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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28. oldal
... Look when you will , you see the vacant bench , No butcher seated there , no country wench . Great aims were his , who first contriv'd this town ; A market he would have - but , humbled now , Sighing , we see its fabric mould'ring down ...
... Look when you will , you see the vacant bench , No butcher seated there , no country wench . Great aims were his , who first contriv'd this town ; A market he would have - but , humbled now , Sighing , we see its fabric mould'ring down ...
42. oldal
... look for almost indefinite advances towards the future per- fectibility of our race . Its name is the delving . Fourthly . Now , Mr. Editor , let your elbow remain precisely where it was in the last posture ; but in stead of knitting ...
... look for almost indefinite advances towards the future per- fectibility of our race . Its name is the delving . Fourthly . Now , Mr. Editor , let your elbow remain precisely where it was in the last posture ; but in stead of knitting ...
52. oldal
... look wise , and shake their heads , whenever his affairs are men- tioned . They all " hope that matters are not so bad with him as represented ; but when a man's own children begin to rail at his extravagance , things must be badly ...
... look wise , and shake their heads , whenever his affairs are men- tioned . They all " hope that matters are not so bad with him as represented ; but when a man's own children begin to rail at his extravagance , things must be badly ...
56. oldal
... look , like one Who sadly leaves the guilty . You and I Must watch , when all is dark , and steal along By these lone trees , and wait for plunder . - Hush ! I hear the coming of some luckless wheel , Bearing , we know not what ...
... look , like one Who sadly leaves the guilty . You and I Must watch , when all is dark , and steal along By these lone trees , and wait for plunder . - Hush ! I hear the coming of some luckless wheel , Bearing , we know not what ...
69. oldal
... look of alarm , which the heroic schoolmaster had hoped to see , but with a mixed expression of humor , indig- nation , and pity . Having finished his manoeuvres , he advanced somewhat nearer to Mary , and re- peated- " I say , Miss ...
... look of alarm , which the heroic schoolmaster had hoped to see , but with a mixed expression of humor , indig- nation , and pity . Having finished his manoeuvres , he advanced somewhat nearer to Mary , and re- peated- " I say , Miss ...
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