The Humorous Poetry of the English Language: From Chaucer to Saxe ... with Notes, Explanatory and BiographicalMason brothers, 1856 - 689 Seiten |
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... my first would be . " Were I but what my whole implies , And pass'd by chance across your portal You'd cry ' Can I believe my eyes ? I never saw so queer a mortal ! ' " For then my head would not be on , MISCELLANEOUS . 43.
... my first would be . " Were I but what my whole implies , And pass'd by chance across your portal You'd cry ' Can I believe my eyes ? I never saw so queer a mortal ! ' " For then my head would not be on , MISCELLANEOUS . 43.
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... believe the slander ? Never ! I held thee still to be divine . For me thy color hath a charm , Although ' tis true they call thee Pale ; And be thou cold when I am warm , As late I've been - so high the scale Of FAHRENHEIT and febrile ...
... believe the slander ? Never ! I held thee still to be divine . For me thy color hath a charm , Although ' tis true they call thee Pale ; And be thou cold when I am warm , As late I've been - so high the scale Of FAHRENHEIT and febrile ...
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... , That will a maid believe - a ! She drew a bodkin from her haire , And wip'd it upon her gown - a ; And curs'd be every maiden faire , That will with men lye down - a ! A herb there is , that lowly grows , And 4 * NARRATIVE . 81.
... , That will a maid believe - a ! She drew a bodkin from her haire , And wip'd it upon her gown - a ; And curs'd be every maiden faire , That will with men lye down - a ! A herb there is , that lowly grows , And 4 * NARRATIVE . 81.
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... believe , Now open me the gate - a . The bridge is drawn , the gate is barr'd , My father he has the keys , sir ; But I have for my love prepar'd A shorter way , and easier . Over the moate I've laid a plank Full seventeen feet in ...
... believe , Now open me the gate - a . The bridge is drawn , the gate is barr'd , My father he has the keys , sir ; But I have for my love prepar'd A shorter way , and easier . Over the moate I've laid a plank Full seventeen feet in ...
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... believe What's propagated merely to deceive . ” " Then you force me to say , sir , you're a fool , " Return'd the bragger . Language like this no man can suffer cool : It made the listener stagger ; So , thunder - stricken , he at once ...
... believe What's propagated merely to deceive . ” " Then you force me to say , sir , you're a fool , " Return'd the bragger . Language like this no man can suffer cool : It made the listener stagger ; So , thunder - stricken , he at once ...
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Æsop Beignet Blogg boys Brentford charms Cock cried d'ye think DEAN SWIFT dear delight Devil dish divine Dolly dost e'er EPIGRAMS eyes face fair fancy fear give grace hair hand happy HARRIS BARHAM hast hath head hear heard heart heaven JAMES TAYLOR king kiss lady laugh Lille long-tail'd coat look look'd Lord ma'am maid MATTHEW PRIOR mind Miserable sinners morning N. P. WILLIS ne'er never Nick night niversity nose numbers o'er OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES once PETER PINDAR PINDAR poet poor pray pretty Prince Prince Bishop Pryce PUNCH quoth ROBERT SOUTHEY rose round Saint scarce seem'd sigh sing smile song soul Sultaun swear sweet tell thee there's thet thing THOMAS HOOD THOMAS MOORE thou thought town turn'd verger Whitbread wife young Zounds
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Seite 248 - The cudgel in my nieve did shake, Each bristl'd hair stood like a stake, When wi' an eldritch, stoor quaick, quaick, Amang the springs, Awa ye squatter'd like a drake, On whistling wings. Let warlocks grim, an' wither'd hags, Tell how wi...
Seite 98 - The fair round face, the snowy beard, The velvet of her paws, Her coat, that with the tortoise vies, Her ears of jet and emerald eyes, She saw, and purred applause.
Seite 242 - BETWEEN Nose and Eyes a strange contest arose, The spectacles set them unhappily wrong ; The point in dispute was, as all the world knows, To which the said spectacles ought to belong. So...
Seite 40 - Distrust the condiment that bites so soon; But deem it not, thou man of herbs, a fault To add a double quantity of salt; Four times the spoon with oil of Lucca crown, And twice with vinegar procured from town; And lastly o'er the flavoured compound toss A magic soupcon of anchovy sauce.
Seite 319 - WERTHER had a love for Charlotte Such as words could never utter ; Would you know how first he met her? She was cutting bread and butter. Charlotte was a married lady, And a moral man was Werther, And for all the wealth of Indies, Would do nothing for to hurt her. So he sighed and pined and ogled, And his passion boiled and bubbled, Till he blew his silly brains out, And no more was by it troubled. _*• Charlotte, having seen his body Borne before her on a shutter, Like a well-conducted person,...
Seite 627 - An' gives a good-sized junk to all, — I don't care how hard money is, Ez long ez mine's paid punctooal. I du believe with all my soul In the gret Press's freedom, To pint the people to the goal An...
Seite 316 - And then she danced, — oh, heaven, her dancing! Dark was her hair, her hand was white; Her voice was exquisitely tender; Her eyes were full of liquid light; I never saw a waist so slender...
Seite 32 - For thy sake, Tobacco, I Would do anything but die, And but seek to extend my days Long enough to sing thy praise.
Seite 243 - PRAYER 0 thou, wha in the Heavens dost dwell, Wha, as it pleases best thysel', Sends ane to heaven and ten to hell, A' for thy glory, And no for ony guid or ill They've done afore thee!
Seite 53 - Vicar. His talk was like a stream which runs With rapid change from rocks to roses; It slipped from politics to puns; It passed from Mahomet to Moses; Beginning with the laws which keep The planets in their radiant courses, And ending with some precept deep For dressing eels or shoeing horses.