The Humorous Poetry of the English Language: From Chaucer to Saxe ... with Notes, Explanatory and BiographicalMason brothers, 1856 - 689 sider |
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Side iv
... Fair have given occasion to libraries of comic verse ; yet , with diligent search , no humorous poems by women have been found which are of merit sufficient to give them claim to a place in a collec- tion like this . That lively wit and ...
... Fair have given occasion to libraries of comic verse ; yet , with diligent search , no humorous poems by women have been found which are of merit sufficient to give them claim to a place in a collec- tion like this . That lively wit and ...
Side vii
... Fair Lady . The Eggs • The Ass and his Master • The Love of the World Reproved , or Hypoc- risy Detected Report of an Adjudged Case Holy Willie's Prayer Epitaph on Holy Willie Address to the Deil . The Devil's Walk on Earth Church and ...
... Fair Lady . The Eggs • The Ass and his Master • The Love of the World Reproved , or Hypoc- risy Detected Report of an Adjudged Case Holy Willie's Prayer Epitaph on Holy Willie Address to the Deil . The Devil's Walk on Earth Church and ...
Side 24
... fair . But here's the mischief - man's an ass , I say ; Too fond of thunder , lightning , storm , and rain ; He hides the charming , cheerful ray That spreads a smile o'er hill and plain ! Dark , he must court the skull , and spade ...
... fair . But here's the mischief - man's an ass , I say ; Too fond of thunder , lightning , storm , and rain ; He hides the charming , cheerful ray That spreads a smile o'er hill and plain ! Dark , he must court the skull , and spade ...
Side 31
... To paint forth their fairest fair , Or in part but to express That exceeding comeliness Which their fancies doth so strike , They borrow language of dislike ; And , instead of Dearest Miss , Jewel , Honey MISCELLANEOUS . 31.
... To paint forth their fairest fair , Or in part but to express That exceeding comeliness Which their fancies doth so strike , They borrow language of dislike ; And , instead of Dearest Miss , Jewel , Honey MISCELLANEOUS . 31.
Side 33
... Fair Venus ! how I pity both ! For me , degenerate , modern wretch , Though in the genial month of May , My dripping limbs I faintly stretch , And think I've done a feat to - day . But since he crossed the rapid tide , According to the ...
... Fair Venus ! how I pity both ! For me , degenerate , modern wretch , Though in the genial month of May , My dripping limbs I faintly stretch , And think I've done a feat to - day . But since he crossed the rapid tide , According to the ...
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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.