American Humor: Beecher, Hawthorne, Holmes, Irving, Longfellow, EtcPutnam, 1886 - 287 páginas |
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... sure to differ from him on every point , and uniformly to be in the wrong , his mind was kept in a furnace - heat , until he became as completely burnt out as a Dutch family - pipe which has passed through three generations of hard ...
... sure to differ from him on every point , and uniformly to be in the wrong , his mind was kept in a furnace - heat , until he became as completely burnt out as a Dutch family - pipe which has passed through three generations of hard ...
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... sure , and held to the old religion of Madeira , which di- vided the faith of our forefathers with the Cambridge Platform , and had never given in to the later heresies which have crept into the communion of good - fellowship from the ...
... sure , and held to the old religion of Madeira , which di- vided the faith of our forefathers with the Cambridge Platform , and had never given in to the later heresies which have crept into the communion of good - fellowship from the ...
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... sure and steadfast . " I confess to having fallen away myself from the gracious doctrine and works to which he had held so fast ; but I am no bigot , -which , for a heretic , is something remarkable , —and had no scruple about uniting ...
... sure and steadfast . " I confess to having fallen away myself from the gracious doctrine and works to which he had held so fast ; but I am no bigot , -which , for a heretic , is something remarkable , —and had no scruple about uniting ...
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... sure ; but it was not Garcia that suffered by them . M. Malibran , more- over , never paid the price agreed upon , and yet Garcia got it , for all that . " " Indeed . ! " I exclaimed . " It must have been a neat operation . I cannot ...
... sure ; but it was not Garcia that suffered by them . M. Malibran , more- over , never paid the price agreed upon , and yet Garcia got it , for all that . " " Indeed . ! " I exclaimed . " It must have been a neat operation . I cannot ...
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... sure you would not molest him with business on such an occasion as that . " " But my fifty thousand dollars ! " persisted the consignee . " And why have they not been paid ? " " Oh , give yourself no uneasiness at all about that , sir ...
... sure you would not molest him with business on such an occasion as that . " " But my fifty thousand dollars ! " persisted the consignee . " And why have they not been paid ? " " Oh , give yourself no uneasiness at all about that , sir ...
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Página 194 - 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'.
Página 5 - ... a beer barrel on skids. His face, that infallible index of the mind, presented a vast expanse, unfurrowed by those lines and angles which disfigure the human countenance with what is termed expression. Two small gray eyes twinkled feebly in the midst, like two stars of lesser magnitude in a hazy firmament, and his full-fed cheeks, which seemed to have taken toll of everything that went into his mouth, were curiously mottled and streaked with dusty red, like a spitzenberg apple.
Página 195 - 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 from Concord busted. The very room, coz she was in, Seemed warm from floor to ceilin', An' she looked full ez rosy agin Ez the apples she was peelin'.
Página 226 - Applause followed, which turned Dennis's head. He rose, fluttered, and tried No. 3 : "There has been so much said, and, on the whole, so well said, that I will not longer occupy the time!
Página 194 - 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...
Página 216 - But Dr. Wigan does not go into these niceties of this subject, and I failed. It was then, that, on my wife's suggestion, I resolved to look out for a Double. I was, at first, singularly successful. We happened to be recreating at Stafford Springs that summer. We rode out one day, for one of the relaxations of that watering-place, to the great Monson Poor-House.
Página 232 - Very well, thank you. And you?" This for an answer to casual salutations. 2. "I am very glad you liked it." 3. "There has been so much said, and, on the whole, so well said, that I will not occupy the time.
Página 92 - And is there nothing yet unsaid Before the change appears ? Remember, all their gifts have fled With those dissolving years ! " Why, yes ; for memory would recall My fond paternal joys ; I could not bear to leave them all ; I'll take — my — girl — and — boys...
Página 40 - Dance with me, Clara," cried Colonel Killigrew. " No, no ! I will be her partner," shouted Mr. Gascoigne. " She promised me her hand fifty years ago," exclaimed Mr. Medbourne. They all gathered round her. One caught both her hands in his passionate grasp, another threw his arm about her waist, the third buried his hand among the glossy curls that clustered beneath the widow's cap. Blushing, panting, struggling, chiding, laughing, her warm breath fanning each of their faces by turns, she strove to...
Página 26 - ... little better than a mendicant. Colonel Killigrew had wasted his best years, and his health and substance, in the pursuit of sinful pleasures, which had given birth to a brood of pains, such as the gout, and divers other torments of soul and body. Mr. Gascoigne was a ruined politician, a man of evil fame, or at least had been so till time had buried him from the knowledge of the present generation, and made him obscure instead of infamous.