The Biglow PapersJohn Camden Hotten, 1861 - 200 Seiten |
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... persons well informed in Western literature and literary gossip , he is also known as a satirist of genuine excellence , and as a star in the Boston lite- rary coterie , -nicknamed by jealous New - Yorkers the Mutual Admiration Society ...
... persons well informed in Western literature and literary gossip , he is also known as a satirist of genuine excellence , and as a star in the Boston lite- rary coterie , -nicknamed by jealous New - Yorkers the Mutual Admiration Society ...
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... persons and subjects peculiarly American . These are enclosed within brackets , and bear his initials . Should the reader meet with an obscure or foreign expression , unexplained by any foot - note , the Glossary at the end had better ...
... persons and subjects peculiarly American . These are enclosed within brackets , and bear his initials . Should the reader meet with an obscure or foreign expression , unexplained by any foot - note , the Glossary at the end had better ...
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... persons nearly a year beforehand ) , or whether it had its origin in any more culpable motives , I forbear to consider in this place , the matter being in course of painful investigation . But , how- ever this may be , I felt the ...
... persons nearly a year beforehand ) , or whether it had its origin in any more culpable motives , I forbear to consider in this place , the matter being in course of painful investigation . But , how- ever this may be , I felt the ...
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... persons especially interested therein , I have written in that curtailed and other- wise maltreated canine Latin , to the writing and reading of which they are accustomed . OMNIB . FER TOT . ORB . TERRAR . CATALOG . ACADEM . EDD . Minim ...
... persons especially interested therein , I have written in that curtailed and other- wise maltreated canine Latin , to the writing and reading of which they are accustomed . OMNIB . FER TOT . ORB . TERRAR . CATALOG . ACADEM . EDD . Minim ...
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... persons , who took a part in the actual making of it , and , finding the manufacture profitable , continued the supply in an adequate proportion to the demand . " Old Joe is gone , who saw hot Percy goad His slow artillery up the ...
... persons , who took a part in the actual making of it , and , finding the manufacture profitable , continued the supply in an adequate proportion to the demand . " Old Joe is gone , who saw hot Percy goad His slow artillery up the ...
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Seite 70 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
Seite 58 - 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 100 - I du believe with all my soul In the gret Press's freedom, To pint the people to the goal An' in the traces lead 'em; Palsied the arm thet forges yokes At my fat contracts squintin', An' withered be the nose thet pokes Inter the gov'ment printin'!
Seite 101 - I du believe thet all o' me Doth bear his superscription, — Will, conscience, honor, honesty, An' things o' thet description. I du believe in prayer an' praise To him thet hez the grantin' O' jobs, — in every thin' thet pays, But most of all in CANTIN' ; This doth my cup with marcies fill, This lays all thought o' sin to rest, I don't believe in princerple, But O, I du in interest.
Seite 28 - Haint they cut a thunderin' swarth (Helped by Yankee renegaders), Thru the vartu o' the North ! We begin to think it 's nater To take sarse an' not be riled; — jo Who 'd expect to see a tater All on eend at bein' biled ? Ez fer war, I call it murder, — There you hev it plain an...
Seite 34 - 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' their own; '*> Let our dear old Bay State proudly Put the trumpet to her mouth, Let her ring this messidge loudly In the ears of all the South : — "I '11 return ye good fer evil Much ez we frail mortils can, But I wun't go help the Devil Makin...
Seite 98 - s wal enough agin a king To dror resolves an' triggers, — But libbaty 'sa kind o' thing Thet don't agree with niggers. I du believe the people want A tax on teas an...
Seite 26 - ... em as i hoop you will Be, and said they wuz True grit. Hosea ses taint hardly fair to call 'em hisn now, cos the parson kind o...
Seite 26 - ... eenamost enuf brass a bobbin up and down on his shoulders and figureed onto his coat and trousis, let alone wut nater hed sot in his featers, to make a 6 pounder out on. wal, Hosea he com home considerabal riled, and arter I 'd gone to bed I heern Him a thrashin round like a short-tailed Bull in fli-time.