| Henry Allon - 1886 - 618 str.
...hez nowise jined ; And I shouldn't gretly wonder Ef there's thousan's o' my mind. Again — Ez for war, I call it murder — There you hev it plain an' flat. I don't want to go no furder, Than my Testiment for that. God hez sed so plump an' fairly, It's ez long ez it is broad ; An' you've got to... | |
| David W. Bartlett - 1855 - 440 str.
...purposely in the rough, exaggerated, Yankee style. Hosea gives his ideas of war as follows : "Ez for war, I call it murder,— There you hev it plain an' flat ; I don't want to go no furder Than my teatyment for that ; "God haz sed so plump and fairly, It's ez long ez it is broad, An' you've gut... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1858 - 328 str.
...take sarse an' not be riled ; — * Who'd expect to see a tater All on eend at bein' biled ? Ez fer war, I call it murder, — There you hev it plain...don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that ; God hez sed so plump an' fairly, It's ez long ez it is broad, An' you've gut to git up airly Ef you... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1859 - 236 str.
...To take sarse an' not be riled ; — Who 'd expect to see a tater All on eend at bein' biled? Ez fer war, I call it murder, — There you hev it plain...don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that ; God hez sed so plump an' fairly, It's ez long ez it is broad, An' you Ve gut to git up airly Ef you... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1859 - 226 str.
...To take sarse an' not be riled;— Who 'd expect to see a tater All on eend at bein' biled ? Ez fer .war, I call it murder,— There you hev it plain an' flat; I don't want to go no forder Than my Testyment fer that; God hez sed so plump an' fairly, It's ez long ez it is broad, An'... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1863 - 330 str.
...To take sarse an' not be riled ;— Who'd expect to see a tater All on eend at bein' biled ? Ez fer war, I call it murder,— There you hev it plain an' flat; I don't want to go no furder It's ez long ez it is broad, An' you've gut to git up airly Than my Testyment fer that; God hez sed... | |
| 1918 - 668 str.
...resort, to save things that are dearer than life. Lowell's Hosea Biglow rightly says : — " Ez fer war, I call it murder, — There you hev it plain...don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that; God hez said so plump an' fairly, It's ez long ez it is broad, An" you've gut to git up airly Ef you... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1865 - 226 str.
...To take sarse an' not be riled ;— Who'd expect to see a tater All on eend at bein' biled ? Ez for war, I call it murder, — There you hev it plain an' flat ; I don't want to so no furder Than my Testyment fer that ; God hez said so plump an' fairly, It's ez long ez it is broad,... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1866 - 322 str.
...To take sarse an' not be riled ;— Who'd expect to see a tater All on eend at bein' biled ? Ez fer war, I call it murder,— There you hev it plain an' flat ; I don't want to go no furder It's ez long ez it is broad, An' you've gut to git up airly Than my Testyment fer that ; God hez sed... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1871 - 820 str.
...Biglow's address to the " cruetin sarjant " furnishes an immediate example of what we mean : — " Ezfer war, I call it murder, — There you hev it plain an' flat ; I don' t want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that ; God hez sed so plump an' fairly, It's ez long... | |
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