The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.], Volume 22Harper & brothers, 1899 |
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Page 126 - That's all right— that's all right — if you'll hold my box a minute, I'll go and get you a frog.
Page 60 - ... midnight possess their own repose, For the weary winds are silent, or the moon is in the deep : Some respite to its turbulence unresting ocean , knows; Whatever moves, or toils, or grieves, hath its appointed sleep. Thou in the grave shalt rest...
Page 125 - Well," Smiley says, easy and careless, "he's good enough for one thing, I should judge — he can outjump ary frog in Calaveras County.
Page 124 - ... things, till you couldn't rest, and you couldn't fetch nothing for him to bet on but he'd match you. He ketched a frog one day, and took him home, and said he...
Page 125 - ... slopped around in the mud for a long time, and finally he ketched a frog, and fetched him in, and give him to this feller, and says: "Now, if you're ready, set him alongside of Dan'l, with his forepaws just even with Dan'l's, and I'll give the word.
Page 60 - Tempt not with one last tear thy friend's ungentle mood : Thy lover's eye, so glazed and cold, dares not entreat thy stay: Duty and dereliction guide thee back to solitude.
Page 39 - I am now but little inclined to contest this point. I certainly hate her with all my heart and soul. . . . "It is a sight which awakens an inexpressible sensation of disgust and horror, to see her caress my poor little lanthe, in whom I may hereafter find the consolation of sympathy. I sometimes...
Page 78 - The Pathfinder and The Deerslayer stand at the head of Cooper's novels as artistic creations. There are others of his works which contain parts as perfect as are to be found in these, and scenes even more thrilling. Not one can be compared with either of them as a finished whole. The defects in both of these tales are comparatively slight. They were pure works of art. — Prof. Lounsbury. The five tales reveal an extraordinary fulness of invention. . . . One of the very greatest characters in fiction,...
Page 138 - Half twain!" This was frightful! I seized the bell-ropes and stopped the engines. "Quarter twain! Quarter twain! Mark twain!" I was helpless. I did not know what in the world to do. I was quaking from head to foot, and I could have hung my hat on my eyes, they stuck out so far.
Page 147 - Indians will be attended to; and the cowboys ; and the gold and silver miners ; and the negroes ; and the Idiots and Congressmen; and the Irish, the Germans, the Italians, the Swedes, the French, the Chinamen, the Greasers; and the Catholics, the Methodists, the Presbyterians, the Congregationalists, the Baptists, the Spiritualists, the Mormons, the Shakers, the Quakers, the Jews, the Campbellites, the infidels, the Christian Scientists, the MindCurists, the Faith-Curists, the train-robbers, the...