 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,...  The world of wit and humour, ed. by G.M. Fenn - Page 361edited by - 1899 - 480 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - Satire, American - 1858 - 430 pages
...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, of course, if you're...wonderful one-hoss-shay. Logic is logic. That's all I say. 1 think there is one habit, — I said to our company a day or two afterwards — worse than that of... | |
 | Massachusetts - Massachusetts - 1870 - 1102 pages
...apparatus and the fixtures are in a state of decay, and like the " wonderful one-hoss shay," will go " to pieces all at once — All at once and nothing first, Just as bubbles do when they burst." I would recommend that a re-statement of the case be presented to the legislature at its next session,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 420 pages
...heap or mound, As if it had been to the mill and ground You see, of coarse, if you're not a dune*. How it went to pieces all at once, — All at once, and nothing first, — Ju.it as bubbles do when they burst. End of the wonderful one-hoss-ahar. Ixyic is logic That's... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1859 - 432 pages
...the mill and ground! You see, of course, if you 're not a dunce, How it went to pieces all at ouce ; All 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. The rhythm of Mr Holmes's verses was, we remember,... | |
 | Carriage and wagon making - 1859 - 418 pages
...found, When he got up and started around ? The poor old chaise in a heap or mound, Aa if it had been to the mill and ground! You see, of course, if you're not a dunce, How it weni to picóos all at once, — All at once, and nothiug first, — Just as bubbles do when they burst.... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers, American - 1861 - 446 pages
...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, of course, if you're not a dunce, How it went to pieces all at onceAll at once, and nothing first — Just as bubbles do when they burst. — End of the wonderful... | |
 | English poetry - 1861 - 300 pages
...ground ! You see, of eourse, if you're not a dunee, How it went to pieees all at onee, — All at onee, and nothing first, — Just as bubbles do when they burst. End of the wonderful one-hoss-shay. Logie is logie. That's all I sny. TlIE BALLAD OP ELIZA DAVIS. WM TUACEERAY. ALLIANT gents and lovely... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - Literary Criticism - 1862 - 328 pages
...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, —...as bubbles do when they burst. End of the wonderful one-hoss shay. Logic is logic. That 's all I say. AESTIVATION. AN UNPUBLISHED POEM, BY MY LATE LATIN... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1863 - 528 pages
...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...nothing first, — Just as bubbles do when they burst. 12 End of the wonderful one-hoss shay: Logic is logic. — That 's all I saj. XXIV. — THE PRAIRIES.... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1863 - 530 pages
...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, —...nothing first, — Just as bubbles do when they burst. 12 End of the wonderful one-hoss shay • Logic is logic. — That 's all I say. ANONYMOUS. THE attraction... | |
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