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... Brings mirth to the Age of Gold . Dwellers in huts and in marble halls- From Shepherdess up to Queen- Cared little for bonnets , and less for shawls , And nothing for crinoline . But now Simplicity ' s not the rage , And it's funny to ...
... Brings mirth to the Age of Gold . Dwellers in huts and in marble halls- From Shepherdess up to Queen- Cared little for bonnets , and less for shawls , And nothing for crinoline . But now Simplicity ' s not the rage , And it's funny to ...
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... bring book and bell ! Ban yonder ghastly thing , I say ; And , look ye , ban it well . By cock and pye , the Humpty's face ! " - The form turn'd quickly round ; Then totter'd from its resting - place- * * * That night the corse was ...
... bring book and bell ! Ban yonder ghastly thing , I say ; And , look ye , ban it well . By cock and pye , the Humpty's face ! " - The form turn'd quickly round ; Then totter'd from its resting - place- * * * That night the corse was ...
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... bring me my buckler and sword ! Saddle my steed ! Ere he next have a feed , I ' fackens , the brute will be weary indeed ; For I and my gray must be off and away To Banbury - Cross at the dawn of the day . " People came down unto ...
... bring me my buckler and sword ! Saddle my steed ! Ere he next have a feed , I ' fackens , the brute will be weary indeed ; For I and my gray must be off and away To Banbury - Cross at the dawn of the day . " People came down unto ...
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... bring me what I ask ? Répondez , s'il vous plait . Be sure to recollect your purse , For be it understood Though money - matters might be worse They ' re very far from good . So , if you have a little gold You care to give away— But am ...
... bring me what I ask ? Répondez , s'il vous plait . Be sure to recollect your purse , For be it understood Though money - matters might be worse They ' re very far from good . So , if you have a little gold You care to give away— But am ...
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... bring me folks that I can like And folks that I can love . A warmer heart — a quicker brain— I'll ask for , if I may : Tomorrow , shall I ask in vain ? Répondez , s'il vous plait . A COCKNEY'S EVENING SONG . ADES into twilight the last ...
... bring me folks that I can like And folks that I can love . A warmer heart — a quicker brain— I'll ask for , if I may : Tomorrow , shall I ask in vain ? Répondez , s'il vous plait . A COCKNEY'S EVENING SONG . ADES into twilight the last ...
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Age of Gold ALDERMAN ALFRED CONCANEN Amongst the seasons anecdote BAB BALLADS BACCHUS ballads Barnsbury Bow Bells brain breeze bring caballitos chandelle DAVID GARRICK dear delight dress drink drop Edition ev'ry fancy fcap feel folks funny George Cruikshank gondolier hate hear you sing heard Hill Hints on Etiquette hookabadar hour illustrations IMPORTANT NEW BOOKS jeu ne vaut John Camden Hotten JOHN LEECH JOHN RUSKIN kind Lady Clara LARWOOD London look Lord melody morning morocco Nelly Moore never night Nightingale o'er once own-my upper pale Piccadilly plain play pleasure PLUTUS poet's lot pretty prosaic days recollect Répondez round s'il vous plait shabby-genteel sing sleep slumber smile sorrow Surrey side sweet Swinburne's talk tell thee THEODORE HOOK there's thine thing to-day to-night turn'd Twas upper G voice volume waggery weather wine young youth
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Page 9 - For one of us was born a twin, Yet not a soul knew which. One day, to make the matter worse, Before our names were fixed, As we were being washed by nurse, We got completely mixed; And thus, you see, by fate's decree, Or rather nurse's whim, My brother John got...
Page 48 - I wondered hugely what she meant, And said, "I'm bad at riddles; But I know where little girls are sent For telling taradiddles. "Now, if you don't reform," said I, " You'll never go to heaven." But all in vain; each time I try, That little idiot makes reply, "I ain't had more nor seven!" POSTSCRIPT: To borrow Wordsworth's name was wrong, Or slightly misapplied; And so I'd better call my song "Lines after Ache-inside.
Page 27 - Folks were happy as days were long In the old Arcadian times ; When life seemed only a dance and song In the sweetest of all sweet climes. Our world grows bigger, and, stage by stage, As the pitiless years have rolled, We've quite forgotten the Golden Age, And come to the Age of Gold. Time went by in a sheepish way Upon Thessaly's plains of yore. In the nineteenth century lambs at play Mean mutton, and nothing more. Our swains at present are far too sage To live as one lived of old : So they couple...
Page 47 - I thought it would have sent me mad Last night about eleven." Said I, " What is it makes you bad? How many apples have you had?" She answered, "Only seven!" "And are you sure you took no more, My little maid?" quoth I; "Oh, please, sir, mother gave me four, But they were in a pie!" "If that's the case," I stammered out, "Of course you've had eleven.
Page 103 - NAY, start not from the banquet where the red wine foams .. , for thee — Though somewhat thick to perforate this epidermis be ; 'Tis madness, when the bowl invites, to linger at the brink : So haste thee, haste thee, timid one. Drink, pretty creature, drink ! I tell thee, if these azure veins could boast the regal wine Of Tudors or Plantagenets, the draught should still be thine ! Though round the goblet's beaded brim plebeian bubbles wink, 'Twill cheer and not inebriate. Drink, pretty creature,...