Melibœus-Hipponax: The Biglow papers. Second seriesTicknor & Fields, 1867 - 258 頁 |
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第 xvii 頁
... sometimes when he writes of the beauties of French style . It would not be hard to find in the works of French Academicians phrases as coarse as those B he cites from Burke , only they are veiled by INTRODUCTION . xvii.
... sometimes when he writes of the beauties of French style . It would not be hard to find in the works of French Academicians phrases as coarse as those B he cites from Burke , only they are veiled by INTRODUCTION . xvii.
第 xx 頁
... sometimes taken for granted . But I think some fair defence may be made against the charge of vulgarity . Properly speaking , vulgarity is in the thought , and not in the word or the way of pronouncing it . Modern French , the most ...
... sometimes taken for granted . But I think some fair defence may be made against the charge of vulgarity . Properly speaking , vulgarity is in the thought , and not in the word or the way of pronouncing it . Modern French , the most ...
第 xxi 頁
... Sometimes a diver- gence in pronunciation has given us two words with different meanings , as in genteel and jaunty , which I find coming in toward the close of the seventeenth century , and wavering between genteel and jantee . It is ...
... Sometimes a diver- gence in pronunciation has given us two words with different meanings , as in genteel and jaunty , which I find coming in toward the close of the seventeenth century , and wavering between genteel and jantee . It is ...
第 xxiii 頁
... ( sometimes also pronounced truth , not trooth ) , while he says noo for new , and gives to view and few so indescribable a mixture of the two sounds with a slight nasal tinc- ture that it may be called the Yankee shibboleth . In rule the ...
... ( sometimes also pronounced truth , not trooth ) , while he says noo for new , and gives to view and few so indescribable a mixture of the two sounds with a slight nasal tinc- ture that it may be called the Yankee shibboleth . In rule the ...
第 xxiv 頁
... ( sometimes heard as fairce and pairce ) , are also Norman . its antiquity I cite the rhyme of verse and pierce in Chapman and Donne , and in some commenda- tory verses by a Mr. Berkenhead before the poems of Francis Beaumont . Our ...
... ( sometimes heard as fairce and pairce ) , are also Norman . its antiquity I cite the rhyme of verse and pierce in Chapman and Donne , and in some commenda- tory verses by a Mr. Berkenhead before the poems of Francis Beaumont . Our ...
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第 lxxvii 頁 - 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.
第 40 頁 - Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me down stairs...
第 216 頁 - 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...
第 lxxvii 頁 - 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.
第 80 頁 - 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.
第 159 頁 - 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...
第 218 頁 - 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'.
第 ix 頁 - 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,
第 lxxx 頁 - 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
第 151 頁 - 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,