A Treasury of Humorous Poetry: Being a Compilation of Witty, Facetious, and Satirical Verse Selected from the Writings of British and American PoetsFrederic Lawrence Knowles |
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... Published , October , 1902 Sixth Impression , December , 1917 Seventh Impression , May , 1918 Eighth Impression , January , 1919 Ninth Impression , April , 1919 THE COLONIAL PRESS C. H. SIMONDS CO . , BOSTON , U. S. A. JUN 18 1921 KP ...
... Published , October , 1902 Sixth Impression , December , 1917 Seventh Impression , May , 1918 Eighth Impression , January , 1919 Ninth Impression , April , 1919 THE COLONIAL PRESS C. H. SIMONDS CO . , BOSTON , U. S. A. JUN 18 1921 KP ...
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... published fifty years ago , nearly two hundred epigrams are included . The reader of to - day cannot but wonder that many of the supposedly witty couplets and quatrains by Prior , Pope , Swift , Waller , Sheridan , Hook , and others ...
... published fifty years ago , nearly two hundred epigrams are included . The reader of to - day cannot but wonder that many of the supposedly witty couplets and quatrains by Prior , Pope , Swift , Waller , Sheridan , Hook , and others ...
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... published by the London house of Walter Scott . 66 66 66 Thanks are due owners of copyright for the use of numerous selections . Poems by the following writers are included by permission of and by special arrangement with Houghton ...
... published by the London house of Walter Scott . 66 66 66 Thanks are due owners of copyright for the use of numerous selections . Poems by the following writers are included by permission of and by special arrangement with Houghton ...
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... , - And starting out to prowl , sir , - From " A Little Book of Western Verse . " Copyright , 1889 , by Eugene Field , and published by Charles Scribner's Sons . You bet he made Rome howl , sir , Until A TREASURY OF HUMOROUS POETRY 85.
... , - And starting out to prowl , sir , - From " A Little Book of Western Verse . " Copyright , 1889 , by Eugene Field , and published by Charles Scribner's Sons . You bet he made Rome howl , sir , Until A TREASURY OF HUMOROUS POETRY 85.
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... on the view Of Johnny Jones and his sister Sue- Them two . 1 From " A Little Book of Western Verse , " published by Charles Scribner's Sons . Up at that peach a club they threw Down from A TREASURY OF HUMOROUS POETRY 93.
... on the view Of Johnny Jones and his sister Sue- Them two . 1 From " A Little Book of Western Verse , " published by Charles Scribner's Sons . Up at that peach a club they threw Down from A TREASURY OF HUMOROUS POETRY 93.
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