The Humorous Poetry of the English Language: From Chaucer to Saxe ... with Notes, Explanatory and Biographical |
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... Muse's kite ! Our hearts are dough , our heels are lead , Our topmost joys fall dull and dead , Like balls with no rebound ! And often with a faded eye We look behind , and send a sigh Toward that merry ground ! Then be contented . Thou ...
... Muse's kite ! Our hearts are dough , our heels are lead , Our topmost joys fall dull and dead , Like balls with no rebound ! And often with a faded eye We look behind , and send a sigh Toward that merry ground ! Then be contented . Thou ...
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... muse to matters which any every - day man and young woman may see in taking the same promenade for the same innocent refreshment . COME out , love - the night is enchanting ! The moon hangs just over Broadway ; The stars are all lighted ...
... muse to matters which any every - day man and young woman may see in taking the same promenade for the same innocent refreshment . COME out , love - the night is enchanting ! The moon hangs just over Broadway ; The stars are all lighted ...
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... Muse's eye , That lighten'd on Bandello's laughing tale , And twinkled with a luster shrewd and sly , When Giam Batttista bade her vision hail ! -- Yet fear not , ladies , the naïve detail Given by the natives of that land canorous ...
... Muse's eye , That lighten'd on Bandello's laughing tale , And twinkled with a luster shrewd and sly , When Giam Batttista bade her vision hail ! -- Yet fear not , ladies , the naïve detail Given by the natives of that land canorous ...
Page 133
... Muses hate brawls ; suffice it then to say , He duck'd below the clothes - and there he lay : ' Twas now the very witching time of night , When church - yards groan , and graves give up their dead , And many a mischievous , enfranchised ...
... Muses hate brawls ; suffice it then to say , He duck'd below the clothes - and there he lay : ' Twas now the very witching time of night , When church - yards groan , and graves give up their dead , And many a mischievous , enfranchised ...
Page 150
... muse , If I could but get hold Of some of that gold , I might manage to pay off my rascally Jews ! " When dinner was done , at a sign to the lasses , The table was clear'd , and they put on fresh glasses ; Then the lady addrest Her ...
... muse , If I could but get hold Of some of that gold , I might manage to pay off my rascally Jews ! " When dinner was done , at a sign to the lasses , The table was clear'd , and they put on fresh glasses ; Then the lady addrest 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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Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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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Page 32 - For thy sake, Tobacco, I Would do anything but die, And but seek to extend my days Long enough to sing thy praise.
Page 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!
Page 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.