The Book of Humorous PoetryWilliam P. Nimmo, 1867 - 464 من الصفحات |
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عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
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
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.