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... , so far , indeed , as to be almost unread , I found the verses of my pseudonym copied everywhere ; I saw them pinned up in workshops ; I heard them quoted and their authorship debated ; I once even , when THE BIGLOW PAPERS 7.
... , so far , indeed , as to be almost unread , I found the verses of my pseudonym copied everywhere ; I saw them pinned up in workshops ; I heard them quoted and their authorship debated ; I once even , when THE BIGLOW PAPERS 7.
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... verses survive to pass beyond their nonage . In choosing the Yankee dialect , I did not act 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 ...
... verses survive to pass beyond their nonage . In choosing the Yankee dialect , I did not act 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 ...
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... verse ended by wire - drawing its phrase to such thinness that it could bear no weight of meaning whatever . Nor is fine writing by any means confined to America . All writers without imagination fall into it of necessity whenever they ...
... verse ended by wire - drawing its phrase to such thinness that it could bear no weight of meaning whatever . Nor is fine writing by any means confined to America . All writers without imagination fall into it of necessity whenever they ...
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... verse and prose in English . Vulgarisms are often only po- etry in the egg . The late Mr. Horace Mann , in one of his public addresses , commented at some length on the beauty and moral significance of the French phrase s'orienter , and ...
... verse and prose in English . Vulgarisms are often only po- etry in the egg . The late Mr. Horace Mann , in one of his public addresses , commented at some length on the beauty and moral significance of the French phrase s'orienter , and ...
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... verse of Wordsworth . The dictionaries all give it so . I asked a highly cul- tivated Englishman , and he declared for im- beceel ' . In general it may be assumed that accent will finally settle on the syllable dictated by greater ease ...
... verse of Wordsworth . The dictionaries all give it so . I asked a highly cul- tivated Englishman , and he declared for im- beceel ' . In general it may be assumed that accent will finally settle on the syllable dictated by greater ease ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
a-goin afore agin ain't airth American arter ATLANTIC MONTHLY bein Ben Jonson Biglow critters cuss deacon dialect dooce doos eend England English feel feller folks thet fore French fust geaun gittin give goin gret guess heerd HOMER WILBUR idees Jaalam Jedge Jeff John keep ketch kind larn letter mean mind MONIMENT nateral natur never nigger nothin ollers on'y once ough ould Paston Letters phrase Piers Ploughman pint poet pooty preterites pronunciation publick rhyme roun Sawin sech seems sence sense skurce sogers sometimes sound South Southun spell spiles sunthin sure tell ye ther There's thet Thet's things thought thout thru tion Uncle verse vulgar warn't word write wun't Wut's wuth Yankee
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 82 - Zekle crep' up quite unbeknown An' peeked in thru' the winder, An' there sot Huldy all alone, 'Ith no one nigh to hender. A fireplace filled the room's one side With half a cord o' wood in, — There warn't no stoves (tell comfort died) To bake ye to a puddin'. THE COURTIN'. 291 The wa'nut logs shot sparkles out Towards the pootiest, bless her, An' leetle flames danced all about The chiny on the dresser.
Seite 151 - 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 145 - We ain't so weak an' poor, John, With twenty million people, An' close to every door, John, A school-house an' a steeple. Ole Uncle S. sez he,
Seite 150 - 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 85 - em slips, Huldy sot pale ez ashes, All kin' o' smily roun' the lips An' teary roun
Seite 260 - Come, Peace ! not like a mourner bowed For honor lost an' dear ones wasted, But proud, to meet a people proud, With eyes thet tell o' triumph tasted ! Come, with han' grippin' on the hilt, An' step thet proves ye Victory's daughter ! Longin' for you, our sperits wilt Like shipwrecked men's on raf's for water.
Seite 209 - 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 259 - Tippin' with fire the bolt of men Thet rived the Rebel line asunder? 'Tain't right to hev the young go fust, All throbbin...
Seite 82 - THE COURTIN' 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. A fireplace filled the room's one side With half a cord o' wood in — There warn't no stoves (tell comfort died) To bake ye to a puddin'.
Seite 96 - If I did despise the cause of my man-servant, or of my maid-servant, when they contended with me; what then shall I do when God riseth up ? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?