| 1881 - 520 páginas
...we found on his nails, which were taper, What is frequent in tapers — that 's wax. Which is why I remark, And my language is plain, That for ways that...The heathen Chinee is peculiar — Which the same I am free to maintain. BRET HARTE. Midges. SHE is talking Eesthetics, the dear clever creature ! Upon... | |
| 1881 - 336 páginas
...you could find out how they were done. I admit some mediums completely beat professed conjurers: — Which I wish to remark, And my language is plain ;...ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The sweet ' mejum ' is peculiar, Though the same I can't rise to explain. " But, my dear N., how would... | |
| 1881 - 322 páginas
...you could find out how they were done. I admit some mediums completely beat professed conjurers: — Which I wish to remark, And my language is plain ;...ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The sweet ' mejum ' is peculiar, Though the same I can't rise to explain. " But, my dear N., how would... | |
| Juliana Horatia Ewing - 1881 - 370 páginas
...Chieftains are scattered frj, Truth is a fixed star, Eileen aroon !" CHAPTER XXVIII. " Which is why I remark, And my language is plain, That for ways that...tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar." Bret Harte. ALISTER did more than pick pink-pale oleanders by the dyke side that morning. His business... | |
| John Bartlett - 1881 - 892 páginas
...labour 's done : J Two pale feet cross'd in rest, The race is won. Now and Afterward1. BRET HARTE. That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar. Plain Language from Truthful Jame1. Ah Sin was his name! Ibid. With the smile that was childlike and... | |
| Marcius Willson - 1881 - 486 páginas
...was Bret Harte's " Heathen Chinee," as told in " Plain Language from Truthful James," beginning,— " Which I wish to remark,— And my language is plain,— That for ways that are dark, i And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar: Which the same I would rise to explain."... | |
| Samuel Pasfield Oliver - 1881 - 468 páginas
...humour : — " Which I wish to remark — Ami my language is plain — That for wпу s ti int aro dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar, Which the same I wonld rise to explain." The Europeans alone were allowed on the upper deck, where also were placed... | |
| 1886 - 666 páginas
...clever and entertaining," and which was fervid and eloquent as well, the speaker perpetrated the joke " That for ways that are dark and for tricks that are vain the American Bar is peculiar." The joke seemed to me appropriate, but not original. Your contemporary evidently... | |
| 1882 - 812 páginas
...we found on his nails, which were taper, What is frequent in tapers — that's wax. Which is why I remark, And my language is plain, That for ways that...The heathen Chinee is peculiar — Which the same I am free to maintain. BRET HA* LITTLE BREECHES. I DON'T go much on religion, I never ain't had no show... | |
| Charles Anderson Dana - 1882 - 906 páginas
...strong. Yet I state but the facts; And we found on his nails, which were taper, 482 Which is why I remark — And my language is plain — That for ways...vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar, Which the same I am free to maintain. BRIT HAHTE. $ane Brdtmarm'e HANS I'.it KITM A NX gife a barty, Dey had biano-blayin... | |
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