Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature, Volumen1Edward Tuckerman Mason G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1886 - 294 páginas |
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... looked , and to have slipped forever through the fingers of scrupulous history . It is true , that certain of the early provincial poets , of whom there were great numbers in the Nieuw Nederlandts , taking advantage of his mysterious ...
... looked , and to have slipped forever through the fingers of scrupulous history . It is true , that certain of the early provincial poets , of whom there were great numbers in the Nieuw Nederlandts , taking advantage of his mysterious ...
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... looked and how big , You would have thought him for to be Some Egyptian porcupig . He frighted all - cats , dogs , and all , Each cow , each horse , and each hog ; For fear they did flee , for they took him to be Some strange outlandish ...
... looked and how big , You would have thought him for to be Some Egyptian porcupig . He frighted all - cats , dogs , and all , Each cow , each horse , and each hog ; For fear they did flee , for they took him to be Some strange outlandish ...
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... looked thitherward . The opposite side of the chamber was ornamented with the full- length portrait of a young lady , arrayed in the faded magnificence of silk , satin , and brocade , and with a visage as faded as her dress . Above half ...
... looked thitherward . The opposite side of the chamber was ornamented with the full- length portrait of a young lady , arrayed in the faded magnificence of silk , satin , and brocade , and with a visage as faded as her dress . Above half ...
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... looked as if they had never known what youth or pleasure was , but had been the offspring of Nature's dotage , and always the gray , decrepit , sapless , miserable creatures , who now sat stoop- ing around the doctor's table , without ...
... looked as if they had never known what youth or pleasure was , but had been the offspring of Nature's dotage , and always the gray , decrepit , sapless , miserable creatures , who now sat stoop- ing around the doctor's table , without ...
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... looked at old Dr. Heidegger , who sat in his carved arm - chair , holding the rose of half a century , which he had rescued from among the fragments of the shat- tered vase . At the motion of his hand , the four rioters resumed their ...
... looked at old Dr. Heidegger , who sat in his carved arm - chair , holding the rose of half a century , which he had rescued from among the fragments of the shat- tered vase . At the motion of his hand , the four rioters resumed their ...
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Agamemnon agin ain't answered apple apple-pie asked Aunt Billy Bolus Bolus's BORN Breitmann called chimera Consul Coquette Croesus Deacon Marble dear Dennis doctor dollars dress Elizabeth Eliza eyes fleeting dream Fountain of Youth Frederic Ingham G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS gentlemen give glasses Governor half hand head hear heard Heidegger Hepsy horse Inchkenneth Indian pudding Jack Josh Green kind knob Kurz Pacha laff laugh linens Lisette little boys looked Malibran Medbourne ment mind never Newport Oglethorpe Josh once Ovid person Peter Stuyvesant Peterkin Polly poor Potiphar pretty replied round Sam Lawson Sandemanianism Schulemberg seemed side Signor Garcia smiling Solomon John soul Sparrowgrass Squire stood story sure talk thing thought tion told took turn whistling Widow Wycherly word Wouter Wouter Van Twiller young Youth
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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 crooknecks hung, An' in amongst 'em rusted The ole queen's-arm thet gran'ther Young Fetched back f'om Concord — busted.
Página 197 - I'd better call agin"; Says she, "Think likely, Mister"; Thet last word pricked him like a pin, An' . . . Wai, he up an' kist her. When Ma bimeby upon 'em slips, Huldy sot pale ez ashes, All kin' o' smily roun' the lips An' teary roun
Página 2 - By the first, many a smatterer acquires the reputation of a man of quick parts ; by the other many a dunderpate, like the owl, the stupidest of birds, comes to be considered the very type of wisdom.
Página 2 - The renowned Wouter (or Walter) Van Twiller was descended from a long line of Dutch burgomasters, who had successively dozed away their lives, and grown fat upon the bench of magistracy in Rotterdam; and who had comported themselves with such singular wisdom and propriety, that they were never either heard or talked of — which, next to being universally applauded, should be the object of ambition of all magistrates and — [^Tilers.
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 9 - The sage Wouter took them one after the other, and having poised them in his hands, and attentively counted over the number of leaves, fell straightway into a very great doubt, and smoked for half an hour without saying a word...
Página 172 - Round-hoofd, short-jointed, fetlocks shag and long, Broad breast, full eye, small head, and nostril wide, High crest, short ears, straight legs and passing strong, Thin mane, thick tail, broad buttock, tender hide : Look, what a horse should have he did not lack, Save a proud rider on so proud a back.
Página 224 - 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 196 - The side she breshed felt full o' sun Ez a south slope in Ap'il. She thought no v'ice hed sech a swing Ez his'n in the choir; My! when he made Ole Hunderd ring, She knowed the Lord was nigher. An...
Página 230 - 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.