The world's wit and humor: an encyclopedia of the classic wit and humor of all ages and nations, 第 2 卷Lionel Strachey Review of reviews Company, 1905 |
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... matter . It is true that , in these practical romances , Bolus was charged with a defective taste in repeating himself . The justice of the charge must be , at least , partially acknowledged : this I know from a client to whom Ovid sold ...
... matter . It is true that , in these practical romances , Bolus was charged with a defective taste in repeating himself . The justice of the charge must be , at least , partially acknowledged : this I know from a client to whom Ovid sold ...
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... matters , they get sharp enough , after a while , to whatever concerns their bread and butter . Bolus not having confined his art to political matters , sounded , at last , the depths , and explored the limits of popular credulity . The ...
... matters , they get sharp enough , after a while , to whatever concerns their bread and butter . Bolus not having confined his art to political matters , sounded , at last , the depths , and explored the limits of popular credulity . The ...
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... matter no further ; for we were convinced that the government did not expect its officers to run the risk of what Master Thomas Jefferson Naron had got , merely to add another dozen yards of cloth , or score of chickens , to the ...
... matter no further ; for we were convinced that the government did not expect its officers to run the risk of what Master Thomas Jefferson Naron had got , merely to add another dozen yards of cloth , or score of chickens , to the ...
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... matter how his craft would rock , He slept for skippers ' naps are sound ! The watch on deck would now and then Run down and wake him , with the lead ; He'd up , and taste , and tell the men How many miles they went ahead . One night ...
... matter how his craft would rock , He slept for skippers ' naps are sound ! The watch on deck would now and then Run down and wake him , with the lead ; He'd up , and taste , and tell the men How many miles they went ahead . One night ...
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... Matter - o ' - money ! " II Whom should I marry ? should it be A dashing damsel , gay and pert , A pattern of inconsistency ; Or selfish , mercenary flirt ? Quoth Echo , sharply : " Nary flirt ! " III What if , a - weary of the strife ...
... Matter - o ' - money ! " II Whom should I marry ? should it be A dashing damsel , gay and pert , A pattern of inconsistency ; Or selfish , mercenary flirt ? Quoth Echo , sharply : " Nary flirt ! " III What if , a - weary of the strife ...
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agin ain't aint Andy aristokrat arter asked Aunt Hetty Aurelia bear bless Bolus Bolus's Breitmann bumblebee Calaveras County cassimere CHARLES GODFREY LELAND Croesus dear Dennis dinner door dress enny eyes fancy feller folks frog fust garden gentleman gote hand head hear heard Hetson horse hoss Ingham jist JOHN GODFREY SAXE ketch kind Kuncker lady laughed legs live look LOUISA MAY ALCOTT mind Miss Winny Naron never nose nothin Ovid Partington phool Polly poor Potiphar replied RICHARD GRANT WHITE side sing smile Sparrowgrass squire Sum marry talk tell Thare there's thet thet's thing Thomas Jefferson thought tite boots told took turned Uncle Kit's Union Creek wife yer Uncle young
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第54页 - The skipper yawned, put out his tongue, Then ope'd his eyes in wondrous haste, And then upon the floor he sprung! < The skipper stormed and tore his hair, Thrust on his boots, and roared to...
第285页 - Rev. Leonidas W. Smiley, I would feel under many obligations to him. Simon Wheeler backed me into a corner and blockaded me there with his chair, and then sat down and reeled off the monotonous narrative which follows this paragraph.
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第139页 - An' she looked full ez rosy agin Ez the apples she was peelin'. 'Twas kin' o' kingdom-come to look On sech a blessed cretur, A dogrose blushin' to a brook Ain't modester nor sweeter. He was six foot o' man, A 1, Clear grit an' human natur' ; None couldn't quicker pitch a ton Nor dror a furrer straighter.
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第126页 - He's ben true to one party, — an' thet is himself; So John P. Robinson he Sez he shall vote fer Gineral C. Gineral C. he goes in fer the war ; He don't vally principle more'n an old cud ; Wut did God make us raytional creeturs fer, But glory an' gunpowder, plunder an
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第66页 - 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!