 | Fred Ottoboni, M. Alice Ottoboni - 2002 - 228 Seiten
...driven hard for a hundred years and then, the poem continues, suddenly fell apart, and there was... The poor old chaise in a heap or mound. As if it had...been to the mill and ground! You see, of course, if you 're not a dunce, How it went to pieces all at once, All at once, and nothing first, Just as bubbles... | |
 | Darrel Abel - 2002 - 538 Seiten
...A general flavor of mild decay, But nothing local, as one may say, when the wonderful one-hoss shay went to pieces all at once, — All at once, and nothing first, — Just as bubbles do when they burst. A special mark of Holmes' work is his fondness for the use of analogy, as in "The Deacon's Masterpiece."... | |
 | Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, Thomas Travisano - 2003 - 770 Seiten
...hour of the Earthquake shock! What do you think the parson found, When he got up and stared around? The poor old chaise in a heap or mound, As if it had...as bubbles do when they burst. End of the wonderful one-hoss shay. Logic is logic. That's all I say. 1858 A "one-hoss shay" is a wooden chaise or carriage... | |
 | Andrew Walsh, Mark Silk - 2004 - 190 Seiten
...estimated, precisely 1855 when, after "first a shiver, and then a thrill" that New England's old order "went to pieces all at once, — All at once and nothing first, — Just as bubbles do when they are burst." It has been a long time since the homogeneous Yankee New England was supplanted by the... | |
 | Linda Sterling - 2004 - 265 Seiten
...shay that was built in such a logical way it ran for a 100 years to a day, And then all of a sudden it . . , went to pieces all at once all at once and nothing first. " -Oliver Wendell Holmes On March 10,1997, I woke to a delicate morning. I shall always look back on... | |
 | Edward J. Masoro, Steven N. Austad - 2006 - 682 Seiten
...classic example of the "One Hoss Shay," made famous in Oliver Wendel Holmes' "The Deacon's Masterpiece": The poor old chaise in a heap or mound, As if it had...nothing first, Just as bubbles do when they burst. B. Gene Networks Classic studies of aging relied on forward or reverse genetic techniques to identify... | |
 | Jelle Zeilinga de Boer, Donald Theodore Sanders - 2005 - 310 Seiten
...of the Earthquake shock! — What do you think the parson found, When he got up and stared around? The poor old chaise in a heap or mound, As if it had been to the mill and ground. End of the wonderful one-hoss-shay. Logic is logic. That's all I say.1 Holmes, who lived in Boston,... | |
 | Irene Gammel - 2005 - 321 Seiten
...Cavendish farmer Darnley Clark and brother of Chesley, Wilber, Maggie, Ernest, and Campsie (see fig. 1.7). 'Went to pieces all at once, All at once and nothing first, Just as bubbles do when they burst.' I felt as flat as James' society. Oh dear, but I was in the doleful dumps. Couldn't even smile. As... | |
 | William Mathews - 2005 - 377 Seiten
...la$t stood stiK." Instead of this, the toilers of to-day drop like Holmes's "one-boss shay," which " Went to pieces all at once, All at once, and nothing first, — Just as bubbles do when they borst," or, if they are permitted to linger on with a kind of death-inlife, the result of all this... | |
 | Muriel R. Gillick - 2006 - 362 Seiten
...concluding verse is: — 321 — What do you think the parson found, When he got up and stared around? The poor old chaise in a heap or mound, As if it had...nothing first, Just as bubbles do when they burst. Quoted from www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/1157. 21. KA Hesse, "Terminal Care of the Very Old: Changes... | |
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At half past nine by the meet'n'-house clock,— Just the hour of the Earthquake shock! —What do you think the parson found, When he got up and stared around? The poor old chaise in a heap or mound, As if it had been to the mill and ground! You see,... 
