The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature of All Times and Nations, المجلد 3Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley Gebbie Publishing Company, Limited, 1884 |
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... honor , and for honorable birth ; Train'd in exercise and art , in sacred dance and song , All are ousted and supplanted by a base ignoble throng ; Paltry stamp and vulgar mettle raise them to command and place , Brazen counterfeit ...
... honor , and for honorable birth ; Train'd in exercise and art , in sacred dance and song , All are ousted and supplanted by a base ignoble throng ; Paltry stamp and vulgar mettle raise them to command and place , Brazen counterfeit ...
الصفحة 12
... honor ; if we fall , it must be so ! -But there was an ancient saying , which we all have heard and know , That the wise , in dangerous cases , have esteemed it safe and good To receive a slight chastisement from a wand of noble wood ...
... honor ; if we fall , it must be so ! -But there was an ancient saying , which we all have heard and know , That the wise , in dangerous cases , have esteemed it safe and good To receive a slight chastisement from a wand of noble wood ...
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... duty , the task of a poet , Fulfilling in honor , his office and trust , Look to traditional history - look To antiquity , primitive , early , remote . 2 See there , what a blessing illustrious poets | Now THE FROGS OF ARISTOPHANES . 17.
... duty , the task of a poet , Fulfilling in honor , his office and trust , Look to traditional history - look To antiquity , primitive , early , remote . 2 See there , what a blessing illustrious poets | Now THE FROGS OF ARISTOPHANES . 17.
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... honors . Representative in Congress from Ohio in 1830-40 , and again in 1859-61 , he was chosen Governor of Ohio in 1840 , Senator from 1845- savages were painted , whether red , black , or blue , or whether all were blended on their ...
... honors . Representative in Congress from Ohio in 1830-40 , and again in 1859-61 , he was chosen Governor of Ohio in 1840 , Senator from 1845- savages were painted , whether red , black , or blue , or whether all were blended on their ...
الصفحة 81
... honor , and had sunk under disappointed hopes and blighted affection . " Rallying from his mental disease , Swift wrote some of his best minor pieces , in- cluding " The Modest Proposal , " a master- piece of irony , in which he ...
... honor , and had sunk under disappointed hopes and blighted affection . " Rallying from his mental disease , Swift wrote some of his best minor pieces , in- cluding " The Modest Proposal , " a master- piece of irony , in which he ...
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الصفحة 190 - An ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.
الصفحة 370 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
الصفحة 361 - I cannot eat but little meat, My stomach is not good ; But sure I think, that I can drink With him that wears a hood : Though I go bare, take ye no care ; I nothing am a-cold : I stuff my skin so full within Of jolly good ale and old.
الصفحة 33 - Tam wi' furious ettle; But little wist she Maggie's mettle! Ae spring brought off her master hale, But left behind her ain grey tail: The carlin claught her by the rump, And left poor Maggie scarce a stump. Now, wha this tale o...
الصفحة 82 - To Dr. Jonathan Swift, the most agreeable companion, the truest friend, and the -greatest genius of his age.
الصفحة 32 - But pleasures are like poppies spread — You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow falls in the river — A moment white, then melts for ever; Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. Nae man can tether time or tide ; The hour approaches Tam maun ride; That hour, o...
الصفحة 297 - Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgra.be. "Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!" He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long time the manxome foe he sought — So rested he by the Tumtum tree, And stood awhile in thought. And as in uffish thought he stood, The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, Came whiffling through the tulgey...
الصفحة 190 - Defend me therefore, common sense, say I, From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up...
الصفحة 278 - Mrs. Bardell's opinions of the opposite sex, gentlemen, were derived from a long contemplation of the inestimable qualities of her lost husband. She had no fear, she had no distrust, she had no suspicion, all was confidence and reliance. ' Mr. Bardell,' said the widow,
الصفحة 128 - A WELL there is in the west country, And a clearer one never was seen ; There is not a wife in the west country But has heard of the Well of St. Keyne.