| George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1863 - 530 pages
...extra charge.) Pirst of November, — the Earthquake-day, — There are traces of age in the onc-hoss shay, A general flavor of mild decay, But nothing local, as one may say. There could n't be, for the Deacon's art Had made it so like in every part That there was n'ta chance for... | |
| James Madison Watson - Calisthenics - 1864 - 434 pages
...morn of its hundredth year Without both feeling and looking queer. In fact, there's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth....decay — • But nothing local, as one may say. There could n't be — for the Deacon's art Had made it so like in every part That there was n'ta chance... | |
| Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1864 - 450 pages
...morn of its hundredth year Without both feeling and looking queer. In fact, there's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth. (This is a moral that runs at large ; Take it.—You're welcome.—No extra charge.) 9. FIRST OF NOVEMBER—the earthquake-day. There are traces... | |
| Humorous poetry - 1867 - 532 pages
...then came fifty, and FIFTY-FIVE. Little of all we value here * In fact, there's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth....Earthquake-day. — There are traces of age in the one-hoss-shay, A general flavour of mild decay, But nothing local, as one may say. There couldn't be,—... | |
| Richard Edwards - Elocution - 1867 - 510 pages
...morn of its hundredth year Without both feeling and looking queer. In fact, there's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth. (This is a moral that runs at large ; Take it. — You 're welcome. — No extra charge.) 9. FIRST OF NOVEMBER, — the earthquake day,-— There... | |
| Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...morn of its hundredth year Without both feeling and looking queer. In fact, there's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth. (This is a moral that runs at large ; Take it. — You 're welcome. — No extra charge.) 9. FIRST OF NOVEMBER, — the earthquake day, — There... | |
| James Payn - 1867 - 326 pages
...happened to a 'bus in the Exhibition-time. It had traces of age on the opening-day, Just a general flavour of mild decay, But " nothing local," as one may say, There couldn't be that, for the patcher's art Had made it so like in every part, That there wasn'ta chance for one to... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - American essays - 1868 - 434 pages
...morn of its hundredth year Without both feeling and looking queer. In fact, there's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth....it — You're welcome. — No extra charge.) FIRST rtf NOVKMRKR, — the Earthquake-day. — There are traces of age in the one-hoss-«hay, A general... | |
| John Swett - Elocution - 1867 - 252 pages
...usual; much the same. Thirty and forty at last arrive, And then come fifty, and FIFTY-FIVE. FIKST OK NOVEMBER, — the Earthquake-day. There are traces...the one-hoss shay, A general flavor of mild decay, Hut nothing local, as one may say. There couldn't be, — for the Deacon's art Had made it so like... | |
| American poetry - 1869 - 310 pages
...of its hundredth year Without both feeling and looking queer. In fact, there 'a nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth. (This is a moral that runs at large ; Take it. — You 're welcome. — No extra charge.) FIRST OF NOVEMBER, — the Earthquake-day There are traces... | |
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