 | 1865 - 472 pages
...laughter heartyHe was wonderfully active for BO very stout a party. And I said, "O, gentle pieman, why BO very, very merry ? Is it purity of conscience, or...your one-and-seven sherry ; " But he answered, " I'm BO happy — no profession could be dearer — If I am not humming ' Tra ! la ! la ! ' I'm singing... | |
 | William Schwenck Gilbert - Ballads, English - 1878 - 270 pages
...he was chubby, he was smooth and he was rosy, And his little wife was pretty and particularly cosy. And he chirped and sang, and skipped about, and laughed...or your one-and-seven sherry ? " But he answered, " I "m so happy — no profession could be dearer — If I am not humming ' Tra ! la ! la ! ' I 'm... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - Wit and humor - 1884 - 460 pages
...both into a rage enormous. Mr. Close, expressed a wish that he could only get anigh to me; And Mr. Martin Tupper sent the following reply to me: "A fool...wonderfully active for so very stout a party. And I said : " 0 gentle pieman, why so very, very merry ? Is it purity of conscience, or your one-andseven sherry?"... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - Wit and humor - 1884 - 458 pages
...pastry-cook his doorway. There were fuchsias and geraniums, and daffodils and myrtle, So I entered, and 1 ordered half a basin of mock turtle. He was plump...wonderfully active for so very stout a party. And I said : " 0 gentle pieman, why so very, теry merry ? Is it purity of conscience, or your one-andseven sherry... | |
 | George Lansing Raymond - Aesthetics - 1886 - 386 pages
...Gilbert. And, also, things that move rapidly, as in the quotation from Scott above, as well as in these : And he chirped and sang and skipped about, and laughed...was wonderfully active for so very stout a party. Singing through the forest ; Rattling over ridges ; Shooting under arches , Rumbling over bridges ;... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - American periodicals - 1901 - 916 pages
...wandered — Patagonia, China, Norway, Till at last I sank exhausted, at a pastrycook his doorway. And he chirped and sang and skipped about, and laughed...wonderfully active for so very stout a party. And I said, "0, gentle pieman, why so very, very merry ? Is it purity of conscience, or your one-and-seven sherry... | |
 | George Lansing Raymond - Aesthetics - 1899 - 392 pages
...Gilbert. And, also, things that move rapidly, as in the quotation from Scott above, as well as in these : And he chirped and sang and skipped about, and laughed...was wonderfully active for so very stout a party. — Idem. Singing through the forests ; Rattling over ridges ; Shooting under arches , Rumbling over... | |
 | William Schwenck Gilbert - Ballads, English - 1901 - 216 pages
...and he was chubby, he was smooth and he was rosy, And his little wife was pretty, and particularly And he chirped and sang, and skipped about, and laughed...wonderfully active for so very stout a party. And I said, " Oh, gentle pieman, why so very, very merry ? Is it purity of conscience, or your one-and-seven sherry?"... | |
 | Algernon Sydney Roberts - 1903 - 118 pages
...Rochefoucauld. 33 Censure is the tax which a man pays to the public for being eminent. — Addison. Why so very, very merry ? Is it purity of conscience, or your onc-and-seven sherry ? Bab Ballads. My poverty, but not my will, consents. Shakespeare. We are slow... | |
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... Norway, Till at last I sank exhausted at a pastry-cook his doorway. There were fuchsias and geraniums, and daffodils and myrtle, So I entered, and I ordered half a basin of mock turtle. He was plump and he was chubby, he was smooth and he was rosy,... 
