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 57
... sides , the chin , the chops , And burst the buttons off the coat , Like stout and porter - fattening . slops ! " CHILDREN MUST BE PAID FOR . " SWEET is the sound of infant voice ; Young innocence is full of charms : There's not a ...
... sides , the chin , the chops , And burst the buttons off the coat , Like stout and porter - fattening . slops ! " CHILDREN MUST BE PAID FOR . " SWEET is the sound of infant voice ; Young innocence is full of charms : There's not a ...
Side 65
... side of a footstep free ! But give me a sly flirtation By the light of a chandelier- With music to play in the pauses , And nobody very near : Or a seat on a silken sofa , With a glass of pure old wine , And mamma too blind to discover ...
... side of a footstep free ! But give me a sly flirtation By the light of a chandelier- With music to play in the pauses , And nobody very near : Or a seat on a silken sofa , With a glass of pure old wine , And mamma too blind to discover ...
Side 70
... side To take her finger's measure , While Maryanne pretends to chide , And blushes deep with pleasure . Who'll watch her sew her wedding - gown , Well conscious that it is hers , Who ' ll glean a tress , without a frown , With those so ...
... side To take her finger's measure , While Maryanne pretends to chide , And blushes deep with pleasure . Who'll watch her sew her wedding - gown , Well conscious that it is hers , Who ' ll glean a tress , without a frown , With those so ...
Side 84
... side was moated : The lady heard his furious vows , And all his vengeance noted . Thought shee , sir knight , to quench your rage Once more I will endeavour : This water shall your fury ' swage , Or else it shall burn for ever . Then ...
... side was moated : The lady heard his furious vows , And all his vengeance noted . Thought shee , sir knight , to quench your rage Once more I will endeavour : This water shall your fury ' swage , Or else it shall burn for ever . Then ...
Side 97
... side , Where China's gayest art had dyed The azure flowers that blow , Demurest of the tabby kind , The pensive Selimă , reclined , Gazed on the lake below . THOMAS GRAY . Her conscious tail her joy declared ; The fair round 5 NARRATIVE ...
... side , Where China's gayest art had dyed The azure flowers that blow , Demurest of the tabby kind , The pensive Selimă , reclined , Gazed on the lake below . THOMAS GRAY . Her conscious tail her joy declared ; The fair round 5 NARRATIVE ...
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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.