 WHEN I was a boy, there was but one permanent ambition among my comrades in our village* on the west bank of the Mississippi River. That was, to be a steamboatman. We had transient ambitions of other sorts, but they were only transient. When a circus...  The Atlantic Monthly - Pagina 691875Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | 1888 - 82 pagine
...as he says in Old Times on the Mississippi, published in the Atlantic Monthly for 1875, an ambition to be a steamboat-man. ' We had transient ambitions...circus came and went it left us all burning to become circus clowns ; the first negro minstrel show that came to our section left us all suffering to try... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1901 - 506 pagine
...there. I believe there has been nothing like it elsewhere in the world. CHAPTER IV. THE BOYS' AMBITION WHEN I was a boy, there was but one permanent ambition...become clowns ; the first negro minstrel show that ever came to our section left us all suffering to try that kind of life ; now and then we had a hope... | |
 | Robert Herrick, Lindsay Todd Damon - 1902 - 444 pagine
...Legend of Sleepy Hollow. 2. When I was a boy there was but one permanent ambition among my comrades on the west bank of the Mississippi River that was to...to become clowns the first negro minstrel show that ever came to our section left us all suffering to try that kind of life now and then we had a hope... | |
 | Robert Herrick, Lindsay Todd Damon - 1902 - 442 pagine
...twilight- that hour so favorable to the lover's eloquence. — IRVING: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. 2. When I was a boy there was but one permanent ambition among my comrades on the west bank of the Mississippi River. and went, it left us all burning to become clowns^jhe first... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1903 - 491 pagine
...there. I believe there has been nothing like it elsewhere in the world. CHAPTER IV. THE BOYS' AMBITION WHEN I was a boy, there was but one permanent ambition...become clowns ; the first negro minstrel show that ever came to our section left us all suffering to try that kind of life ; now and then we had a hope... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1910 - 184 pagine
...Versailles; and all by virtue of a feeble human voice, inaudible a half a mile. IV THE BOYS' AMBITION WHEN I was a boy there was but one permanent ambition...it left us all burning to become clowns; the first negrominstrel show that ever came to our section left us all suffering to try that kind of life; now... | |
 | Robert Herrick, Lindsay Todd Damon - 1911 - 592 pagine
...beheld it and was commonly called the Treasure Valley. — Ruskin: The King of the Golden River. 2. When I was a boy there was but one permanent ambition among my comrades on the west bank of the Mississippi River that was to be a steamboatman we had transient ambitions... | |
 | Park Pressey - 1916 - 252 pagine
...pillows in a roomy, comfortable bed 15 229 But we shall best hear about his "call" in his own words. ' ' When I was a boy, there was but one permanent ambition among my comrades in our village. That was to be a steamboat man. We had transient ambitions of other sorts, but they were only transient.... | |
 | Philander Priestley Claxton, James McGinniss - 1917 - 592 pagine
...You discover what was the ambition of every boy in the village where Mark Twain spent his boyhood. When I was a boy, there was but one permanent ambition...become clowns ; the first negro minstrel show that ever came to our section left us all suffering to try that kind of life ; now and then we had a hope... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1917 - 536 pagine
...there. I believe there has been aothing like it elsewhere in the world. CHAPTER IV. THE BOYS' AMBITION WHEN I was a boy, there was but one permanent ambition...become clowns ; the first negro minstrel show that ever came to our section left us all suffering to try that kind of life ; now and then we had a hope... | |
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