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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34. oldal
... story of Alfred , who , he says , is known to have lived during his concealment in a mountainous country , and as he watched the cakes on the fire , might have been sent to bring water . But his acute annotator , Vandergruten , has ...
... story of Alfred , who , he says , is known to have lived during his concealment in a mountainous country , and as he watched the cakes on the fire , might have been sent to bring water . But his acute annotator , Vandergruten , has ...
35. oldal
... story , as he thought , poor elf ! But not a single soul his suffrage gave- While each long phiz was serious as the grave ! Laugh ! laugh ! cries Hodge , laugh loud ! ( no halfing , ) I thought you all , ere this , would die with ...
... story , as he thought , poor elf ! But not a single soul his suffrage gave- While each long phiz was serious as the grave ! Laugh ! laugh ! cries Hodge , laugh loud ! ( no halfing , ) I thought you all , ere this , would die with ...
61. oldal
... story got abroad - indeed the lady could not resist telling it herself to a friend , with strict injunctions of secrecy --and all Paris became still more devoted to the sublime science for having afforded such an excel- lent subject for ...
... story got abroad - indeed the lady could not resist telling it herself to a friend , with strict injunctions of secrecy --and all Paris became still more devoted to the sublime science for having afforded such an excel- lent subject for ...
66. oldal
... story A hundred times ; and heard it told ; nay , told it Myself to my younger sisters , when we've shrank Together in the sheets , from very terror , And , with protecting arms each round the other , E'en sobb'd ourselves to sleep ...
... story A hundred times ; and heard it told ; nay , told it Myself to my younger sisters , when we've shrank Together in the sheets , from very terror , And , with protecting arms each round the other , E'en sobb'd ourselves to sleep ...
67. oldal
... stories literally ; But the more elderly and wise deduce A moral from the fiction . In a word , The wolf that you must ... story goes , Deceived poor grandam first , and ate her up : What is the moral here ? Have all our grandmas Been ...
... stories literally ; But the more elderly and wise deduce A moral from the fiction . In a word , The wolf that you must ... story goes , Deceived poor grandam first , and ate her up : What is the moral here ? Have all our grandmas Been ...
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