Parodies of the Works of English & American Authors, Volume 5Reeves & Turner, 1888 - English wit and humor Includes parodies of Tennyson, Longfellow, Bret Harte, Thomas Hood, Swinburne, Browning, Shakespeare, Milton, Poe, Shelley, Cowper, Coleridge, Herrick, Carroll, Lever, Lover, Burns, Scott, Goldsmith, Kingsley, Byron and many others. |
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... thing , it must be admitted , promises fair to be a pretty good thing in itself ; but if the resemblance be very striking , it commonly has the additional advantage of letting us more completely into the secret of the original author ...
... thing , it must be admitted , promises fair to be a pretty good thing in itself ; but if the resemblance be very striking , it commonly has the additional advantage of letting us more completely into the secret of the original author ...
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... thing , " whose beginning he had seen long before , had at last got an end to it , " a merit , " he added , " that most This of my writings have wanted and are like to want . " " thing " was the " Elegy . " Walpole showed it about ...
... thing , " whose beginning he had seen long before , had at last got an end to it , " a merit , " he added , " that most This of my writings have wanted and are like to want . " " thing " was the " Elegy . " Walpole showed it about ...
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... thing some useful trade to learn , By far more suited to his shallow head , Some trade , by which he might have known to earn With honest industry , his daily bread , False pride forbade ; nor to himself alone , Confines his views , but ...
... thing some useful trade to learn , By far more suited to his shallow head , Some trade , by which he might have known to earn With honest industry , his daily bread , False pride forbade ; nor to himself alone , Confines his views , but ...
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... Things call'd Reform Bills lurk'd , ( a specious brood , ) Perhaps some Catiline might head their train , Some Cromwell yet unstain'd with legal blood . The votes of venal Senates to command , To break the Constitution's strongest ties ...
... Things call'd Reform Bills lurk'd , ( a specious brood , ) Perhaps some Catiline might head their train , Some Cromwell yet unstain'd with legal blood . The votes of venal Senates to command , To break the Constitution's strongest ties ...
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... things far , far , beyond his reach . " To prison sent , he swore they us'd him ill , The room was powerless , as ... thing some useful trade to learn , By far more suited to his shallow head , False pride forbade , nor suffer'd him to ...
... things far , far , beyond his reach . " To prison sent , he swore they us'd him ill , The room was powerless , as ... thing some useful trade to learn , By far more suited to his shallow head , False pride forbade , nor suffer'd him to ...
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Page 97 - SHE was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and way-lay.
Page 234 - Over earth and ocean, with gentle motion, This pilot is guiding me, Lured by the love of the genii that move In the depths of the purple sea ; Over the rills, and the crags, and the hills, Over the lakes and the plains, Wherever he dream, under mountain or stream, The Spirit he loves remains ; And I all the while bask in heaven's blue smile, Whilst he is dissolving in rains.
Page 107 - The sun came up upon the left, Out of the sea came he ! And he shone bright, and on the right Went down into the sea. Higher and higher every day, Till over the mast at noon " — The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast, For he heard the loud bassoon.
Page 254 - Now in building of chaises, I tell you what, There is always somewhere a weakest spot, — In hub, tire, felloe, in spring or thill, In panel, or crossbar, or floor, or sill, In screw, bolt, thoroughbrace, — lurking still, Find it somewhere you must and will, — Above or below, or within or without, — And that's the reason, beyond a doubt, A chaise breaks down, but doesn't wear out. But the Deacon swore (as Deacons do, With an "I dew vum...
Page 210 - Go, lovely Rose! Tell her, that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts, where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died.
Page 234 - I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun.
Page 51 - Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high, To bitter Scorn a sacrifice And grinning Infamy. The stings of Falsehood those shall try, And hard Unkindness...
Page 107 - With sloping masts and dipping prow, As who pursued with yell and blow Still treads the shadow of his foe, And forward bends his head, The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, And southward aye we fled.
Page 313 - Her buskins gemmed with morning dew, Blew an inspiring air, that dale and thicket rung, The hunter's call to Faun and Dryad known ! The oak-crowned Sisters and their chaste-eyed Queen Satyrs and Sylvan Boys were seen Peeping from forth their alleys green : Brown Exercise rejoiced to hear ; And Sport leaped up, and seized his beechen spear.
Page 124 - I played a soft and doleful air, I sang an old and moving story — An old rude song, that suited well That ruin wild and hoary. She listened with a flitting blush, With downcast eyes and modest grace; For well she knew I could not choose But gaze upon her face.