The Song of MilkanwathaTickell & Grinne, 1856 - 144 páginas |
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... never entered . The reason , however , is obvious - since our estimates of things are always relative , and he who keeps a pig or grows a square yard of potatoes among a people dis- tinctively savage , judged by their standard of labor ...
... never entered . The reason , however , is obvious - since our estimates of things are always relative , and he who keeps a pig or grows a square yard of potatoes among a people dis- tinctively savage , judged by their standard of labor ...
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... never , not for no one , did n't nothing , a- rolling , a - sitting , etc. , are retained because of their strik- ing analogy to words and expressions representing the same ideas in the Feejee tongue . The word that designates the Water ...
... never , not for no one , did n't nothing , a- rolling , a - sitting , etc. , are retained because of their strik- ing analogy to words and expressions representing the same ideas in the Feejee tongue . The word that designates the Water ...
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Marc Antony Henderson. And the very wild beasts , also , Ever sounding , never ceasing , Going when you think it's stopping , Going as a woman's tongue goes , As a lively woman's tongue goes ; I would speak up , I would tell him , " From ...
Marc Antony Henderson. And the very wild beasts , also , Ever sounding , never ceasing , Going when you think it's stopping , Going as a woman's tongue goes , As a lively woman's tongue goes ; I would speak up , I would tell him , " From ...
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... So he gained from old Marcosset , Much important information , Much which we can never know of In our day and generation— Our degenerate generation . II . MILKANWATHA'S HUNTING . Now , about this time 22 THE SONG OF MILKANWATHA .
... So he gained from old Marcosset , Much important information , Much which we can never know of In our day and generation— Our degenerate generation . II . MILKANWATHA'S HUNTING . Now , about this time 22 THE SONG OF MILKANWATHA .
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... Never gossipped , never back - bit , Never acted mean , as some do , But they did as they ' d be done by 38 THE SONG OF MILKANWATHA .
... Never gossipped , never back - bit , Never acted mean , as some do , But they did as they ' d be done by 38 THE SONG OF MILKANWATHA .
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The Song of Milgenwater: Translated from the Original Feejee Marc Antony Henderson Visualização integral - 1856 |
The Song of Milgenwater: Translated from the Original Feejee Marc Antony Henderson Visualização integral - 1856 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
a-sitting Ague ancient nurse arrows banks of Watta-puddel Bee-del Bee-no-nee Big Dipper big umbrella blow blow-gun bobbing Borneo breezes Brek-e-kex-co-ax Brown bull-frog Cape Ann catnip chippy creek cried Daisy darling Dolly Dolly's duck duck-ponds English eyes Feedle Feejee female fetch Float folks fur-side Good-bye gum-drop hair hear heard her'n hero Hi-ai-ai HIGH-ER hill-side Ho-ang-ho hole Hydropathy jolly Kimo-kairo knew land of Ponee-rag-bag laughing leggins Lingo-sneedel looked lover maple candy Milkan morning musquito never nigh Noodles o'er Oh lor old Marcosset Ouch Pa-pa-mama pickled walnuts pink piped planet Venus Plum-tree POEMS Pogee Pogee-wogee regions farther downward rolled round Rumpalumpkin Rushing river Sang Sara-jane says shrieking Silli-ninkum smoke Song of Hiawatha SONG OF MILKANWATHA spat Spit squirrel stood sweet piper Sweet-Potato sweetheart tail tell things thro tom-tit translator village waddled watha wife wigwam of Marcosset woodchuck Yalla-gal yonder
Passagens conhecidas
Página 140 - MERRILY swinging on brier and weed, Near to the nest of his little dame, Over the mountain-side or mead, Robert of Lincoln is telling his name : Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link, Spink, spank, spink ; Snug and safe is that nest of ours, Hidden among the summer flowers. Chee, chee, chee.
Página 104 - I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth. I knew not where; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth.
Página 106 - THE POET'S SONG. THE rain had fallen, the Poet arose, He pass'd by the town and out of the street, A light wind blew from the gates of the sun, And waves of shadow went over the wheat, And he sat him down in a lonely place, And chanted a melody loud and sweet, That made the wild-swan pause in her cloud, And the lark drop down at his feet. The swallow stopt as he hunted the...
Página 91 - he said, and pointed toward the land ; " This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon." In the afternoon they came unto a land, In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Full-faced above the valley stood the moon ; And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke...
Página 40 - Just as, to a big umbrella Is the handle when it's raining, So a wife is, to her husband; Though the handle do support it, Tis the top keeps all the rain off; Though the top gets all the wetting, 'Tis the handle bears the burden; So the top is good for nothing, If there isn't any handle, And the case holds vice versa.
Página 138 - Take care you there!" said an old woman; "stop! It's blowing gales up there on top — You'll tumble off on t'other side!" But the hurryin' stranger loud replied, "Higher!" "Oh! don't you go up such a shocking night, Come sleep on my lap,
Página 139 - Sayin' which the farmer went home to bed And the singular voice replied overhead, "Higher!" About quarter past six the next afternoon, A man accidentally goin...
Página 40 - ... raining, So a wife is, to her husband; Though the handle do support it, Tis the top keeps all the rain off; Though the top gets all the wetting, 'Tis the handle bears the burden; So the top is good for nothing, If there isn't any handle, And the case holds vice versa. In this way, did Milkanwatha Reason when he was a-thinking, Thinking of his Pogee-wogee, Of the blue-eyed Sweet Potato, In the Village of the Noodles. Song of Milkanwatha 72 "WHAT i THINK OF HIAWATHA...
Página 76 - Pome." In this brief sketch we have given only an outline of the achievements of Milgenwater and the other characters in the work, clipping out here and there a sentence from many equally good. We would again, in conclusion, recommend the book to the attention of all.
Página 138 - ... O'er an eagle eye an auburn lash, And he never stopped shout in' thro' his moustache ! " Higher ! " He saw thro' the windows as he kept gettin' upper A number of families sittin' at supper, But he eyes the slippery rocks very keen And fled as he cried, and cried while a fleein...