Melibœus-Hipponax: The Biglow papers. Second seriesTicknor & Fields, 1867 - 258 sider |
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Side xii
... sure at last of effect among a people whose chief reading is the daily paper . I give in two columns the old style and its modern equivalent . Old Style . Was hanged . New Style . Was launched into eternity . When the halter was put ...
... sure at last of effect among a people whose chief reading is the daily paper . I give in two columns the old style and its modern equivalent . Old Style . Was hanged . New Style . Was launched into eternity . When the halter was put ...
Side xvi
... sure , one would be tempted to think the dream of Columbus half fulfilled , and that Eu- rope had found in the West a nearer way to Orientalism , at least in diction . But it seems to me that a great deal of what is set down as mere ...
... sure , one would be tempted to think the dream of Columbus half fulfilled , and that Eu- rope had found in the West a nearer way to Orientalism , at least in diction . But it seems to me that a great deal of what is set down as mere ...
Side xxxiv
... sure , dully and fully , but for the one we prefer stupidly , and the other ( though this may have come from eliding the y before as ) is giving way to full . The un- educated , whose utterance is slower , still make ad- verbs when they ...
... sure , dully and fully , but for the one we prefer stupidly , and the other ( though this may have come from eliding the y before as ) is giving way to full . The un- educated , whose utterance is slower , still make ad- verbs when they ...
Side xxxv
... sure that the loss of it is not to be regretted . But surely I shall admit the vulgarity of slurring or altogether eliding certain terminal consonants ? I admit that a clear and sharp - cut enunciation is one of the crowning charms and ...
... sure that the loss of it is not to be regretted . But surely I shall admit the vulgarity of slurring or altogether eliding certain terminal consonants ? I admit that a clear and sharp - cut enunciation is one of the crowning charms and ...
Side xxxvii
... sure even of that ) , but they surely would never have tolerated any such , had they suspected the least vulgarity in them . Prior has the rhyme first and trust , but puts it into the mouth of a landlady . Swift has stunted and burnt it ...
... sure even of that ) , but they surely would never have tolerated any such , had they suspected the least vulgarity in them . Prior has the rhyme first and trust , but puts it into the mouth of a landlady . Swift has stunted and burnt it ...
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Side lxxvii - There warn't no stoves (tell comfort died) To bake ye to a puddin'. 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 f'om Concord busted.
Side 40 - Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me down stairs...
Side 216 - Under the yaller-pines I house. When sunshine makes "em all sweetscented, An' hear among their furry boughs The baskin' west-wind purr contented, While 'way o'erhead, ez sweet an...
Side lxxvii - 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.
Side 80 - 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.
Side 159 - Sabbath arter meetin'-time : Findin' my feelin's would n't noways rhyme With nobody's, but off the hendle flew An' took things from an east-wind pint o' view, I started off to lose me in the hills Where the pines be, up back o...
Side 218 - em growin', Three likely lads ez wal could be, Hahnsome an' brave an' not tu knowin'? I set an' look into the blaze Whose natur', jes' like theirn, keeps climbin', Ez long 'z it lives, in shinin' ways, An' half despise myself for rhymin'.
Side ix - In choosing the Yankee dialect, I did not aofc without forethought. It had long seemed to me that the great vice of American writing and speaking was a studied— want of -simplicity, that we were in danger of coming to look on our mother-tongue as a dead language, to be sought in the grammar and dictionary rather than in the heart, and that our only chance of escape was by seeking it at its living sources among those who were, as Scottowe says of Major-General Gibbons,
Side lxxx - em slips, Huldy sot pale ez ashes, All kin' o' smily roun' the lips An' teary roun' the lashes. For she was jes' the quiet kind Whose naturs never vary, Like streams that keep a summer mind Snowhid in Jenooary. The blood clost roun' her heart felt glued Too tight for all expressin', Tell mother see how metters stood, An' gin 'em both her blessin'. Then her red come back like the tide Down to the Bay o' Fundy, An' all I know is they was cried In meetin' come nex
Side 151 - 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,