 PART I AT a pleasant evening party I had taken down to supper One whom I will call ELVIRA, and we talked of love and TUPPER, MR. TUPPER and the poets, very lightly with them dealing, For I've always been distinguished for a strong poetic feeling. Then...  Fun - Page 2271865Full view - About this book
 | sir William Schwenck Gilbert - 1870 - 174 pages
...had taken down to supper One whom I will call ELVIRA, and we talked of love and TUPPER, MR. TUPPER and the poets, very lightly with them dealing. For...captains by the hundred, there were baronets by dozens. Yet she heeded not their offers, but dismissed them with a blessing ; Then she let down all her back... | |
 | William Schwenck Gilbert - Ballads, English - 1878 - 270 pages
...we talked of love and TUPPER, MR. TUPPER and the 'Poets, very lightly with them dealing, For I ;ve always been distinguished for a strong poetic feeling....captains by the hundred, there were baronets by dozens. Yet she heeded not their offers, but dismissed them with a blessing, Then she let down all her back... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - English literature - 1879 - 722 pages
...had taken down to supper One whom I will call Elvira, and we talked of love and Tupper, Mr. Tupper and the poets, very lightly with them dealing, For...captains by the hundred, there were baronets by dozens, Yet she heeded not their offers, but dismissed them with a blessing ; Then she let down all her back-hair... | |
 | English poetry - 1884 - 328 pages
...had taken down to supper One whom I will call Elvira, and we talked of love and Tupper, Mr. Tupper and the poets, very lightly with them dealing, For...captains by the hundred, there were baronets by dozens, Yet she heeded not their offers, but dismissed them with a blessing ; Then she let down all her back-hair... | |
 | Oliver Bell Bunce - English poetry - 1884 - 110 pages
...Tupper and the poets, very lightly with them dealing, For I've always been distinguished for a strong Then we let off paper crackers, each of which contained...captains by the hundred, there were baronets by dozens, Yet she heeded not their offers, but dismissed them with a blessing ; Then she let down all her back-hair... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - Wit and humor - 1884 - 460 pages
...supper One whom I will call Elvira, and we talked of love and Tupper. Mr. Tupper and the Poets, тегу lightly with them dealing, For I've always been distinguished...really people will be talking." There were noblemen in coronéis, and military cousins, There were captains by the hundred, there were baronets by dozens.... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - Wit and humor - 1884 - 458 pages
...had taken down to supper One whom I will call Elvira, and we talked of love and Tupper. Mr. Tupper and the Poets, very lightly with them dealing, For...she whispered : " To the ball-room we had better, denr, be walking ¡ If we stop down here much longer, really people will be talking." There were noblemen... | |
 | George Lansing Raymond - Aesthetics - 1886 - 386 pages
...I had taken down to supper One whom I will call Elvira, and we talked of love and Tupper. ********* Then we let off paper crackers, each of which contained...while I read them, till her mother told her not to. — Ferdinando and Elvira : Gilbert. And, also, things that move rapidly, as in the quotation from... | |
 | George Lansing Raymond - Aesthetics - 1899 - 392 pages
...have a rattling effect, analogous to loudness that does not convey an impression of strength — eg : Then we let off paper crackers, each of which contained...while I read them, till her mother told her not to. — Ferdinando and Elvira : Gilbert. Now elderly men of the bachelor crew. With wrinkled hose And spectacled... | |
 | William Schwenck Gilbert - Ballads, English - 1901 - 216 pages
...had taken down to supper One whom I will call ELVIRA, and we talked of love and TUPPER. MR. TUPPER and the poets, very lightly with them dealing, For...cousins, There were captains by the hundred, there were Yet she heeded not their offers, but dismissed them with a blessing ; Then she let down all her back-hair... | |
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