The Humorous Poetry of the English Language: From Chaucer to Saxe ... with Notes, Explanatory and BiographicalMason brothers, 1856 - 689 Seiten |
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... poor intoxicated little knave , Now senseless , floating on the fragrant wave ; Why not content the cakes alone to munch ? Dearly thou pay'st for buzzing round the bowl ; Lost to the world , thou busy sweet - lipped soul— Thus Death ...
... poor intoxicated little knave , Now senseless , floating on the fragrant wave ; Why not content the cakes alone to munch ? Dearly thou pay'st for buzzing round the bowl ; Lost to the world , thou busy sweet - lipped soul— Thus Death ...
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... , Thou hast full leave to tread upon a thorn . " Yet some there are , of men , I think the worst , Poor imps ! unhappy , if they can't be cursed- Forever brooding over Misery's eggs , As though life's pleasure 24 MISCELLANEOUS .
... , Thou hast full leave to tread upon a thorn . " Yet some there are , of men , I think the worst , Poor imps ! unhappy , if they can't be cursed- Forever brooding over Misery's eggs , As though life's pleasure 24 MISCELLANEOUS .
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... poor flesh , and quarrel with the fish , Curse cook and wife , and , loathing , eat and growl . A cart - load , lo , their stomachs steal , Yet swear they can not make a meal . I like not the blue - devil - hunting crew ! I hate to drop ...
... poor flesh , and quarrel with the fish , Curse cook and wife , and , loathing , eat and growl . A cart - load , lo , their stomachs steal , Yet swear they can not make a meal . I like not the blue - devil - hunting crew ! I hate to drop ...
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... poor dear fellow safe to school At Dr. Smith's in Little Chelsea ! " Heaven send he flog the little fool ! From Lady Snooks : " Dear Sir , you know You promised me last week a Rebus ; A something smart and apropos , For my new Album ...
... poor dear fellow safe to school At Dr. Smith's in Little Chelsea ! " Heaven send he flog the little fool ! From Lady Snooks : " Dear Sir , you know You promised me last week a Rebus ; A something smart and apropos , For my new Album ...
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... poor human nature hum ? There's no such season . The Spring ! I shrink and shudder at her name ! For why , I find her breath a bitter blighter ! And suffer from her blows as if they came From Spring the Fighter . Her praises , then ...
... poor human nature hum ? There's no such season . The Spring ! I shrink and shudder at her name ! For why , I find her breath a bitter blighter ! And suffer from her blows as if they came From Spring the Fighter . Her praises , then ...
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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.