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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7. oldal
... sure no man E'er saw so strange a battle . The rebel dales , the rebel vales , With rebel trees surrounded ; The distant woods , the hills and floods , With rebel echoes sounded . The fish below swam to and fro , Attack'd from every ...
... sure no man E'er saw so strange a battle . The rebel dales , the rebel vales , With rebel trees surrounded ; The distant woods , the hills and floods , With rebel echoes sounded . The fish below swam to and fro , Attack'd from every ...
20. oldal
... sure to reign . Through the rough sieve to shake the golden shower , In boiling water stir the yellow flour : The yellow flour , bestrew'd and stirr'd with haste , Swells in the flood and thickens to a paste , Then puffs and wallops ...
... sure to reign . Through the rough sieve to shake the golden shower , In boiling water stir the yellow flour : The yellow flour , bestrew'd and stirr'd with haste , Swells in the flood and thickens to a paste , Then puffs and wallops ...
22. oldal
... sure no laws he ever keeps so well : For each red ear a general kiss he gains , With each smut ear he smuts the luckless swains ; But when to some sweet maid a prize is cast , Red as her lips and taper as her waist , She walks the round ...
... sure no laws he ever keeps so well : For each red ear a general kiss he gains , With each smut ear he smuts the luckless swains ; But when to some sweet maid a prize is cast , Red as her lips and taper as her waist , She walks the round ...
39. oldal
... Sure , ' tis a folly , humble degradation , For a strong biped , muscular , and nervous , Tied to a horse - tail , in a creaking coach to Drag on dependent . " But it is quicker - it is less fatiguing ; " True , these are reasons , when ...
... Sure , ' tis a folly , humble degradation , For a strong biped , muscular , and nervous , Tied to a horse - tail , in a creaking coach to Drag on dependent . " But it is quicker - it is less fatiguing ; " True , these are reasons , when ...
41. oldal
... sure immediately to assume it on the entrance of a stranger into his study . It is almost as great a mark of ill - breeding to use any other mode of sit- ting on such an occasion , as it would be to hold your book still open in your ...
... sure immediately to assume it on the entrance of a stranger into his study . It is almost as great a mark of ill - breeding to use any other mode of sit- ting on such an occasion , as it would be to hold your book still open in your ...
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