Melibœus-Hipponax: The Biglow papers. Second seriesTicknor & Fields, 1867 - 258 Seiten |
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... is to work . and by , perhaps , the world will see it fashioned into poem and picture , and Europe , which will be hard pushed for originality erelong , may have By to thank us for a new sensation . The French xvi INTRODUCTION .
... is to work . and by , perhaps , the world will see it fashioned into poem and picture , and Europe , which will be hard pushed for originality erelong , may have By to thank us for a new sensation . The French xvi INTRODUCTION .
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... French continue to find Shakespeare exaggerated be- cause he treated English just as our country - folk do when they speak of a " steep price , " or say that they " freeze to " a thing . The first pos- tulate of an original literature ...
... French continue to find Shakespeare exaggerated be- cause he treated English just as our country - folk do when they speak of a " steep price , " or say that they " freeze to " a thing . The first pos- tulate of an original literature ...
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... French , for example , or Scotch down to the time of James VI . , could hardly be called patois , while I should be half inclined to name the Yankee a lingo rather than a dialect . It has retained a few words now fallen into disuse in ...
... French , for example , or Scotch down to the time of James VI . , could hardly be called patois , while I should be half inclined to name the Yankee a lingo rather than a dialect . It has retained a few words now fallen into disuse in ...
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... French , the most polite of languages , is barbarously vulgar if compared with the Latin out of which it has been cor- rupted , or even with Italian . There is a wider gap , and one implying greater boorishness , between ministerium and ...
... French , the most polite of languages , is barbarously vulgar if compared with the Latin out of which it has been cor- rupted , or even with Italian . There is a wider gap , and one implying greater boorishness , between ministerium and ...
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... French sound has been preserved in cer- tain single letters and diphthongs . And this opens a curious question as to ... French accent indicated by the superfluous letters ― strong an accent There is plenty ( for French had INTRODUCTION ...
... French sound has been preserved in cer- tain single letters and diphthongs . And this opens a curious question as to ... French accent indicated by the superfluous letters ― strong an accent There is plenty ( for French had INTRODUCTION ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite lxxvii - There warn't no stoves (tell comfort died) To bake ye to a puddin'. 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 f'om Concord busted.
Seite 40 - Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me down stairs...
Seite 216 - Under the yaller-pines I house. When sunshine makes "em all sweetscented, An' hear among their furry boughs The baskin' west-wind purr contented, While 'way o'erhead, ez sweet an...
Seite lxxvii - GOD makes sech nights, all white an' still Fur 'z you can look or listen, Moonshine an' snow on field an' hill, All silence an' all glisten. Zekle crep' up quite unbeknown An' peeked in thru' the winder. An' there sot Huldy all alone, 'Ith no one nigh to hender.
Seite 80 - 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 159 - Sabbath arter meetin'-time : Findin' my feelin's would n't noways rhyme With nobody's, but off the hendle flew An' took things from an east-wind pint o' view, I started off to lose me in the hills Where the pines be, up back o...
Seite 218 - em growin', Three likely lads ez wal could be, Hahnsome an' brave an' not tu knowin'? I set an' look into the blaze Whose natur', jes' like theirn, keeps climbin', Ez long 'z it lives, in shinin' ways, An' half despise myself for rhymin'.
Seite ix - In choosing the Yankee dialect, I did not aofc without forethought. It had long seemed to me that the great vice of American writing and speaking was a studied— want of -simplicity, that we were in danger of coming to look on our mother-tongue as a dead language, to be sought in the grammar and dictionary rather than in the heart, and that our only chance of escape was by seeking it at its living sources among those who were, as Scottowe says of Major-General Gibbons,
Seite lxxx - em slips, Huldy sot pale ez ashes, All kin' o' smily roun' the lips An' teary roun' the lashes. For she was jes' the quiet kind Whose naturs never vary, Like streams that keep a summer mind Snowhid in Jenooary. The blood clost roun' her heart felt glued Too tight for all expressin', Tell mother see how metters stood, An' gin 'em both her blessin'. Then her red come back like the tide Down to the Bay o' Fundy, An' all I know is they was cried In meetin' come nex
Seite 151 - 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,