The Biglow Papers: 2d series ...Houghton, Mifflin, 1885 - 564 oldal |
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203. oldal
... things which I had deeply at heart . I say this because there is no imputation that could be more galling to any man's self - respect than that of being a mere jester . I endeavored , by generalizing my satire , to give it what value I ...
... things which I had deeply at heart . I say this because there is no imputation that could be more galling to any man's self - respect than that of being a mere jester . I endeavored , by generalizing my satire , to give it what value I ...
210. oldal
... thing as a na- tional ideal , seeming utterly to have forgot- ten that even in the affairs of this world the imagination is as much matter - of - fact as the understanding . If we were to trust the impression made on us by some of the ...
... thing as a na- tional ideal , seeming utterly to have forgot- ten that even in the affairs of this world the imagination is as much matter - of - fact as the understanding . If we were to trust the impression made on us by some of the ...
212. oldal
... thing . The first postulate of an original literature is that a people should use their language instinctively and unconsciously , as if it were a lively part of their growth and personality , not as the mere torpid boon of education or ...
... thing . The first postulate of an original literature is that a people should use their language instinctively and unconsciously , as if it were a lively part of their growth and personality , not as the mere torpid boon of education or ...
215. oldal
... thing of the French sound of a also in words like chămber , dănger ( though the latter had certainly begun to take its present sound so early as 1636 , when I find it sometimes spelt dainger ) . But in general it may be said that ...
... thing of the French sound of a also in words like chămber , dănger ( though the latter had certainly begun to take its present sound so early as 1636 , when I find it sometimes spelt dainger ) . But in general it may be said that ...
217. oldal
... thing like the French sound has been pre- served in certain single letters and diph- thongs . And this opens a curious question as to how long this Gallicism maintained it- self in England . Sometimes a divergence in pronunciation has ...
... thing like the French sound has been pre- served in certain single letters and diph- thongs . And this opens a curious question as to how long this Gallicism maintained it- self in England . Sometimes a divergence in pronunciation has ...
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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