The world's wit and humor: an encyclopedia of the classic wit and humor of all ages and nations, 第 13 卷Lionel Strachey Review of reviews Company, 1906 |
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第219页 - And cropp'd his food and was content, Until he spied by accident A flute, which some oblivious gent Had left behind by accident ; When, sniffing it with eager scent, He breathed on it by accident, And made the hollow instrument Emit a sound by accident. "Hurrah! hurrah!
第208页 - ... From the drossy chaff away. This I've been about — And now, Juanito, what hast thou ? Juan. Alas, sir, I can't answer in so good rhyme or reason. I have been playing at fives, and lost every bout. Cres. What signifies if you paid ? Juan. But I could not, and have come to you for the money. Cres. Before I give it you, listen to me. There are things two Thou never must do; Swear to more than thou knowest, Play for more than thou owest; And never mind cost, So credit's not lost.
第158页 - AS they were thus discoursing, they perceived some thirty or forty windmills that are in that plain; and as soon as Don Quixote espied them, he said to his squire: Fortune disposes our affairs better than we ourselves could have desired: look yonder, friend Sancho Panza, where...
第6页 - Think ! If, ere the next hour struck, Each of our lovers should come here to-day, Think you that we should fly or feel afraid ? " To whom the others answered, " From such luck A girl would be a fool to run away.
第159页 - ... they were certainly windmills, and not giants. But he was so fully possessed that they were giants, that he neither heard the outcries of his squire Sancho, nor yet discerned what they were, though he was very near them, but went on crying out aloud : " Fly not, ye cowards and vile caitiffs; for it is a single knight who assaults you.
第6页 - BY a clear well, within a little field Full of green grass and flowers of every hue, Sat three young girls, relating (as I knew) Their loves. And each had twined a bough to shield Her lovely face ; and the green leaves did yield The golden hair their shadow; while the two Sweet colors mingled, both blown lightly through With a soft wind for ever stirred and still'd.
第209页 - ... of the troop that has just marcht ; into Zalamea, and quartered upon him. Cres. Say no more ; my house and all I have is ever at the service of the king, and of all who have authority under him. If you will leave his things here, I will see his room is got ready directly ; and do you tell his Honour that, come when he will, he shall find me and mine at his service. Serg. Good — he will be here directly. [Exit. Juan. I wonder, father, that, rich as you are, you still submit yourself to these...
第204页 - Could you have help'd it ? Men. Easily. Nun. How, sir? Men. You must know that every one that is born is the essence of the food his parents eat. Nun. Oh ! Your parents did eat then, sir ? You have not inherited that of them, at all events. Men. Which forthwith converts itself into proper flesh and blood — ergo, if my father had been an eater of onions, for instance, he would have begotten me with a strong breath ; on which I should have said to him, ' Hold, I must come of no such nastiness as...
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第203页 - How's the gray horse ? Nun. You may as well call him the Dun ; so screw'd he can't move a leg. Men. Did you have him walk'd gently about ? Nun. Walk'd about ! when it's corn he wants, poor devil ! Men. And the dogs ? Nun. Ah, now, they might do if you'd give them the horse to eat. Men. Enough, enough — it has struck three. My gloves and tooth-pick. Nun. That sinecure tooth-pick ! Men. I tell you I would brain anybody who insinuated to me I had not dined — and on game too. But tell me, Nufto,...