 ... about the tragedy, and about Edmund Kean the Elder, which was to play the main principal part in it; and at last when he'd got everybody's expectations up high enough, he rolled up the curtain, and the next minute the king come aprancing out on all...  An Anatomy of Humor - Page 149by Arthur Asa Berger - 192 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | American literature - 1885 - 980 pages
...he went on a-bragging about the tragedy and about Edmund Kean the Elder, which was to play the main principal part in it ; and at last when he'd got everybody's...minute the king come a-prancing out on all fours; and he was painted all over, ring-streaked and striped, all sorts of colors, as splendid as a rainbow.... | |
 | Samuel Langhorne Clemens - Frontier and pioneer life - 1884 - 496 pages
...he went on a-bragging about the tragedy, and about Edmund Kean the Elder, which was to play the main principal part in it ; and at last when he'd got everybody's...and the next minute the king come a-prancing out on TUAGEDY. all fours, naked ; and he was painted all over, ring-streaked-andstriped, all sorts of colours,... | |
 | Mark Twain - Adventure stories - 1896 - 462 pages
...went on a- bragging about the tragedy, and about Edmund Kean the Elder, which was to play the main principal part in it ; and at last when he'd got everybody's...and the next minute the king come a-prancing out on all-fours, naked ; and he was painted all over, ringstreaked-and-striped, all sorts of colors, as splendid... | |
 | Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner - Christian Science - 1899 - 404 pages
...he went on abragging about the tragedy, and about Edmund Kean the Elder, which was to play the main principal part in it; and at last when he'd got everybody's...and the next minute the king come a-prancing out on ail fours, naked; and he was painted all over, ringstreaked-and-striped, all sorts of colors, as splendid... | |
 | Roger Sherman Loomis - American prose literature - 1925 - 576 pages
...he went on a-bragging about the tragedy, and about Edmund Kean the Elder, which was to play the main principal part in it; and at last when he'd got everybody's...all over, ring-streaked-and-striped, all sorts of colours, as splendid as a rainbow. And — but never mind the rest of his outfit; it was just wild,... | |
 | Ray Broadus Browne, Donald M. Winkelman, Allen Hayman, Purdue University - Literary Criticism - 1966 - 180 pages
...burlesque "The Royal Nonesuch" in Huckleberry Finn, in which the King cavorts around the stage naked, "painted all over, ring-streaked-and-striped, all sorts of colors as splendid as a rainbow." In Moby Dick, after a lapse of two chapters, the popular theater material is reintroduced in "The Cabin-Table"... | |
 | John D. Seelye - Fiction - 1987 - 376 pages
...he went on a-bragging about the tragedy, and about Edmund Kean the Elder, which was to play the main principal part in it; and at last when he'd got everybody's...rolled up the curtain, and the next minute the king comes a-prancing out on all fours, naked; and he was painted all over, ring-streaked-and-striped, all... | |
 | Mark Twain - Fiction - 1989 - 324 pages
...he went on a-bragging about the tragedy, and about Edmund Kean the Elder, which was to play the main principal part in it; and at last when he'd got everybody's...g-streaked-and-striped, all sorts of colors, as splendid as a rainbow. And—but never mind the rest of his outfit; it was just wild, but it was awful funny. The people most... | |
 | Richard S. Lowry - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 188 pages
...22 He developed this image more fully in Huckleberry Finn (1885), where the Dauphin appears on stage "a-prancing out on all fours, naked; and he was painted,...-streaked-and-striped, all sorts of colors, as splendid as a rain-bow. And—but never mind the rest of his outfit, it was just wild, but it was awful funny. The people most... | |
 | Mark Twain - Fiction - 2001 - 658 pages
...and ahout Kdimmd kean the Kldcr. which was lo plav the main principal part in it: and at last \\hen he'd got everybody's expectations up high enough,...the next minute the king come a-prancing out on all lours, naked: and he was painted all over, ringstreaked-and-striped, all sorts of colors, as splendid... | |
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