The Book of Humorous PoetryWilliam P. Nimmo, 1867 - 464 pages |
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... Lines on Dr. Johnson Literary Lady ( The ) . Lodgings for Single Gentlemen Love in a Cottage Lover's Chronicle ( A ) Love Song ( A ) Might and Right Milkmaid ( The ) Model Sermon ( A ) Modern Logic Money John Still , Leigh Hunt , James ...
... Lines on Dr. Johnson Literary Lady ( The ) . Lodgings for Single Gentlemen Love in a Cottage Lover's Chronicle ( A ) Love Song ( A ) Might and Right Milkmaid ( The ) Model Sermon ( A ) Modern Logic Money John Still , Leigh Hunt , James ...
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W. A. Butler , Charles Dibdin , INDEX OF FIRST LINES . PAGE A beautiful maiden was. PAGE Mr. Barney Maguire's Account of the Coronation Nahum Fay on the loss of his Wife Neighbour Nelly • Newcastle Apothecary ( The ) New Dance ( The ) ...
W. A. Butler , Charles Dibdin , INDEX OF FIRST LINES . PAGE A beautiful maiden was. PAGE Mr. Barney Maguire's Account of the Coronation Nahum Fay on the loss of his Wife Neighbour Nelly • Newcastle Apothecary ( The ) New Dance ( The ) ...
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INDEX OF FIRST LINES . PAGE A beautiful maiden was little Min - Ne , A brace of sinners , for no good , A brewer in a country town , A citizen , for recreation's sake , A counsel in the Common Pleas , A country squire , of greater ...
INDEX OF FIRST LINES . PAGE A beautiful maiden was little Min - Ne , A brace of sinners , for no good , A brewer in a country town , A citizen , for recreation's sake , A counsel in the Common Pleas , A country squire , of greater ...
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... drinking , PAGE 181 · 306 272 342 86 57 366 225 137 341 403 310 324 26 • 49 262 7 · 300 283 217 439 • 430 440 186 • • 379 260 127 III 451 69 123 222 389 270 I du believe in Freedom's cause , If , in xii INDEX OF FIRST LINES .
... drinking , PAGE 181 · 306 272 342 86 57 366 225 137 341 403 310 324 26 • 49 262 7 · 300 283 217 439 • 430 440 186 • • 379 260 127 III 451 69 123 222 389 270 I du believe in Freedom's cause , If , in xii INDEX OF FIRST LINES .
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... lines , once on a time , Jacob ! I do not like to see thy nose , John Bull for pastime took a prance , John Davidson and Tib his wife , Just eighteen years ago this day , La Gallisse now I wish to touch , Like merry Momus , while the ...
... lines , once on a time , Jacob ! I do not like to see thy nose , John Bull for pastime took a prance , John Davidson and Tib his wife , Just eighteen years ago this day , La Gallisse now I wish to touch , Like merry Momus , while the ...
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ABRAHAM COWLEY annuity black crows call'd Captain Paton CHARLES DIBDIN courtier cried dance dead dear Devil Dolt drink e'er eyes face fair fools frae give grace hair head heart Henry Glassford Bell horse humorous Hyst John John Barleycorn Jurym kind as pray King Lady Morgan laugh live look'd Lord maid Monsieur Tonson MUTCHKIN ne'er never night ninety lines niversity of Göttingen nose o'er once Pannel pass'd Paton no mo Peter PINDAR plain poems poet poor pride proud quoth Radenovitch RICHARD PORSON ROBERT SOUTHEY round sare Schnapps seem'd sleep smile song soul Squire sure sweet tail tell thee there's thet thing thou thought Tis green took town Twas Vicar of Bray wear wife worm young Yvetot Zounds
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Page 220 - Little of all we value here Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year Without both feeling and looking queer. In fact, there's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth.
Page 221 - At half past nine by the meet'n'-house clock,— Just the hour of the Earthquake shock! —What do you think the parson found, When he got up and stared around? The poor old chaise in a heap or mound, As if it had been to the mill and ground! You see, of course, if you're not a dunce, How it went to pieces all at once,— All at once, and nothing first,— Just as bubbles do when they burst.
Page 195 - Or like the Borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place; Or like the rainbow's lovely form / Evanishing amid the storm.
Page 386 - ... BACK and side go bare, go bare, Both foot and hand go cold; But, belly, God send thee good ale enough, Whether it be new or old.
Page 220 - ... chance for one to start, For the wheels were just as strong as the thills, And the floor was just as strong as the sills And the panels just as strong as the floor, And the whipple-tree neither less nor more, And the back-crossbar as strong as the fore.
Page 87 - On the whole it appears, and my argument shows, With a reasoning the court will never condemn, That the spectacles plainly were made for the Nose, And the Nose was as plainly intended for them.
Page 196 - And sic a night he taks the road in As ne'er poor sinner was abroad in. The wind blew as 'twad blawn its last; The rattling...
Page 218 - So the Deacon inquired of the village folk Where he could find the strongest oak, That could n't be split nor bent nor broke, — That was for spokes and floor and sills; He sent for lancewood to make the thills; The crossbars were ash, from the straightest trees, The panels of white-wood, that cuts like cheese, But lasts like iron for things like these; The hubs of logs from the "Settler's ellum...
Page 86 - So Tongue was the lawyer, and argued the cause With a great deal of skill, and a wig full of learning ; While chief baron Ear sat to balance the laws, So famed for his talent in nicely discerning. In behalf of the Nose it will quickly appear, And your lordship...
Page 306 - And they hae taen his very heart's blood, And drank it round and round; And still the more and more they drank, Their joy did more abound.