The world's wit and humor: an encyclopedia of the classic wit and humor of all ages and nations, 第 7 卷Lionel Strachey Review of reviews Company, 1905 |
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... less we are willing to own it . For my own part , I have always observed the persons who maintain the worst side in any contest are the warmest . " " Why , " says she , " I must confess there is truth in what you say , and I will en ...
... less we are willing to own it . For my own part , I have always observed the persons who maintain the worst side in any contest are the warmest . " " Why , " says she , " I must confess there is truth in what you say , and I will en ...
第13页
... less manifest intention of the " Odyssey . " For the improvement of this their situation was most excel- lently adapted ; and accordingly we find Thucydides , in the beginning of his history , considers the Greeks as a set of pi- rates ...
... less manifest intention of the " Odyssey . " For the improvement of this their situation was most excel- lently adapted ; and accordingly we find Thucydides , in the beginning of his history , considers the Greeks as a set of pi- rates ...
第25页
... less distinguished by superiority of wit than fortune , when a very dark passage was read out of a poet famous for being so sublime that he is often out of the sight of his reader , some persons present declared that they did not ...
... less distinguished by superiority of wit than fortune , when a very dark passage was read out of a poet famous for being so sublime that he is often out of the sight of his reader , some persons present declared that they did not ...
第27页
... less than Nothing ; when the person who receives it is not only void of the quality for which he is respected , but is in reality notoriously guilty of the vices directly opposite to the virtues whose applause he receives . This is ...
... less than Nothing ; when the person who receives it is not only void of the quality for which he is respected , but is in reality notoriously guilty of the vices directly opposite to the virtues whose applause he receives . This is ...
第36页
... less a prig in one hat than in another ? If the public should be weak enough to interest themselves in your quarrels , and to prefer one pack to the other , while both are aiming at their purses , it is your busi- ness to laugh at , not ...
... less a prig in one hat than in another ? If the public should be weak enough to interest themselves in your quarrels , and to prefer one pack to the other , while both are aiming at their purses , it is your busi- ness to laugh at , not ...
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第155页 - JOHN GILPIN was a citizen Of credit and renown, A trainband captain eke was he Of famous London town. John Gilpin's spouse said to her dear, Though wedded we have been These twice ten tedious years, yet we No holiday have seen. To-morrow is our wedding day, And we will then repair Unto the Bell at Edmonton All in a chaise and pair. My sister, and my sister's child, Myself, and children three, Will fill the chaise ; so you must ride On horseback after we.
第288页 - To hear the lark begin his flight And singing startle the dull night From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise; Then to come, in spite of sorrow, And at my window bid good-morrow Through the sweetbriar, or the vine, Or the twisted eglantine: While the cock with lively din Scatters the rear of darkness thin, And to the stack, or the barn-door, Stoutly struts his dames before: Oft listening how the hounds and horn Cheerly rouse the slumbering morn, From the side of some hoar...
第164页 - The youth did ride, and soon did meet John coming back amain, Whom in a trice he tried to stop By catching at his rein. But not performing what he meant, And gladly would have done, The frighted steed he frighted more And made him faster run. Away went Gilpin, and away Went post-boy at his heels, The post-boy's horse right glad to miss The lumbering of the wheels.
第289页 - When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn, That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength ; And, crop-full, out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.
第131页 - Good people all, of every sort, Give ear unto my song ; And if you find it wondrous short, It cannot hold you long. In Islington there was a man, Of whom the world might say, That still a godly race he ran, Whene'er he went to pray.
第201页 - tis out of pure good humor, and I take it for granted they deal exactly in the same manner with me. But, Sir Peter, you know you promised to come to Lady Sneerwell's too. SIR PET. Well, well, I'll call in, just to look after my own character.
第23页 - cries Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer, "why I could act as well as he myself. I am sure, if I had seen a ghost, I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
第244页 - Shanter, As he frae Ayr ae night did canter; (Auld Ayr, wham ne'er a town surpasses, For honest men and...
第248页 - Nick, in shape o' beast; A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge: He screw'd the pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a...
第37页 - TWAS on a lofty vase's side, Where China's gayest art had dyed The azure flowers, that blow ; Demurest of the tabby kind, The pensive Selima, reclined, Gazed on the lake below. Her conscious tail her joy declared ; 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 purr'd applause.