 Which I wish to remark, And my language is plain, That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar, Which the same I would rise to explain.  Poems and Stories - Stran 14avtor: Bret Harte - 1912 - 110 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | 1881 - 336 strani
...they were done. I admit some mediums completely beat professed conjurers: — Which I wish to remark, And my language is plain ; That for 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... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1881 - 892 strani
...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... | |
 | Samuel Pasfield Oliver - 1881 - 468 strani
...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... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1881 - 486 strani
...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." by another American writer, which I think good enough to be quoted entire :—... | |
 | 1886 - 666 strani
...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 - 354 strani
...wicked Ho-Ho of the Golden belt! 15 Plain Language From Cruthful 3ames. rHICH I wish to remark — And my language is plain — That for ways that are...vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar: Which the same I would rise to explain. Ah Sin was his name; And I shall not deny In regard to the same What that name... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1882 - 616 strani
...Wadsworth Longfellow. Table Mountain, Cal. PLAIN LANGUAGE FROM TRUTHFUL JAMES. WHICH I wish to remark, — And my language is plain, — That for ways that are...The heathen Chinee is peculiar, — Which the same I would rise to explain. Ah Sin was his name. And I shall not deny In regard to the same What that name... | |
 | Bret Harte - 1882 - 370 strani
...where's Sal ? plain Language from Crutfiful 3Iame0. (TABLE MOUNTAIN, i870.) WHICH I wish to remark, And my language is plain, That for ways that are dark...vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar Which the same I would rise to explain. Ah Sin was his name ; And I shall not deny, In regard to the same, What that... | |
 | Bret Harte - 1882 - 468 strani
...Lord ! where's Sal ? language from Crutfcful 3[ame0. (TABLE MOUNTAIN, 1870.) WHICH I wish to remark, And my language is plain, That for ways that are dark...vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar, Which the same I would rise to explain. Ah Sin was his name ; And I shall not deny, In regard to the same, What that... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1882 - 906 strani
...twenty-nine. WDITHBOP MACKWORTH PRAID. JJUiin Language from <Erntf)fnl James. WHICH I wish to remark — And my language is plain — That for ways that are...vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar, Which the same I would rise to explain. Ah Sin was his name, And I shall not deny In regard to the same What that name... | |
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