The Biglow Papers: 2d series ...Houghton, Mifflin, 1885 - 564 oldal |
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267. oldal
... bein ' tu " ( our Yankee paraphrase of μndèv ayav ) ; hence the phrase tooin ' round , meaning a supererogatory activity like that of flies ; Stingy enough to skim his milk at both eends " ; " Hot as the Devil's kitchen " ; " Handy as a ...
... bein ' tu " ( our Yankee paraphrase of μndèv ayav ) ; hence the phrase tooin ' round , meaning a supererogatory activity like that of flies ; Stingy enough to skim his milk at both eends " ; " Hot as the Devil's kitchen " ; " Handy as a ...
301. oldal
... bein ' beat , when a holl nation doos it , - But Chance is like an amberill , it don't take twice to lose it . I spose you ' re kin ' o ' cur'ous , now , to know why I hain't writ . Wal , I've ben where a litt'ry taste don't some- how ...
... bein ' beat , when a holl nation doos it , - But Chance is like an amberill , it don't take twice to lose it . I spose you ' re kin ' o ' cur'ous , now , to know why I hain't writ . Wal , I've ben where a litt'ry taste don't some- how ...
313. oldal
... bein ' proofs o ' prophecy an ' suckleatin ' me- dium , Where a man's sunthin ' coz he's white , an ' whiskey's cheap ez fleas , An ' the financial pollercy jes ' sooted my idees , Thet I friz down right where I wuz , merried the Widder ...
... bein ' proofs o ' prophecy an ' suckleatin ' me- dium , Where a man's sunthin ' coz he's white , an ' whiskey's cheap ez fleas , An ' the financial pollercy jes ' sooted my idees , Thet I friz down right where I wuz , merried the Widder ...
319. oldal
... bein ' a Secesher . We hain't no settled preachin ' here , ner minis- teril taxes ; The min'ster's only settlement's the carpet - bag he packs his Razor an ' soap - brush intu , with his hymbook an ' his Bible , But they du preach , I ...
... bein ' a Secesher . We hain't no settled preachin ' here , ner minis- teril taxes ; The min'ster's only settlement's the carpet - bag he packs his Razor an ' soap - brush intu , with his hymbook an ' his Bible , But they du preach , I ...
337. oldal
... bein ' born in Middlesex , you know , There's certin spots where I like best to go : The Concord road , for instance , ( I , for one , Most gin❜lly ollers call it John Bull's Run , ) The field o ' Lexin'ton , where England tried The ...
... bein ' born in Middlesex , you know , There's certin spots where I like best to go : The Concord road , for instance , ( I , for one , Most gin❜lly ollers call it John Bull's Run , ) The field o ' Lexin'ton , where England tried The ...
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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