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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12. oldal
... hour , Had got their en'mies in their power They first proceed , by grave command , To take the constable in hand . Then from the pole's sublimest top The active crew let down a rope , And looking forth in prospect wide , His Tory ...
... hour , Had got their en'mies in their power They first proceed , by grave command , To take the constable in hand . Then from the pole's sublimest top The active crew let down a rope , And looking forth in prospect wide , His Tory ...
29. oldal
... hour they deign'd to come , One single cobweb was not brush'd away ; Fate early had pronounc'd this building's doom , Ne'er to be vex'd with boonder , brush , or broom . Here , full in view , the ink - bespangled press Gives to the ...
... hour they deign'd to come , One single cobweb was not brush'd away ; Fate early had pronounc'd this building's doom , Ne'er to be vex'd with boonder , brush , or broom . Here , full in view , the ink - bespangled press Gives to the ...
31. oldal
... hour of deadly strife ; Knife of little roguish boy , Who thee seizes for a toy- When the butcher sad or grinning Round thy suburbs falls to cleaning , With his water smoking hot , Lately boiling in a pot ; Pot which often did contain ...
... hour of deadly strife ; Knife of little roguish boy , Who thee seizes for a toy- When the butcher sad or grinning Round thy suburbs falls to cleaning , With his water smoking hot , Lately boiling in a pot ; Pot which often did contain ...
41. oldal
... hour , you may put your feet over the fire - place , and if your visitor stay two hours , and be somewhat tedious and unprofitable , contrive by all means to get a table between you , and thrust your feet up into his face . Time is ...
... hour , you may put your feet over the fire - place , and if your visitor stay two hours , and be somewhat tedious and unprofitable , contrive by all means to get a table between you , and thrust your feet up into his face . Time is ...
42. oldal
... hour to spend , And , placed on high above the storm's career , Looked downward , where a hundred realms appear ... hours of inspiration , when " contemplating man , the sun , moon , and stars . " To say nothing of in- numerable others ...
... hour to spend , And , placed on high above the storm's career , Looked downward , where a hundred realms appear ... hours of inspiration , when " contemplating man , the sun , moon , and stars . " To say nothing of in- numerable others ...
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