 | Gleanings - 1882
...found, When lie not up and stared around ! The poor old chaise in a heap or икнпк! . *, .\ • As if it had been to the mill and ground ! You see, of eourse, if you're not a duiiee, How it went to pieces all at once — All at once, and nothing first,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1883 - 384 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...as bubbles do when they burst. End of the wonderful one-hoss shay. Logic is logic. That's all I say. IParsoi1 Uurell's OR, THE PRESIDENT'S OLD ARM-CHAIR.... | |
 | Thomas W. Handford - 1881 - 410 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...as bubbles do when they burst. End of the wonderful one-hoss shay. Logic is logic. That's all I say. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. M BINGEN ON THE RHINE. A soldier... | |
 | John Hamer - 1883 - 318 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...as bubbles do when they burst. End of the wonderful one-hoss shay. Logic is logic. That's all I say. _J HOW THE OLD HORSE WON THE BET. DEDICATED BY A CONTRIBUTOR... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1883 - 343 Seiten
...of the Earthquake shock ! —What do you think tha 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. 1 think there is one habit, — I said to our company... | |
 | Otis Henry Tiffany - 1883 - 912 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...once — All at once, and nothing first — Just as the bubbles do when they burst. End of the wonderful one-boss shay. Logic is Logic. That's all I say.... | |
 | American humour - 1883 - 318 Seiten
...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 I You see, of course, if you're not a dunce, How it went to pieces all at once, — All at once, and... | |
 | William Mathews - 1883 - 365 Seiten
...last stood ttill." Instead of this, the toilers of to-day drop like Holmes's "one-hoss shay," which " Went to pieces all at once, All at once, and nothing first, — Just as bubbles do when they "burst," or, if they are permitted to linger on with a kind of death-inlife, the result of all this excitement... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1883 - 411 Seiten
...and ground ! You see, of course, if you 're not a dunce, How it went to pieces all at once, — Alt at once, and nothing first, — Just as bubbles do when they burst. End of the wonderful one-hoss shay. Logic is logic. That's all I say. 1 think there is one habit, — I said to our company... | |
 | 1884
...don't you? Don't you ? There's Mr. Ballard dancing again. I know he'll go to pieces some day — ' All at once and nothing first, just as bubbles do when they burst.' " " Oh, here are our friends, with mamma. Don't Helen look handsome tonight?" Lord Skye's sleepy eyes... | |
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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,... 
