The Cyclopaedia of Wit and Humor: Containing Choice and Characteristic Selections from the Writings of the Most Eminent Humorists of America, Ireland, Scotland, and England ...William Evans Burton D. Appleton, 1859 |
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13. oldal
... face , All Rome attends him through the street , In triumph to his country - seat ; With like devotion all the choir Paraded round our awful ' Squire ; In front the martial music comes , Of horns and fiddles , fifes and drums , With ...
... face , All Rome attends him through the street , In triumph to his country - seat ; With like devotion all the choir Paraded round our awful ' Squire ; In front the martial music comes , Of horns and fiddles , fifes and drums , With ...
41. oldal
... face a similar example . When you are thus both seated according to due form and manner , you may inter- change thoughts with much facility and effect . But be sure not to abandon the cross - kneed posture till the end of the first half ...
... face a similar example . When you are thus both seated according to due form and manner , you may inter- change thoughts with much facility and effect . But be sure not to abandon the cross - kneed posture till the end of the first half ...
43. oldal
... face . There is the sheepish posture , formed by placing your legs and feet parallel and together , laying both hands upon your knees , and contemplating no earthly thing save your own pantaloons . This is to be as- sumed when you are ...
... face . There is the sheepish posture , formed by placing your legs and feet parallel and together , laying both hands upon your knees , and contemplating no earthly thing save your own pantaloons . This is to be as- sumed when you are ...
47. oldal
... face , went down stairs in a violent flurry . The Stout Gentleman had been rude to her ! This sent a whole host of my deductions to the deuce in a moment . This unknown personage could not be an old gentleman ; for old gentlemen are not ...
... face , went down stairs in a violent flurry . The Stout Gentleman had been rude to her ! This sent a whole host of my deductions to the deuce in a moment . This unknown personage could not be an old gentleman ; for old gentlemen are not ...
52. oldal
... face , which he used to present , he has of late become as shrivelled and shrunk as a frost - bitten apple . His scarlet gold- laced waistcoat , which bellied out so bravely in those prosperous days when he sailed before the wind , now ...
... face , which he used to present , he has of late become as shrivelled and shrunk as a frost - bitten apple . His scarlet gold- laced waistcoat , which bellied out so bravely in those prosperous days when he sailed before the wind , now ...
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