The Book of Humorous PoetryWilliam P. Nimmo, 1867 - 464 pages |
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... Eating ( The ) Printer's Devil's Work ( The ) Proud Miss MacBride ( The ) Proverbs • • Prythee , Why so Pale ? Sir John Suckling , 259 Pupil of Merlin ( The ) · Goethe , • • 283 PAGE Rape of the Trap Razor Seller ( The ) viii CONTENTS .
... Eating ( The ) Printer's Devil's Work ( The ) Proud Miss MacBride ( The ) Proverbs • • Prythee , Why so Pale ? Sir John Suckling , 259 Pupil of Merlin ( The ) · Goethe , • • 283 PAGE Rape of the Trap Razor Seller ( The ) viii CONTENTS .
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... proud , From Oberon , in fairy land , ' God bless the man who first invented sleep , ' Good people all , with one accord , • Great Merlin of old had a magical trick , Have you heard of the wonderful one - hoss shay ? Here lies old ...
... proud , From Oberon , in fairy land , ' God bless the man who first invented sleep , ' Good people all , with one accord , • Great Merlin of old had a magical trick , Have you heard of the wonderful one - hoss shay ? Here lies old ...
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... proud was MISS MACBRIDE , Old Grimes is dead : that good old man , 90 126 369 238 249 Old man , old man ! for whom digg'st thou this grave , 262 · Old Nick , who taught a village school , 409 O Maryanne , you pretty girl , 106 Once on a ...
... proud was MISS MACBRIDE , Old Grimes is dead : that good old man , 90 126 369 238 249 Old man , old man ! for whom digg'st thou this grave , 262 · Old Nick , who taught a village school , 409 O Maryanne , you pretty girl , 106 Once on a ...
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... proudly dares to say , That none can possibly be saved but they That hang religion in a naked ear , And judge men's hearts according to their hair ; That could afford to doubt , who wrote best sense 24 THE BOOK OF Abraham Cowley,
... proudly dares to say , That none can possibly be saved but they That hang religion in a naked ear , And judge men's hearts according to their hair ; That could afford to doubt , who wrote best sense 24 THE BOOK OF Abraham Cowley,
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... proud , Who values herself on her family's blood : Who seldom talks sense , but for ever is loud , Libera me ! From living i ' th ' parish that has an old kirk , Where the parson would rule like a Jew or a Turk , And keep a poor curate ...
... proud , Who values herself on her family's blood : Who seldom talks sense , but for ever is loud , Libera me ! From living i ' th ' parish that has an old kirk , Where the parson would rule like a Jew or a Turk , And keep a poor curate ...
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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.