Then Abner Dean of Angel's raised a point of order — when A chunk of old red sandstone took him in the abdomen, And he smiled a kind of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor, And the subsequent proceedings interested him no more. The American Educational Monthly - Page 2921870Full view - About this book
| Electronic journals - 1906 - 562 pages
...though there are probably many others. In 'The Society upon the Stanislaus,' Bret Harte writes : — Then Abner Dean of Angel's raised a point of order...chunk of old red sandstone took him in the abdomen. Here scansion seoms to require the penultimate syllable of the last word to be short; but Truthful... | |
| Electronic journals - 1906 - 682 pages
...though there are probably many others. In 'The Society upon the Stanislaus,' Bret Harte writes :— Then Abner Dean of Angel's raised a point of order—...chunk of old red sandstone took him in the abdomen. Here scansion seems to require the penultimate syllable of the last word to be short; but Truthful... | |
| American essays - 1871 - 798 pages
...vault " ; and Truthful James continues : — " Now I hold it is not decent for a scientific gent To say another is an ass, — at least, to all intent : Nor should the individual who happens 10 be meant Reply by heaving rocks at him to any great extent. " Then Abner Dean of Angel's raised... | |
| George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1873 - 586 pages
...shining lights are irresistibly comic. Thus : " Now I hold it is not decent for a scientific gent To say another is an ass — at least to all intent ; Nor...Reply by heaving rocks at him to any great extent." Nevertheless " Abner, Dean of Angel's, raised a point of order — when A chunk of old red sandstone... | |
| 1873 - 618 pages
...shining lights are irresistibly comic. Thus : " Now I hold it is not decent for a scientific gent To say another is an ass — at least to all intent ; Nor...Reply by heaving rocks at him to any great extent." Nevertheless " Abner, Dean of Angel's, raised a point of order — when A chunk of old red sandstone... | |
| Francis Bret Harte - 1871 - 186 pages
...on several occasions he had cleaned out the Now I hold it is not decent for a scientific gent To say another is an ass, — at least, to all intent ; Nor...chunk of old red sandstone took him in the * abdomen, And he smiled a kind of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor, And the subsequent proceedings interested... | |
| John Mead Gould - Maine - 1871 - 910 pages
...Dean of Angel's, was just on the point of bringing himself into notice and making a great effort — " when, A chunk of old red sandstone Took him in the ab-do-men, And he smiled a sort of sickly smile, And curled up on the floor, And the subsequent jiroceedings Interested... | |
| Francis Bret Harte - 1880 - 288 pages
...• The Society upon tlie Stanislaus. 67 Now, I hold it is not decent for a scientific gent To say another is an ass, — at least, to all intent : Nor...chunk of old red sandstone took him in the abdomen ; And he smiled a kind of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor, And the subsequent proceedings... | |
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