The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature of All Times and Nations, Volume 3Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley Gebbie Publishing Company, Limited, 1884 - Wit and humor |
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... lives . - Hollo , there ! who is within there ? [ Bacchus kicks outrageously at the door . HERCULES . BACCHUS . XANTHIAS . H. Who's there ? ( He has bang'd the door , whoever he is , With the kick of a centaur . ) matter , there ? B ...
... lives . - Hollo , there ! who is within there ? [ Bacchus kicks outrageously at the door . HERCULES . BACCHUS . XANTHIAS . H. Who's there ? ( He has bang'd the door , whoever he is , With the kick of a centaur . ) matter , there ? B ...
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... lives a holy vow- Such rewards await them now . Scene . The Gate of Pluto's Palace . Enter BACCHUS and XANTHIAS . B. ( going up to the door with considerable hesitation ) . Well , how must I knock at the door now ? Can't ye tell me ...
... lives a holy vow- Such rewards await them now . Scene . The Gate of Pluto's Palace . Enter BACCHUS and XANTHIAS . B. ( going up to the door with considerable hesitation ) . Well , how must I knock at the door now ? Can't ye tell me ...
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... live suspected and subjected to loss of franchise and disgrace , Feeling it a grievous scandal when a single naval fight Renders foreigners and slaves partakers of the city's right : -Not that we condemn the measure ; we conceived it ...
... live suspected and subjected to loss of franchise and disgrace , Feeling it a grievous scandal when a single naval fight Renders foreigners and slaves partakers of the city's right : -Not that we condemn the measure ; we conceived it ...
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... live on earth speak in more elevated style ) . B. Dear , worthy Eschylus , contain your - Ye , that on earth or in air are forever kindly self , Which nobody could understand . B. Well , I confess. Contending for the important choice , A ...
... live on earth speak in more elevated style ) . B. Dear , worthy Eschylus , contain your - Ye , that on earth or in air are forever kindly self , Which nobody could understand . B. Well , I confess. Contending for the important choice , A ...
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... live . " She got his clothes off , soaked his feet in mustard water , and he slept . The hat was lying on the centre - table , and the children would come in and get a smell of it and look at each other with reproachful glances , and go ...
... live . " She got his clothes off , soaked his feet in mustard water , and he slept . The hat was lying on the centre - table , and the children would come in and get a smell of it and look at each other with reproachful glances , and go ...
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Page 361 - I cannot eat but little meat, My stomach is not good ; But sure I think, that I can drink With him that wears a hood : Though I go bare, take ye no care ; I nothing am a-cold : I stuff my skin so full within Of jolly good ale and old.
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Page 32 - The night drave on wi' sangs and clatter; And ay the ale was growing better: The landlady and Tam grew gracious, Wi' favours, secret, sweet, and precious: The souter tauld his queerest stories; The landlord's laugh was ready chorus: The storm without might rair and rustle, Tam did na mind the storm a whistle. Care, mad to see a man sae happy, E'en drown'd himsel amang the nappy: As bees flee hame wi' lades o' treasure, The minutes wing'd their way wi' pleasure; Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious,...
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Page 280 - Why is Mrs. Bardell so earnestly entreated not to agitate herself about this warming-pan, unless (as is no doubt the case) it is a mere cover for hidden fire — a mere substitute for some endearing word or promise, agreeably to a preconcerted system of correspondence, artfully contrived by Pickwick with a view to his contemplated desertion, and which I am not in a condition to explain?