hold with that nicely metaphysical Pomera- nian , Captain Vratz , who was Count Königsmark's chief instrument in the murder of Mr. Thynne , that the Scheme of Salvation has been arranged with an especial eye to the necessities of the ...
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... holds with his finned quarry , who , if other bait be wanting , can by a bare bit of white rag at the end of a string capti- vate those foolish fishes . Such piscatorial oratory is Satan cunning in . Before one he trails a hat and ...
... holds with his finned quarry , who , if other bait be wanting , can by a bare bit of white rag at the end of a string capti- vate those foolish fishes . Such piscatorial oratory is Satan cunning in . Before one he trails a hat and ...
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... holds our affections as hostages , the while he patches up a truce with our conscience . Meanwhile , let us not forget that the aim of the true satirist is not to be severe upon persons , SETTS REGIMENT - WHAT MR ROBINSON THINKS No III.
... holds our affections as hostages , the while he patches up a truce with our conscience . Meanwhile , let us not forget that the aim of the true satirist is not to be severe upon persons , SETTS REGIMENT - WHAT MR ROBINSON THINKS No III.
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... hold upon the popular mind . It is related of Thomas Warton , the second of that honored name who held the office of Poetry Pro- fessor at Oxford , that , when one wished to find him , being absconded , as was his wont , in some obscure ...
... hold upon the popular mind . It is related of Thomas Warton , the second of that honored name who held the office of Poetry Pro- fessor at Oxford , that , when one wished to find him , being absconded , as was his wont , in some obscure ...
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Seite 80 - Polk, you know, he is our country. An' the angel thet writes all our sins in a book Puts the debit to him, an' to us the per contry; An' John P. Robinson he Sez this is his view o
Seite 55 - Ez fer war, I call it murder, — There you hev it plain an' flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that; God hez sed so plump an' fairly, It's ez long ez it is broad, An' you've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.
Seite 60 - V thousands o' my mind. [The first recruiting sergeant on record I conceive to have been that individual who is mentioned in the Book of Job as going to and fro in the earth, and walking up and down in it.
Seite 59 - Is our dooty in this fix, They 'd ha' done 't ez quick ez winkin' In the days o' seventy-six. Clang the bells in every steeple, Call all true men to disown The tradoocers of our people, The enslavers o...
Seite 122 - I du believe in special ways O' prayin' an' convartin'; The bread comes back in many days, An' buttered, tu, fer sartin ; I mean in preyin' till one busts On wut the party chooses, An' in convartin' public trusts To very privit uses.
Seite 56 - To abuse ye, an' to scorn ye, An' to plunder ye like sin. Ain't it cute to see a Yankee Take sech everlastin' pains, All to git the Devil's thankee Helpin' on 'em weld their chains ? Wy, it's jest ez clear ez figgers, Clear ez one an' one make two, Chaps thet make black slaves o' niggers Want to make wite slaves o
Seite 94 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and seeks her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
Seite 79 - B. is a sensible man; He stays to his home an' looks arter his folks; He draws his furrer ez straight ez he can, An' into nobody's tater-patch pokes; — But John P.
Seite 26 - A person familiar with the dialect of certain portions of Massachusetts will not fail to recognize, in ordinary discourse, many words now noted in English vocabularies as archaic, the greater part of which were in common use about the time of the King James translation of the Bible. Shakespeare stands less in need of a glossary to most New Englanders than to many a native of the Old Country.
Seite 52 - Our Hosea wuz down to Boston last week, and he see a cruetin Sarjunt a struttin round as popler as a hen with 1 chicking, with 2 fellers a drummin and fifin arter him like all nater. the sarjunt he thout Hosea...