Melibœus-Hipponax. The Biglow papers, ed. with an intr. &c. by Homer Wilbur |
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... give an innocent pleasure to many . As a proof that he is competent to the production of other kinds of poetry , we copy for our readers a short fragment of a pastoral by him , the manuscript of which was loaned us by a friend . The ...
... give an innocent pleasure to many . As a proof that he is competent to the production of other kinds of poetry , we copy for our readers a short fragment of a pastoral by him , the manuscript of which was loaned us by a friend . The ...
Página xiii
... give an innocent pleasure to many . As a proof that he is competent to the production of other kinds of poetry , we copy for our readers a short fragment of a pastoral by him , the manuscript of which was loaned us by a friend . The ...
... give an innocent pleasure to many . As a proof that he is competent to the production of other kinds of poetry , we copy for our readers a short fragment of a pastoral by him , the manuscript of which was loaned us by a friend . The ...
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... gives the rough sound to the r when he can help it , and often displays considerable ingenuity in avoiding it even before a vowel . 2. He seldom sounds the final g , a piece of self - denial , if we consider his partiality for nasals ...
... gives the rough sound to the r when he can help it , and often displays considerable ingenuity in avoiding it even before a vowel . 2. He seldom sounds the final g , a piece of self - denial , if we consider his partiality for nasals ...
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... give as much of directness and personal application to my discourses as met the wants of my congregation , without risk of offending any by being supposed to have him or her in my eye ( as the saying is ) -seemed yet to Mrs. Wilbur a ...
... give as much of directness and personal application to my discourses as met the wants of my congregation , without risk of offending any by being supposed to have him or her in my eye ( as the saying is ) -seemed yet to Mrs. Wilbur a ...
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... give a lickin ' To them poor half - Spanish drones ? Jest go home an ' ask our Nancy Wether I'd be sech a goose Ez to jine ye , -guess you'd fancy The etarnal bung wuz loose ! She wants me fer home consumption , Let alone the hay's to ...
... give a lickin ' To them poor half - Spanish drones ? Jest go home an ' ask our Nancy Wether I'd be sech a goose Ez to jine ye , -guess you'd fancy The etarnal bung wuz loose ! She wants me fer home consumption , Let alone the hay's to ...
Términos y frases comunes
a-goin afore agin ain't aint arter ATLANTIC MONTHLY bein Biglow BIRDOFREDUM BRIDGE critters Deacon discourse doos Doughface dreffle eend England F. C. BURNAND feller folks thet fore frum furder fust ghosts gittin give goin gret guess hed n't heerd holl HOMER WILBUR HOSEA idees Jaalam Jedge Jeff jine ketch kind Knott larn letter lickin look mind Mister MONIMENT nary nateral natural never nigger North nothin ollers on't on'y ough pint pooty reader roun round Sawin sech seemed sence settin Sez John sogers soul South Southun spile spirits spose sunthin T. W. Robertson tell ye ther There's thet thet wuz thet's thing thought thout thru took Twunt Uncle warn't wun't wut's wuth Yankee young
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Página 43 - GUVENER B. is a sensible man; He stays to his home an' looks arter his folks; He draws his furrer ez straight ez he can, An' into nobody's tater-patch pokes; — But John P. Robinson he Sez he wunt vote fer Guvener B. My! aint it terrible? Wut shall we du? We can't never choose him, o...
Página x - An' yit she gin her cheer a jerk Ez though she wished him furder, An' on her apples kep' to work, Parin
Página 45 - In virtue of our clay, this little ball of earth exacts a certain loyalty of us, while, in our capacity as spirits, we are admitted citizens of an invisible and holier fatherland. There is a patriotism of the soul whose claim absolves us from our other and terrene fealty. Our true country is that ideal realm which we represent to ourselves under the names of religion, duty, and the like.
Página 163 - May-day seldom looks Up in the country ez it doos in books ; They 're no more like than hornets'- nests an" hives, Or printed sarmons be to holy lives. I, with my trouses perched on cow-hide boots, Tuggin' my foundered feet out by the roots, Hev seen ye come to fling on April's hearse Your muslin nosegays from the milliner's, Puzzlin...
Página 44 - Parson Wilbur sez he never heerd in his life Thet th' Apostles rigged out in their swaller-tail coats, An" marched round in front of a drum an' a fife, To git some on "em office, an' some on 'em votes; But John P.
Página 31 - So's to lug new slave-states in To abuse ye, an' to scorn ye, An' to plunder ye like sin. Aint it cute to see a Yankee Take sech everlastin...
Página 127 - Whose youth from thee by gripin' need was wrung, 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...
Página 43 - He's ben true to one party — an' thet is himself; So John P. Robinson he Sez he shall vote fer Gineral C. Gineral C. he goes in fer the war; He don't...
Página 66 - Uncle Sam I reverence, Partic'larly his pockets. I du believe in any plan O' levyin' the taxes, Ez long ez, like a lumberman, I git jest wut I axes ; I go free-trade thru thick an' thin, Because it kind o' rouses The folks to vote, — an' keeps us in Our quiet custom-houses.
Página 128 - By fits an' starts, in Yankee hearts, Though 't may surprise JB More 'n it would you an' me." Ef l turned mad dogs loose, John, On your front-parlor stairs, Would it jest meet your views, John, To wait an' sue their heirs ? Ole Uncle S.