The Biglow Papers: 2d series ...Houghton, Mifflin, 1885 - 564 oldal |
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202. oldal
... kind . I had read too much not to know the utter worthless- ness of contemporary reputation , especially as regards satire , but I knew also that by giving a certain amount of influence it also had its worth , if that influence were ...
... kind . I had read too much not to know the utter worthless- ness of contemporary reputation , especially as regards satire , but I knew also that by giving a certain amount of influence it also had its worth , if that influence were ...
209. oldal
... And fancy the scion of a house in the act of throwing itself upon a germ of sentiment to raise a standard ! I am glad , since we have so much in the same kind to answer for , that this bit of horticultural rhetoric is INTRODUCTION . 209.
... And fancy the scion of a house in the act of throwing itself upon a germ of sentiment to raise a standard ! I am glad , since we have so much in the same kind to answer for , that this bit of horticultural rhetoric is INTRODUCTION . 209.
211. oldal
... kind of interest to which the powers and opportunities of England are entitled . The quality of exaggeration has often been remarked on as typical of American character , and especially of American humor . In Dr. Petri's Gedrängtes ...
... kind of interest to which the powers and opportunities of England are entitled . The quality of exaggeration has often been remarked on as typical of American character , and especially of American humor . In Dr. Petri's Gedrängtes ...
221. oldal
... kind , and is nearer Shakespeare's parlous than the modern pronunciation . One other Gallicism survives in our pronun- ciation . Perhaps I should rather call it a semi - Gallicism , for it is the result of a futile effort to reproduce a ...
... kind , and is nearer Shakespeare's parlous than the modern pronunciation . One other Gallicism survives in our pronun- ciation . Perhaps I should rather call it a semi - Gallicism , for it is the result of a futile effort to reproduce a ...
236. oldal
... kind kind , or what becomes of his play on that word and kin in Hamlet ? Nay , did he not even ( shall I dare to hint it ? ) drop the final d as the Yankee still does ? John Lilly plays in the same way on kindred and kindness . But to ...
... kind kind , or what becomes of his play on that word and kin in Hamlet ? Nay , did he not even ( shall I dare to hint it ? ) drop the final d as the Yankee still does ? John Lilly plays in the same way on kindred and kindness . But to ...
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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