The Biglow PapersHenry Altemus, 1899 - 221 страница |
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... volume which no library , pretending to en- tire completeness , should fail to place upon its shelves . From the Higginbottomopolis Snapping - turtle . A collection of the merest balderdash and dog- gerel that it was ever our bad ...
... volume which no library , pretending to en- tire completeness , should fail to place upon its shelves . From the Higginbottomopolis Snapping - turtle . A collection of the merest balderdash and dog- gerel that it was ever our bad ...
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... volume of a con- venient and attractive size . . . . In reading this elegantly executed work , it has seemed to us ... volumes intended , as this is , for the illus- tration of a provincial dialect and turns of ex- pression , a dash of ...
... volume of a con- venient and attractive size . . . . In reading this elegantly executed work , it has seemed to us ... volumes intended , as this is , for the illus- tration of a provincial dialect and turns of ex- pression , a dash of ...
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... volume as one of the first shocking results which we predicted would spring out of the late French " Revolution " ( ! ) From the Bungtown Copper and Comprehensive Tocsin ( a try - weakly family journal ) . • Altogether an admirable work ...
... volume as one of the first shocking results which we predicted would spring out of the late French " Revolution " ( ! ) From the Bungtown Copper and Comprehensive Tocsin ( a try - weakly family journal ) . • Altogether an admirable work ...
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... volumes of this or any age . We know of no Eng- lish author who could have written it . It is a work to which the proud genius of our country , standing with one foot on the Aroostook and the other on the Rio Grande , and holding up the ...
... volumes of this or any age . We know of no Eng- lish author who could have written it . It is a work to which the proud genius of our country , standing with one foot on the Aroostook and the other on the Rio Grande , and holding up the ...
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James Russell Lowell. From the Saltriver Pilot and Flag of Freedom . A volume in bad grammar and worse taste . . While the pieces here collected were confined to their appropriate sphere in the corners of obscure newspapers , we ...
James Russell Lowell. From the Saltriver Pilot and Flag of Freedom . A volume in bad grammar and worse taste . . While the pieces here collected were confined to their appropriate sphere in the corners of obscure newspapers , we ...
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Страница 127 - An' gives a good-sized junk to all, — I don't care how hard money is, Ez long ez mine's paid punctooal. I du believe with all my soul In the gret Press's freedom, To pint the people to the goal An...
Страница 49 - 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' pains, All to git the Devil's thankee, Helpin
Страница 75 - 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...
Страница 48 - Ez fer war, I call it murder, — There you hev it plain an' flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that; God hez sed so plump an' fairly, It's ez long ez it is broad, An' you've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.
Страница 93 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
Страница 48 - Hain't they cut a thunderin' swarth (Helped by Yankee renegaders), Thru the vartu o' the North ! We begin to think it 's nater To take sarse an' not be riled ; — Who 'd expect to see a tater All on eend at bein' biled ? Ez fer war, I call it murder, — There you hev it plain an...
Страница 23 - A-raspin' on the scraper, — All ways to once her feelins flew Like sparks in burnt-up paper. He kin' o' 1'itered on the mat Some doubtfle o' the sekle, His heart kep' goin' pity-pat, But hern went pity Zekle.
Страница 77 - Polk, you know, he is our country, An' the angel thet writes all our sins in a book Puts the debit to him, an' to us the per contry\ An' John P. Robinson he Sez this is his view o
Страница 129 - V ball Air good-will's strongest magnets, Thet peace, to make it stick at all, Must be druv in with bagnets. In short, I firmly du believe In Humbug generally, Fer it's a thing thet I perceive To hev a solid vally ; This heth my faithful shepherd ben, In pasturs sweet heth led me. An' this'll keep the people green To feed ez they hev fed me.