The Biglow Papers: 2d series ...Houghton, Mifflin, 1885 - 564 oldal |
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204. oldal
... President Lincoln , the only really great public man whom these latter days have seen , was great also in this , that he was master witness his speech at Gettysburg of a truly masculine English , classic because it was of no special ...
... President Lincoln , the only really great public man whom these latter days have seen , was great also in this , that he was master witness his speech at Gettysburg of a truly masculine English , classic because it was of no special ...
239. oldal
... President Lincoln said of a precocious boy that he was a rareripe . And I do not be- lieve it for this reason , that the earliest form of the word with us was , and the commoner now in the inland parts still is , so far as I can ...
... President Lincoln said of a precocious boy that he was a rareripe . And I do not be- lieve it for this reason , that the earliest form of the word with us was , and the commoner now in the inland parts still is , so far as I can ...
264. oldal
... a false analogy with would . We have given back to England the excellent adjective lengthy , formed honestly like earthy , drouthy , and others , thus enabling their journalists to characterize our President's 264 INTRODUCTION .
... a false analogy with would . We have given back to England the excellent adjective lengthy , formed honestly like earthy , drouthy , and others , thus enabling their journalists to characterize our President's 264 INTRODUCTION .
265. oldal
... President's messages by a word civilly compromising between long and tedious , so as not to endanger the peace of the two countries by wounding our national sensitiveness to British criticism . Let me give two curious examples of the ...
... President's messages by a word civilly compromising between long and tedious , so as not to endanger the peace of the two countries by wounding our national sensitiveness to British criticism . Let me give two curious examples of the ...
299. oldal
... President announced his policy . But let us hope and pray , remembering this of Saint Gregory , Vult Deus rogari , vult cogi , vult quädam importunitate vinci . We had our first fall of snow on Friday last . Frosts have been unusually ...
... President announced his policy . But let us hope and pray , remembering this of Saint Gregory , Vult Deus rogari , vult cogi , vult quädam importunitate vinci . We had our first fall of snow on Friday last . Frosts have been unusually ...
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285. oldal - 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'.
350. oldal - 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
361. oldal - 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.
431. oldal - 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'...
360. oldal - 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.
432. oldal - 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!
483. oldal - 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...
299. oldal - But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee ; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee...
426. oldal - 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,
288. oldal - 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