The Humorous Poetry of the English Language: From Chaucer to Saxe |
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... sound , And in the even balance weigh them well . See now to what this obstinacy comes : A poor , mistreated , democratic beast , He knows that his unmerciful drivers seek Their profit , and not his . He hath not learned That pigs were ...
... sound , And in the even balance weigh them well . See now to what this obstinacy comes : A poor , mistreated , democratic beast , He knows that his unmerciful drivers seek Their profit , and not his . He hath not learned That pigs were ...
Page 29
... sounds of praise , And jokes that must be laughed at shall proceed . A FAREWELL TO TOBACCO . MAY the Babylonish curse CHARLES LAMB . Straight confound my stammering verse , If I can a passage see In this word - perplexity , Or a fit ...
... sounds of praise , And jokes that must be laughed at shall proceed . A FAREWELL TO TOBACCO . MAY the Babylonish curse CHARLES LAMB . Straight confound my stammering verse , If I can a passage see In this word - perplexity , Or a fit ...
Page 53
... sound divine , Of loud Dissent the mortal terror ; And when , by dint of page and line , He ' stablished Truth , or started Error , The Baptist found him far too deep ; The Deist sighed with saving sorrow ; And the lean Levite went to ...
... sound divine , Of loud Dissent the mortal terror ; And when , by dint of page and line , He ' stablished Truth , or started Error , The Baptist found him far too deep ; The Deist sighed with saving sorrow ; And the lean Levite went to ...
Page 57
... sound of infant voice ; Young innocence is full of charms : There's not a pleasure half so choice , As tossing up a child in arms . Babyhood is a blessed state , Felicity expressly made for ; But still , on earth it is our fate , That ...
... sound of infant voice ; Young innocence is full of charms : There's not a pleasure half so choice , As tossing up a child in arms . Babyhood is a blessed state , Felicity expressly made for ; But still , on earth it is our fate , That ...
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... tumbled on the stones , And some confounded cart had crush'd their bones . After well fright'ning people with their cries , And sticking to a ribbon - shop their eyes , They all rush'd in , with sounds enough to stun 94 NARRATIVE .
... tumbled on the stones , And some confounded cart had crush'd their bones . After well fright'ning people with their cries , And sticking to a ribbon - shop their eyes , They all rush'd in , with sounds enough to stun 94 NARRATIVE .
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