| Henry Allon - Christianity - 1886 - 618 pages
...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 - Reformers - 1855 - 440 pages
...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 - 336 pages
...nater 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...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 want to take in God. 'Taint your... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1859 - 236 pages
...nater 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...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 want to take in God. 'Taint your... | |
| James Russell Lowell - American literature - 1859 - 226 pages
...nater 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 - Poetry - 1861 - 236 pages
...nater 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...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 want to take in God. Taint your... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1863 - 330 pages
...renegaders,) 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... | |
| Bible - 1918 - 668 pages
...a last 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...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 want to... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1865 - 226 pages
...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 - Poetry - 1866 - 322 pages
...renegaders,) 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... | |
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