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... less to make his majesty laugh than to win a passage to his royal ears for certain serious 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 ...
... less to make his majesty laugh than to win a passage to his royal ears for certain serious 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 ...
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... less than of plainness , and prose would be poor indeed if it could not find a tongue for that meaning of the mind which is behind the meaning of the words . It has sometimes . seemed to me that in England there was a grow- 14 THE ...
... less than of plainness , and prose would be poor indeed if it could not find a tongue for that meaning of the mind which is behind the meaning of the words . It has sometimes . seemed to me that in England there was a grow- 14 THE ...
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... less ? I am not speaking now of Americanisms properly so called , that is , of words or phrases which have grown into use here either through necessity , invention , or accident , such as a carry , a one - horse affair , a prairie , to ...
... less ? I am not speaking now of Americanisms properly so called , that is , of words or phrases which have grown into use here either through necessity , invention , or accident , such as a carry , a one - horse affair , a prairie , to ...
Page 27
... less often knowed . His sot is merely a broad sounding of sat , no more inele- gant than the common got for gat , which he further degrades into gut . When he says darst , he uses a form as old as Chaucer . The Yankee has retained ...
... less often knowed . His sot is merely a broad sounding of sat , no more inele- gant than the common got for gat , which he further degrades into gut . When he says darst , he uses a form as old as Chaucer . The Yankee has retained ...
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... uttered are like coins fresh from the mint , compared with the worn and dingy drudges of long service , I do not mean American coins , for those look less badly the ― more they lose of their original ugliness . No one THE BIGLOW PAPERS 35.
... uttered are like coins fresh from the mint , compared with the worn and dingy drudges of long service , I do not mean American coins , for those look less badly the ― more they lose of their original ugliness . No one THE BIGLOW PAPERS 35.
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Page 82 - Zekle crep' up quite unbeknown An' peeked in thru' the winder, An' there sot Huldy all alone, 'Ith no one nigh to hender. A fireplace filled the room's one side With half a cord o' wood in, — There warn't no stoves (tell comfort died) To bake ye to a puddin'. THE COURTIN'. 291 The wa'nut logs shot sparkles out Towards the pootiest, bless her, An' leetle flames danced all about The chiny on the dresser.
Page 151 - 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.
Page 145 - We ain't so weak an' poor, John, With twenty million people, An' close to every door, John, A school-house an' a steeple. Ole Uncle S. sez he,
Page 150 - 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.
Page 85 - em slips, Huldy sot pale ez ashes, All kin' o' smily roun' the lips An' teary roun
Page 260 - Come, Peace ! not like a mourner bowed For honor lost an' dear ones wasted, But proud, to meet a people proud, With eyes thet tell o' triumph tasted ! Come, with han' grippin' on the hilt, An' step thet proves ye Victory's daughter ! Longin' for you, our sperits wilt Like shipwrecked men's on raf's for water.
Page 209 - 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,
Page 259 - Tippin' with fire the bolt of men Thet rived the Rebel line asunder? 'Tain't right to hev the young go fust, All throbbin...
Page 82 - THE COURTIN' GOD makes sech nights, all white an' still Fur 'z you can look or listen, Moonshine an' snow on field an' hill, All silence an' all glisten. Zekle crep' up quite unbeknown An' peeked in thru' the winder, An' there sot Huldy all alone, 'ith no one nigh to hender. A fireplace filled the room's one side With half a cord o' wood in — There warn't no stoves (tell comfort died) To bake ye to a puddin'.
Page 96 - If I did despise the cause of my man-servant, or of my maid-servant, when they contended with me; what then shall I do when God riseth up ? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?