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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1. oldal
... strong liquors in great excess , as some have reported ten pounds ' worth in a morning , setting up a Maypole , drinking and dancing about it , and frisking about it like so many fairies , or furies rather , yea , and worse practices ...
... strong liquors in great excess , as some have reported ten pounds ' worth in a morning , setting up a Maypole , drinking and dancing about it , and frisking about it like so many fairies , or furies rather , yea , and worse practices ...
18. oldal
... strong relish for every thing gaudy . Besides , she had an high - met- tled chaplain who was constantly at her elbow , and said prayers night and morning in a brocaded cope with a gilded mitre on his head ; and he ex- acted so many bows ...
... strong relish for every thing gaudy . Besides , she had an high - met- tled chaplain who was constantly at her elbow , and said prayers night and morning in a brocaded cope with a gilded mitre on his head ; and he ex- acted so many bows ...
20. oldal
... strong complexion of true Indian race , Which time can never change , nor soil impair , Nor Alpine snows , nor Turkey's morbid air ; For endless years , through every mild domain , Where grows the maize , there thou art sure to reign ...
... strong complexion of true Indian race , Which time can never change , nor soil impair , Nor Alpine snows , nor Turkey's morbid air ; For endless years , through every mild domain , Where grows the maize , there thou art sure to reign ...
21. oldal
... strong rays , Ask of thy mother earth the needful maize ; She loves the race that courts her yielding soil , And gives her bounties to the sons of toil . When now the ox , obedient to thy call , Repays the loan that fill'd the winter ...
... strong rays , Ask of thy mother earth the needful maize ; She loves the race that courts her yielding soil , And gives her bounties to the sons of toil . When now the ox , obedient to thy call , Repays the loan that fill'd the winter ...
22. oldal
... strong labial muscles must embrace The gentle curve , and sweep the hollow space . With ease to enter and discharge the freight , A bowl less concave , but still more dilate , Becomes the pudding best . The shape , the size , A secret ...
... strong labial muscles must embrace The gentle curve , and sweep the hollow space . With ease to enter and discharge the freight , A bowl less concave , but still more dilate , Becomes the pudding best . The shape , the size , A secret ...
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