The Humorous Poetry of the English Language: From Chaucer to Saxe ... with Notes, Explanatory and BiographicalMason brothers, 1856 - 689 頁 |
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第 52 頁
... saint or sinner , He found a stable for his steed , And welcome for himself , and dinner . If , when he reached his journey's end , And warmed himself in court or college , He had not gained an honest friend , And twenty curious scraps ...
... saint or sinner , He found a stable for his steed , And welcome for himself , and dinner . If , when he reached his journey's end , And warmed himself in court or college , He had not gained an honest friend , And twenty curious scraps ...
第 56 頁
... saint , or the throne of a prince ; Saint FANNY , my patroness sweet I declare , The queen of my heart and my cane - bottomed chair . When the candles burn low , and the company ' s gone , In the silence of night as I sit here alone- I ...
... saint , or the throne of a prince ; Saint FANNY , my patroness sweet I declare , The queen of my heart and my cane - bottomed chair . When the candles burn low , and the company ' s gone , In the silence of night as I sit here alone- I ...
第 86 頁
... saint - like eyes ; Talks very much , plays idle tricks , While rising stock * her conscience pricks ; When being , poor thing , extremely gravel'd , The secrets op'd , and all unravel'd . But on she will , and secrets tell Of John and ...
... saint - like eyes ; Talks very much , plays idle tricks , While rising stock * her conscience pricks ; When being , poor thing , extremely gravel'd , The secrets op'd , and all unravel'd . But on she will , and secrets tell Of John and ...
第 96 頁
... been shot . One saw the Virgin soon - peccavi cried— Had his soul white - wash'd all so clever ; Then home again he nimbly hied , Made fit , with saints above , to live forever . In coming back , however , let me say , 96 NARRATIVE .
... been shot . One saw the Virgin soon - peccavi cried— Had his soul white - wash'd all so clever ; Then home again he nimbly hied , Made fit , with saints above , to live forever . In coming back , however , let me say , 96 NARRATIVE .
第 97 頁
... saints devoutly bawling , While not a rascal comes to ease my woes ? " How is't that you can like a greyhound go , Merry , as if that naught had happen'd , burn ye ? ” " Why , ” cried the other , grinning , " you must know , That just ...
... saints devoutly bawling , While not a rascal comes to ease my woes ? " How is't that you can like a greyhound go , Merry , as if that naught had happen'd , burn ye ? ” " Why , ” cried the other , grinning , " you must know , That just ...
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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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第 248 頁 - 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...
第 98 頁 - 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.
第 242 頁 - 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...
第 40 頁 - 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.
第 319 頁 - 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,...
第 627 頁 - 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...
第 316 頁 - 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...
第 32 頁 - For thy sake, Tobacco, I Would do anything but die, And but seek to extend my days Long enough to sing thy praise.
第 243 頁 - 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!
第 53 頁 - 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.