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... seemed to throw them both into a rage enormous . MISTER CLOSE expressed a wish that he could only get anigh to me , And MISTER MARTIN TUPPER sent the following reply to me : - " A fool is bent upon a twig , but wise men dread a bandit ...
... seemed to throw them both into a rage enormous . MISTER CLOSE expressed a wish that he could only get anigh to me , And MISTER MARTIN TUPPER sent the following reply to me : - " A fool is bent upon a twig , but wise men dread a bandit ...
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... la Financière ! " LORD LARDY knew nothing of this The waiter's devotion ignored , But he gazed on the beautiful miss , And never seemed weary or bored . The waiter would screw up his nerve , His fingers LORENZO DE LARDY 43.
... la Financière ! " LORD LARDY knew nothing of this The waiter's devotion ignored , But he gazed on the beautiful miss , And never seemed weary or bored . The waiter would screw up his nerve , His fingers LORENZO DE LARDY 43.
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... seemed to me When first I painted them ; Invested with the circumstance Of old conventional romance : Exploded theorem ! The bard who could , all men above , Inflame my soul with songs of love , And , with his verse , inspire The craven ...
... seemed to me When first I painted them ; Invested with the circumstance Of old conventional romance : Exploded theorem ! The bard who could , all men above , Inflame my soul with songs of love , And , with his verse , inspire The craven ...
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... seemed to be , to leer At bonnets in Pall Mall . Would that ye always shone , who write , Bathed in your own innate lime - light , And ye who battles wage , Or that in darkness I had died Before my soul had ever sighed To see you off ...
... seemed to be , to leer At bonnets in Pall Mall . Would that ye always shone , who write , Bathed in your own innate lime - light , And ye who battles wage , Or that in darkness I had died Before my soul had ever sighed To see you off ...
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... seemed to disappoint him . But ere he went aboard his boat He placed around her little throat A ribbon , blue and yellow , On which he hung a double tooth A simple token this , in sooth ' T was all he had , poor fellow ! Bab " I often ...
... seemed to disappoint him . But ere he went aboard his boat He placed around her little throat A ribbon , blue and yellow , On which he hung a double tooth A simple token this , in sooth ' T was all he had , poor fellow ! Bab " I often ...
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adored AGIB ALICE ALICE BROWN ANGELINA ANGUS MCCLAN BAINES CAREW Ballads beautiful BILL Bishop blushed bo'sun tight bogy BORRIA BUNGALEE BOO BUMBOAT Canonbury CAPTAIN BAGG captain bold CAPTAIN REECE captain's gig Chickeraboo CORALINE crew cried croquet curate DALILAH dancing darter daughter dear DOODLE-DUM-DEH elderly ELLEN McJONES ABERDEEN Especially ELLEN McJONES exclaimed eyes FREDDY gentle gentleman ghost girl goblin GREEN and HARRIET hair HANCE HARRIET HALE heard Hooe HOPLEY PORter Hot Cross Bun JOHN knew LIEUTENANT BELAYE Lord loved maiden marry MARTIN TUPPER mate MICAH midshipmite mind MORELL mother never p'r'aps pantomime PECKHAM RYE PETER pibrochs PIERRE play poor pretty PRIVATE JAMES remark you'll sum REVEREND Roll round sailor Saracen Sassenach ship sigh smiled soul SOWLS tell THOMSON GREEN TOOTLE-TUM-Teh TORBAY TROUBADOUR true Turk twaddle twaddle twaddle twaddle twaddle twum weep wife Willow winked worthy young
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Page 66 - And he stirred it round and round and round, And he sniffed at the foaming froth; When I ups with his heels, and smothers his squeals In the scum of the boiling broth. "And I eat that cook in a week or less, And— as I eating be The last of his chops, why, I almost drops, For a wessel in sight I see!
Page 64 - Oh elderly man, it's little I know Of the duties of men of the sea, And I'll eat my hand if I understand How you can possibly be 'At once a cook, and a captain bold, And the mate of the Nancy brig, And a bo'sun tight, and a midshipmite, And the crew of the captain's gig.
Page 169 - TO THE TERRESTRIAL GLOBE BY A MISERABLE WRETCH ROLL on, thou ball, roll on ! Through pathless realms of Space Roll on! What, though I'm in a sorry case? What, though I cannot meet my bills? What, though I suffer toothache's ills ? What, though I swallow countless pills? Never you mind ! Roll on!
Page 173 - ... senses there will fall When she looks upon his body chopped particularly small." He traced that gallant sorter to a still suburban square ; He watched his opportunity, and seized him unaware; He took a life-preserver and he hit him on the head, And MRS. BROWN dissected him before she went to bed. And pretty little ALICE grew more settled in her mind, She never more was guilty of a weakness of the kind, Until at length good ROBBER BROWN bestowed her pretty hand On the promising young robber, the...
Page 171 - For shame," said Father Paul, "my erring daughter! On my word This is the most distressing news that I have ever heard. Why, naughty girl, your excellent papa has pledged your hand To a promising young robber, the lieutenant of his band! "This dreadful piece of news will pain your worthy parents so! They are the most remunerative customers I know; For many many years they've kept starvation from my doors, I never knew so criminal a family as yours! "The common country folk in this insipid neighborhood...
Page 65 - So we drawed a lot, and, accordin', shot The captain for our meal. "The next lot fell to the Nancy's mate, And a delicate dish he made; Then our appetite with the midshipmite We seven survivors stayed. "And then we murdered the bo'sun tight, And he much resembled pig; Then we wittled free, did the cook and me. On the crew of the captain's gig. "Then only the cook and me was left, And the delicate question, 'Which Of us two goes to the kettle?
Page 67 - And I never larf, and I never smile, And I never lark nor play, But sit and croak, and a single joke I have — which is to say: "Oh, I am a cook and a captain bold, And the mate of the Nancy brig, And a bo'sun tight, and a midshipmite, And the crew of the captain's gig!
Page 35 - 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 we let off paper crackers, each of which contained a motto, And she listened while I read them, till her mother told her not to. Then she whispered, "To the ball-room we had better, dear, be walking ; If we stop down here much longer, really people...
Page 64 - There was me and the cook and the captain bold, And the mate of the Nancy brig, And the bo'sun tight and a midshipmite, And the crew of the captain's gig. " For a month we'd neither wittles nor drink, Till a-hungry we did feel, So, we drawed a lot, and, accordin' shot, The captain for our meal.
Page 38 - Mister Close expressed a wish that he could only get anigh to me; And Mister Martin Tupper sent the following reply to me: "A fool is bent upon a twig, but wise men dread a bandit,"— Which I know was very clever; but I didn't understand it.