The Humorous Poetry of the English Language: From Chaucer to Saxe ... with Notes, Explanatory and BiographicalMason brothers, 1856 - 689 sider |
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... Young Jessie . AUTHOR . PAGE Chaucer 21 Peter Pindar 21 " L 22 แ 24 Burns 25 Southey 26 ( 6 28 Lamb 29 Byron 33 • ( L Moore 34 36 37 38 39 40 41 • • 44 45 • Rings and Seals Nets and Cages Salad My Letters The Poplar Spring • Ode on a ...
... Young Jessie . AUTHOR . PAGE Chaucer 21 Peter Pindar 21 " L 22 แ 24 Burns 25 Southey 26 ( 6 28 Lamb 29 Byron 33 • ( L Moore 34 36 37 38 39 40 41 • • 44 45 • Rings and Seals Nets and Cages Salad My Letters The Poplar Spring • Ode on a ...
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... ? 561 From the French . 562 A Joke Versified . The Surprise On • On a Squinting Poetess Ou a Tuft - hunter . The Kiss Epitaph on Southey . 56 ° • 562 * • 562 562 563 563 • . 564 SUBJECT . Written in a Young Lady's Common - place xiv INDEX .
... ? 561 From the French . 562 A Joke Versified . The Surprise On • On a Squinting Poetess Ou a Tuft - hunter . The Kiss Epitaph on Southey . 56 ° • 562 * • 562 562 563 563 • . 564 SUBJECT . Written in a Young Lady's Common - place xiv INDEX .
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... Young Lady's Common - place Book . The Rabbinical Origin of Women Anacreontique On Butler's Monument On the Disappointment of the Whig Associates of the Prince Regent , etc .. To Professor Airey On Lord Dudley and Ward Epigrams of To ...
... Young Lady's Common - place Book . The Rabbinical Origin of Women Anacreontique On Butler's Monument On the Disappointment of the Whig Associates of the Prince Regent , etc .. To Professor Airey On Lord Dudley and Ward Epigrams of To ...
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... Young Widow . The Railway of Life A Conjugal Conundrum Numbers Altered • • Grammar for the Court of Berlin The Empty Bottle . The Death of Doctor Morrison , Epigrams by · On a Recent Classic Controversy Another . On an ill - read Lawyer ...
... Young Widow . The Railway of Life A Conjugal Conundrum Numbers Altered • • Grammar for the Court of Berlin The Empty Bottle . The Death of Doctor Morrison , Epigrams by · On a Recent Classic Controversy Another . On an ill - read Lawyer ...
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... young posterity of Pork ! Their enemy is at hand . Again . Thou say'st The pig is ugly . Jacob , look at him ! Those eyes have taught the lover flattery . His face , . . nay , Jacob ! Jacob ! were it fair To judge a lady in her ...
... young posterity of Pork ! Their enemy is at hand . Again . Thou say'st The pig is ugly . Jacob , look at him ! Those eyes have taught the lover flattery . His face , . . nay , Jacob ! Jacob ! were it fair To judge a lady in her ...
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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,...
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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.