The Humorous Poetry of the English Language: From Chaucer to Saxe ... with Notes, Explanatory and BiographicalMason brothers, 1856 - 689 sider |
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... appear With other sowings ! For me , I find , when eastern winds are high , A frigid , not a genial inspiration ; Nor can , like Iron - Chested Chubb , defy An inflamination . Smitten by breezes from the land of plague , To ...
... appear With other sowings ! For me , I find , when eastern winds are high , A frigid , not a genial inspiration ; Nor can , like Iron - Chested Chubb , defy An inflamination . Smitten by breezes from the land of plague , To ...
Side 51
... appear to - day , Just Eton boys , grown heavy ; That I could bask in childhood's sun , And dance o'er childhood's roses ; And find huge wealth in one pound one , Vast wit and broken noses ; And pray Sir Giles at Datchet Lane , And call ...
... appear to - day , Just Eton boys , grown heavy ; That I could bask in childhood's sun , And dance o'er childhood's roses ; And find huge wealth in one pound one , Vast wit and broken noses ; And pray Sir Giles at Datchet Lane , And call ...
Side 86
... appears most wise , And rolls at church her 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 ...
... appears most wise , And rolls at church her 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 ...
Side 87
... appear , Belov'd by all who Truth revere . 87 FLATTERY . A FABLE . SIR CHARLES HANBURY WILLIAMS . FANNY , beware of flattery , Your sex's much - lov'd enemy ; For other foes we are prepar'd , And Nature puts us on our guard : In that ...
... appear , Belov'd by all who Truth revere . 87 FLATTERY . A FABLE . SIR CHARLES HANBURY WILLIAMS . FANNY , beware of flattery , Your sex's much - lov'd enemy ; For other foes we are prepar'd , And Nature puts us on our guard : In that ...
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... appear , And some the front assail , and some the rear ; Their remedies to reinforce and vary , Came surgeon eke , and eke apothecary ; Till the tired Monarch , though of words grown chary , Yet dropt , to recompense their fruitless ...
... appear , And some the front assail , and some the rear ; Their remedies to reinforce and vary , Came surgeon eke , and eke apothecary ; Till the tired Monarch , though of words grown chary , Yet dropt , to recompense their fruitless ...
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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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Side 248 - 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...
Side 98 - 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.
Side 242 - 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...
Side 40 - 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.
Side 319 - 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,...
Side 627 - 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...
Side 316 - 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...
Side 32 - For thy sake, Tobacco, I Would do anything but die, And but seek to extend my days Long enough to sing thy praise.
Side 243 - 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!
Side 53 - 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.