The Book of Humorous PoetryWilliam P. Nimmo, 1867 - 464 Seiten |
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... door , 312 48 Take a robin's leg , Take quantum sufficit of meadows and trees , Task a horse beyond his strength , • The day's at hand , the young , the gay , The dusk flies fast through the murky air , 363 179 382 185 142 PAGE The ...
... door , 312 48 Take a robin's leg , Take quantum sufficit of meadows and trees , Task a horse beyond his strength , • The day's at hand , the young , the gay , The dusk flies fast through the murky air , 363 179 382 185 142 PAGE The ...
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... door to the meetin ' - house . As for the pannel , John Black , I'm wae to see him here awa ' , He never wrang'd me ae plack , * Gude send he won clear awa ' ! [ The Orators for the Pannel plead . AIR - Deil tak the wars . Bamboozle ...
... door to the meetin ' - house . As for the pannel , John Black , I'm wae to see him here awa ' , He never wrang'd me ae plack , * Gude send he won clear awa ' ! [ The Orators for the Pannel plead . AIR - Deil tak the wars . Bamboozle ...
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... door , Some three miles from the town , -it might be four ; To whom , one evening , Bolus sent an article , In Pharmacy , that's call'd cathartical , And , on the label of the stuff , He wrote this verse ; Which , one would think , was ...
... door , Some three miles from the town , -it might be four ; To whom , one evening , Bolus sent an article , In Pharmacy , that's call'd cathartical , And , on the label of the stuff , He wrote this verse ; Which , one would think , was ...
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... door - nail Shall I be , if without her . Straight as my leg her shape appears , Oh , were we joined together ! My heart would be scot - free from cares And lighter than a feather . As fine as fivepence is her mien , No drum was ever ...
... door - nail Shall I be , if without her . Straight as my leg her shape appears , Oh , were we joined together ! My heart would be scot - free from cares And lighter than a feather . As fine as fivepence is her mien , No drum was ever ...
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... door I am come here ; Old road , how odd to me Thou dost appear ! Right and left changing sides , Rising and sunk ; Oh , I can plainly see— Road thou art drunk ! Oh , what a twisted face Thou hast , O moon ! One eye shut , t'other eye ...
... door I am come here ; Old road , how odd to me Thou dost appear ! Right and left changing sides , Rising and sunk ; Oh , I can plainly see— Road thou art drunk ! Oh , what a twisted face Thou hast , O moon ! One eye shut , t'other eye ...
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ABRAHAM COWLEY annuity black crows call'd Captain Paton courtier cried dance dead dear Devil Dolt drank drink e'er eyes face fair fellow fools frae give Göttingen grace hair hand head hear heart honest horse humorous Hyst John John Barleycorn Jurym kind as pray King Lady Morgan laugh live look'd Lord maid Monsieur Tonson N. P. WILLIS ne'er never night ninety lines niversity of Göttingen nose o'er OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES once Pannel pass'd Paton no mo PINDAR poems poet poor pride proud quoth Radenovitch ROBERT SOUTHEY round sare Schnapps seem'd Shep sleep smile song soon soul squire sure sweet tell thee there's thet thing THOMAS HOLCROFT thou thought took town Twas vex'd Vicar of Bray wear wife young Yvetot Zounds
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 220 - Little of all we value here Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year Without both feeling and looking queer. In fact, there's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth.
Seite 221 - At half past nine by the meet'n'-house clock,— Just the hour of the Earthquake shock! —What do you think the parson found, When he got up and stared around? The poor old chaise in a heap or mound, As if it had been to the mill and ground! You see, of course, if you're not a dunce, How it went to pieces all at once,— All at once, and nothing first,— Just as bubbles do when they burst.
Seite 195 - Or like the Borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place; Or like the rainbow's lovely form / Evanishing amid the storm.
Seite 384 - ... BACK and side go bare, go bare, Both foot and hand go cold; But, belly, God send thee good ale enough, Whether it be new or old.
Seite 220 - ... chance for one to start, For the wheels were just as strong as the thills, And the floor was just as strong as the sills And the panels just as strong as the floor, And the whipple-tree neither less nor more, And the back-crossbar as strong as the fore.
Seite 87 - On the whole it appears, and my argument shows, With a reasoning the court will never condemn, That the spectacles plainly were made for the Nose, And the Nose was as plainly intended for them.
Seite 196 - And sic a night he taks the road in As ne'er poor sinner was abroad in. The wind blew as 'twad blawn its last; The rattling...
Seite 218 - So the Deacon inquired of the village folk Where he could find the strongest oak, That could n't be split nor bent nor broke, — That was for spokes and floor and sills; He sent for lancewood to make the thills; The crossbars were ash, from the straightest trees, The panels of white-wood, that cuts like cheese, But lasts like iron for things like these; The hubs of logs from the "Settler's ellum...
Seite 86 - So Tongue was the lawyer, and argued the cause With a great deal of skill, and a wig full of learning ; While chief baron Ear sat to balance the laws, So famed for his talent in nicely discerning. In behalf of the Nose it will quickly appear, And your lordship...
Seite 306 - And they hae taen his very heart's blood, And drank it round and round; And still the more and more they drank, Their joy did more abound.