the very sound of the west
but there is a something of a heat of mind, or an irritation ₁
a something of more than common interest, of
even awful in the very sound of “The West” ₂
and that a something of deception ₃
which every cowboy pretends to,
and a something of logic ₄ to go out and be somebody, to
become “a something of something” ₅
gave a something of reality to their pretensions, which
softened if it could not altogether remove the ridicule ₆
Next you’ll be making it out as we’re nought but a something of nothing ₇
while superstitions are fast becoming a something of the past.
But enough of these absurdities;
How we raised the wind ₈
sources, their respective details at the more’s
aside — italics not in sources
- A Digest of the Evidence in the Second Report of the Select Committee on the State of Ireland (London, 1825)
more - Mark Bancroft, “Mark Lee’s Narrative” in Atkinson’s Casket (Philadelphia; July 1834)
more - “Observations on the Modern Drama” in The Literary Magnet (London, 1824)
more - “News and Comments,” in The Classical Review (London; March 1909)
more - Craig T. Cocher, “Living a Life of Consequence : How Not to Chase a Fake Rabbit,” in Scott T. Allison, Craig T. Kocher, and George R. Goethals, eds., Frontiers in Spiritual Leadership : Discovering the Better Angels of Our Nature (2017)
more - Frances Trollope. A Romance of Vienna (London, 1838)
more - W. Edwards Tirebuck, Meg of the Scarlet Foot : A Novel (New York, 1898)
more - “Matrimonial Superstitions” (and title of following piece), in Tit-bits (Manchester, April 21, 1883)
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