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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... doubt , before the expiration of the winter , that this bill will pass , than I have that the annual tax bills will pass , and greater certainty than this no man can have , for Franklin tells us , there are but two things certain in ...
... doubt , before the expiration of the winter , that this bill will pass , than I have that the annual tax bills will pass , and greater certainty than this no man can have , for Franklin tells us , there are but two things certain in ...
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... doubt He was in for it now , and couldn't back out . So calling Phaëton up in a trice , He gave the youth a bit of advice : — " " Parce stimulis , utere loris ! " ( A " stage direction , " of which the core is , Don't use the whip ...
... doubt He was in for it now , and couldn't back out . So calling Phaëton up in a trice , He gave the youth a bit of advice : — " " Parce stimulis , utere loris ! " ( A " stage direction , " of which the core is , Don't use the whip ...
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... doubt , the very one . Why , sir , your son will certainly surpass the Admirable Crichton . Sir Isaac Newton will be a perfect automaton , compared with him ; and the sages of antiquity , if resuscitated , would hang their heads in ...
... doubt , the very one . Why , sir , your son will certainly surpass the Admirable Crichton . Sir Isaac Newton will be a perfect automaton , compared with him ; and the sages of antiquity , if resuscitated , would hang their heads in ...
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... doubt , doctor , but you have richly deserved it . I warrant a man doesn't get A double S tack'd to his name for nothing . Pang . Decidedly not , my lord . Yes , I am now artium societatis socius . My two last publications did that ...
... doubt , doctor , but you have richly deserved it . I warrant a man doesn't get A double S tack'd to his name for nothing . Pang . Decidedly not , my lord . Yes , I am now artium societatis socius . My two last publications did that ...
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... doubt . Puff . Why , yes . Well , sir , at last , what with bankruptcies , fires , gouts , dropsies , imprisonments , and other valuable calami- ties , having got together a pretty handsome sum , I determined to quit a business which ...
... doubt . Puff . Why , yes . Well , sir , at last , what with bankruptcies , fires , gouts , dropsies , imprisonments , and other valuable calami- ties , having got together a pretty handsome sum , I determined to quit a business which ...
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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...