 At half-past nine by the meet'n-house clock, — Just the hour of the Earthquake shock ! — What do you think the parson found, When he got up and stared around ? The poor old chaise in a heap or mound, As if it had been to the mill and ground ! You...  American Wit and Humor - Trang 2421907Xem Toàn bộ - Giới thiệu về cuốn sách này
 | National Sunday school union - 1881 - 600 trang
..."masterpiece," but after all the result was a ridiculous collapse : the handsome " kerridge " fell to pieces-^ " All at once and nothing first, Just as bubbles do when they burst. " It may be well to remark that Oliver Wendell Holmes was born at Cambridge, US, in the year 1809.... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 694 trang
...of the earthquake shock ! no What do you think the parson found, When he got up and stared around ? The poor old chaise in a heap or mound, As if it had...ground ! You see, of course, if you're not a dunce, 115 How it went to pieces all at once — All at once, and nothing first — Just as bubbles do when... | |
 | John McGovern - 1880 - 762 trang
...comes, and the poem concludes : I What do you think the parson found, When he got up and stared around? The poor old chaise in a heap or mound, As if it had...been to the mill and ground ! You see, of course, if you 're not a dunce, How it went to pieces all at once, — All at once, and nothing first, Just as... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - 1880 - 408 trang
...of the earthquake shock! — What do you think the parson found, When he got up and stared around? The poor old chaise in a heap or mound, As if it had...been to the mill and ground ! You see, of course, if you 're not a dunce, How it went to pieces all at once, — All at once, and nothing first, — Just... | |
 | 1890 - 320 trang
...this argument — the only serious one to be refuted — like the deacon's one-boss shay, falls '- To pieces all at once — All at once, and nothing first. Just as bubbles do when they burst." Were the writer a "barbarian," as he is a "Greek," he would answer the question, " Shall we have fraternities?"... | |
 | 1880 - 832 trang
...early settlement of the town was made something like the dissolution of the famous " One-Horse Shay," " All at once and nothing first, — Just as bubbles do when they burst." A generally accepted tradition is authority for the statement that the first settlement made and the... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1881 - 120 trang
...of the Earthquake shock ! — What do you think the parson found, When he got up and stared around ? The poor old chaise in a heap or mound, As if it had...been to the mill and ground. You see, of course, if you 're not a dunce, How it went to pieces all at once, — All at once, and nothing first, — Just... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1881 - 410 trang
...meet'n'-house clock, — then. — What do you think the parson found, When he got up and stared around ? The poor old chaise in a heap or mound, As if it had...been to the mill and ground! You see, of course, if you 're not a dunce, How it went to pieces all at once, — All at once, and nothing first, — Just... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1881 - 1078 trang
...of the Earthquake shock ! — What do you think the parson found, When he got up and stared around ? eathes a benison o'er the sleeping dust, God's-Acre ! Yes, that blessed name imparts Comfort to you 're not a dunce, How it went to pieces all at once, — All at once, and nothing first,-— Just... | |
 | Ferguson - 1881 - 386 trang
...hour of the Earthquake shock I What do you think the parson found When he got up and stared around 1 The poor old chaise in a heap or mound, As if it had been to the mill and ground 1 You see, of course, if you're not a dunce, How it went to pieces all at once — All at once, and... | |
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