The Humorous Speaker: Being a Choice Collection of Amusing Pieces, Both in Prose and Verse, Original and Selected : Consisting of Dialogues, Soliloquies, Parodies &c. : Designed for the Use of Schools, Literary Societies, Debating Clubs, Social Circles and Domestic Entertainment |
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... true , And monkeys too , Are a sort of ghastly , grinning crew , But the genuine laugh belongs to man , And he ought to enjoy it as best he can . " There is a time to laugh , " the wise man said , And a place , I ween , if this book be ...
... true , And monkeys too , Are a sort of ghastly , grinning crew , But the genuine laugh belongs to man , And he ought to enjoy it as best he can . " There is a time to laugh , " the wise man said , And a place , I ween , if this book be ...
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... true Of him that hates , And sharp berates , The sin , but not the sinning pates , That vice and folly have rendered crazy , Foppish or rakish , profane or lazy , Extravagant , flippant - I know not what— From a sober fool to a silly ...
... true Of him that hates , And sharp berates , The sin , but not the sinning pates , That vice and folly have rendered crazy , Foppish or rakish , profane or lazy , Extravagant , flippant - I know not what— From a sober fool to a silly ...
Page vi
... true words are spoken in jokes ; And many will take , in a jocose way , What , soberly said , would drive them away ; And many will see , in a ludicrous scene , Portraits so finished , ( their own , I ween , ) As to cure them of follies ...
... true words are spoken in jokes ; And many will take , in a jocose way , What , soberly said , would drive them away ; And many will see , in a ludicrous scene , Portraits so finished , ( their own , I ween , ) As to cure them of follies ...
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... true law Latin ; which set forth in their declaration , that they were carried away either by the tide of flood or the tide of ebb . The charter of the water - bailiff was as follows : " Aqua bailiffi est magistratus in choisi , sapor ...
... true law Latin ; which set forth in their declaration , that they were carried away either by the tide of flood or the tide of ebb . The charter of the water - bailiff was as follows : " Aqua bailiffi est magistratus in choisi , sapor ...
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... True , sir . Sir Ch . I cannot but think what superlative pleasure I shall have , when my son has got his education . No other man's in England shall be comparative with it — of that I am positive . Why , sir , the moderns are such dull ...
... True , sir . Sir Ch . I cannot but think what superlative pleasure I shall have , when my son has got his education . No other man's in England shall be comparative with it — of that I am positive . Why , sir , the moderns are such dull ...
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Page 255 - My liege, I did deny no prisoners. But, I remember, when the fight was done, When I was dry with rage, and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat, trimly...
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Page 221 - As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky, So up to the housetop the coursers they flew, With the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas, too. And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof The prancing and pawing of each little hoof. As I drew in my head, and was turning around, Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound. He...
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Page 288 - He was in logic a great critic, Profoundly skilled in analytic; He could distinguish and divide A hair 'twixt south and south-west side; On either which he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute. He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument, a man's no horse; He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a lord may be an owl, A calf an alderman, a goose a justice, And rooks committee-men and trustees. He'd run in debt by disputation, And pay with ratiocination.
Page 221 - He was dressed all in fur from his head to his foot, And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot; A bundle of toys he had flung on his back, And he looked" like a peddler just opening his pack.
Page 67 - SEA The Sea! the Sea! the open Sea! The blue, the fresh, the ever free! Without a mark, without a bound, It runneth the earth's wide regions 'round; It plays with the clouds; it mocks the skies; Or like a cradled creature lies. I'm on the Sea! I'm on the Sea! I am where I would ever be...
Page 220 - Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.
Page 389 - Should I turn upon the true prince ? Why, thou knowest, I am as valiant as Hercules: but beware instinct; the lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter ; I was a coward on instinct. I shall think the better of myself and thee, during my life; I, for a valiant lion, and thou for a true prince.
Page 120 - BETWEEN Nose and Eyes a strange contest arose, The spectacles set them unhappily wrong ; The point in dispute was, as all the world knows, To which the said spectacles ought to belong. So...