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Fields, Osgood, & Company, 1864 - 308 頁
 

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第 213 頁 - AGAIN I hear that creaking step! — He's rapping at the door! — Too well I know the boding sound That ushers in a bore. I do not tremble when I meet The stoutest of my foes, But Heaven defend me from the friend Who comes — but never goes!
第 26 頁 - Depend upon it, my snobbish friend, Your family thread you can't ascend, Without good reason to apprehend You may find it waxed, at the farther end. By some plebeian vocation \\ Or, worse than that, your boasted line May end in a loop of stronger twine, That plagued some worthy relation ! But Miss MacBride had something beside Her lofty birth to nourish her pride — For rich was the old paternal MacBride, According to public rumor : And he lived " up town,
第 308 頁 - Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.
第 38 頁 - In the eye of fame, Here are very quickly Coming to the same ; High and lowly people, Birds of every feather, On a common level, Travelling together.
第 212 頁 - And tells me of the pains He suffers from a score of ills Of which he ne'er complains; And how he struggled once with death To keep the fiend at bay; On themes like those away he goes, But never goes away!
第 36 頁 - I'm wanting in law, Or lack an intelligent face, That others have cases to plead, While I have to plead for a case. ' 0, how can a modest young man E'er hope for the smallest progression, — The profession's already so full Of lawyers so full of profession!
第 36 頁 - And in less than a jiffy was in it! Next morning twelve citizens came ('Twas the coroner bade them attend), To the end that it might be determined How the man had determined his end! "The man was a lawyer, I hear," Quoth the foreman who sat on the corse.
第 132 頁 - Twas just the thing to astonish the crowd, — He'd have the horses and wouldn't be cowed ! In vain the boy was cautioned at large, He called for the chargers, unheeding the charge, And vowed that any young fellow of force, Could manage a dozen coursers, of course ! Now...
第 72 頁 - The moral of this mournful tale, To all is plain and clear, — That drinking habits bring a man Too often to his bier ; And he who scorns to 'take the pledge...
第 195 頁 - ... after year, early and late, Alike in summer and winter weather, He pecked the stones and calked the gate, And mill and miller grew old together.

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