The Humorous Poetry of the English Language: From Chaucer to Saxe ... with Notes, Explanatory and Biographical |
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... happy satirical verse . The reader will not be annoyed by an impertinent superfluity of notes . At the end of the volume may be found a list of the sources from which its contents have been taken . For the conve- nience of those who ...
... happy satirical verse . The reader will not be annoyed by an impertinent superfluity of notes . At the end of the volume may be found a list of the sources from which its contents have been taken . For the conve- nience of those who ...
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... Happy Address to the Toothache . The Pig Snuff® Farewell to Tobacco Written after swimming from Sestos to Aby- dos The Lisbon Packet . To Fanny Young Jessie . AUTHOR . PAGE Chaucer 21 Peter Pindar 21 " L 22 แ 24 Burns 25 Southey 26 ( 6 ...
... Happy Address to the Toothache . The Pig Snuff® Farewell to Tobacco Written after swimming from Sestos to Aby- dos The Lisbon Packet . To Fanny Young Jessie . AUTHOR . PAGE Chaucer 21 Peter Pindar 21 " L 22 แ 24 Burns 25 Southey 26 ( 6 ...
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... Happy to find thyself alive , no doubt --- Now turnest - on the table making rings , Now crawling , forming a wet track , Now shaking the rich liquor from thy back , Now fluttering nectar from thy silken wings . Now standing on thy head ...
... Happy to find thyself alive , no doubt --- Now turnest - on the table making rings , Now crawling , forming a wet track , Now shaking the rich liquor from thy back , Now fluttering nectar from thy silken wings . Now standing on thy head ...
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... HAPPY . " MAN may be happy , if he will : " PETER PINDAR . I've said it often , and I think so still ; Doctrine to make the million stare ! Know then , each mortal is an actual Jove ; Can brew what weather he shall most approve , Or ...
... HAPPY . " MAN may be happy , if he will : " PETER PINDAR . I've said it often , and I think so still ; Doctrine to make the million stare ! Know then , each mortal is an actual Jove ; Can brew what weather he shall most approve , Or ...
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... happy than his son ? That manhood's mirth ? -O , go thy ways To Drury - lane when plays , And see how forced our fun ! Thy taws are brave ! -thy tops are rare ! - Our tops are spun with coils of care , Our dumps are no delight ! — The ...
... happy than his son ? That manhood's mirth ? -O , go thy ways To Drury - lane when plays , And see how forced our fun ! Thy taws are brave ! -thy tops are rare ! - Our tops are spun with coils of care , Our dumps are no delight ! — 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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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 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...
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.