The Humorous Speaker: Being a Choice Collection of Amusing Pieces, Both in Prose and Verse, Original and Selected : Consisting of Dialogues, Soliloquies, Parodies &c. : Designed for the Use of Schools, Literary Societies, Debating Clubs, Social Circles and Domestic EntertainmentIvison & Phinney, 1858 - 408 Seiten |
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... King's Visit to a Cathedral . The Doctor and his Apprentice .. Death of a Blacksmith .. DIALOGUE - What we Wish we Readily Believe . Hands vs. Heads .... DIALOGUE - Opposite Natures . What Mr. Robinson Thinks . The Wind in a Frolic ...
... King's Visit to a Cathedral . The Doctor and his Apprentice .. Death of a Blacksmith .. DIALOGUE - What we Wish we Readily Believe . Hands vs. Heads .... DIALOGUE - Opposite Natures . What Mr. Robinson Thinks . The Wind in a Frolic ...
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... kings had a right divine ,. And that the people were herds of swine , That nobles alone were fit to rule , That the poor were unimproved by school , That ceaseless toil was the proper fate Of all but THE HUMOROUS SPEAKER . 41 John ...
... kings had a right divine ,. And that the people were herds of swine , That nobles alone were fit to rule , That the poor were unimproved by school , That ceaseless toil was the proper fate Of all but THE HUMOROUS SPEAKER . 41 John ...
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... King , the apothecary , One morning in a strange vagary , That moved his patient's deep amazement , Toss'd all his potions from the casement , And placing in their stead a phial , Exclaimed- " take this - you've no idea What good ...
... King , the apothecary , One morning in a strange vagary , That moved his patient's deep amazement , Toss'd all his potions from the casement , And placing in their stead a phial , Exclaimed- " take this - you've no idea What good ...
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... King ! Indeed , he more than merited those repeated bursts of applause which he drew from a most brilliant and judicious audience ! As to the scenery- the miraculous powers of Mr. De Loutherburgh's pencil are universally acknowledged ...
... King ! Indeed , he more than merited those repeated bursts of applause which he drew from a most brilliant and judicious audience ! As to the scenery- the miraculous powers of Mr. De Loutherburgh's pencil are universally acknowledged ...
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... king did Oliver Cromwell behead ? " " William the Conqueror . " " What king reigned before George the First ? " " George the Second . " " What is a quadruped ? " " A large fish . " " What are you- vegetable , animal , or mineral ? " " I ...
... king did Oliver Cromwell behead ? " " William the Conqueror . " " What king reigned before George the First ? " " George the Second . " " What is a quadruped ? " " A large fish . " " What are you- vegetable , animal , or mineral ? " " I ...
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Seite 255 - My liege, I did deny no prisoners. But, I remember, when the fight was done, When I was dry with rage, and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat, trimly...
Seite 315 - GUVENER B. is a sensible man; He stays to his home an' looks arter his folks; He draws his furrer ez straight ez he can, An' into nobody's tater-patch pokes; — But John P. Robinson he Sez he wunt vote fer Guvener B. My! aint it terrible? Wut shall we du? We can't never choose him, o...
Seite 221 - As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky, So up to the housetop the coursers they flew, With the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas, too. And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof The prancing and pawing of each little hoof. As I drew in my head, and was turning around, Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound. He...
Seite 85 - I look for protection, for assistance, for comfort, and for consolation; in single gentlemen I shall perpetually see something to remind me of what Mr. Bardell was when he first won my young and untried affections; to a single gentleman, then, shall my lodgings be let.
Seite 288 - He was in logic a great critic, Profoundly skilled in analytic; He could distinguish and divide A hair 'twixt south and south-west side; On either which he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute. He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument, a man's no horse; He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a lord may be an owl, A calf an alderman, a goose a justice, And rooks committee-men and trustees. He'd run in debt by disputation, And pay with ratiocination.
Seite 221 - He was dressed all in fur from his head to his foot, And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot; A bundle of toys he had flung on his back, And he looked" like a peddler just opening his pack.
Seite 67 - SEA The Sea! the Sea! the open Sea! The blue, the fresh, the ever free! Without a mark, without a bound, It runneth the earth's wide regions 'round; It plays with the clouds; it mocks the skies; Or like a cradled creature lies. I'm on the Sea! I'm on the Sea! I am where I would ever be...
Seite 220 - Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.
Seite 389 - Should I turn upon the true prince ? Why, thou knowest, I am as valiant as Hercules: but beware instinct; the lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter ; I was a coward on instinct. I shall think the better of myself and thee, during my life; I, for a valiant lion, and thou for a true prince.
Seite 120 - 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...