The Humorous Poetry of the English Language: From Chaucer to Saxe ... with Notes, Explanatory and Biographical |
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BARHAM Beignet BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE bless Blogg boys Brentford charms cried dead DEAN SWIFT dear delight devil dish divine dost e'er EPIGRAMS eyes face fair fancy fear give grace hair hand happy hath head hear heart heaven humorous Ingoldsby Legends JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL JAMES TAYLOR Jones kind king kiss lady Lille long-tail'd coat look Lord ma'am maid majesty MATTHEW PRIOR mind morning Muse N. P. WILLIS ne'er never night niversity nose numbers o'er once PETER PINDAR PINDAR poem poet poor pound pray pretty Prince PUNCH quoth REJECTED ADDRESSES ROBERT SOUTHEY rose round Saint scarce seem'd sigh sing sinners smile song soul swear sweet tell thee There's thet thing THOMAS HOOD THOMAS MOORE thou thought took town turn'd verse Whitbread wife young Zounds
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Page 248 - The cudgel in my nieve did shake, Each bristl'd hair stood like a stake, When wi' an eldritch, stoor quaick, quaick, Amang the springs, Awa ye squatter'd like a drake, On whistling wings. Let warlocks grim, an' wither'd hags, Tell how wi...
Page 98 - The fair round face, the snowy beard, The velvet of her paws, Her coat, that with the tortoise vies, Her ears of jet and emerald eyes, She saw, and purred applause.
Page 242 - BETWEEN Nose and Eyes a strange contest arose, The spectacles set them unhappily wrong ; The point in dispute was, as all the world knows, To which the said spectacles ought to belong. So...
Page 40 - Distrust the condiment that bites so soon; But deem it not, thou man of herbs, a fault To add a double quantity of salt; Four times the spoon with oil of Lucca crown, And twice with vinegar procured from town; And lastly o'er the flavoured compound toss A magic soupcon of anchovy sauce.
Page 319 - WERTHER had a love for Charlotte Such as words could never utter ; Would you know how first he met her? She was cutting bread and butter. Charlotte was a married lady, And a moral man was Werther, And for all the wealth of Indies, Would do nothing for to hurt her. So he sighed and pined and ogled, And his passion boiled and bubbled, Till he blew his silly brains out, And no more was by it troubled. _*• Charlotte, having seen his body Borne before her on a shutter, Like a well-conducted person,...
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Page 32 - For thy sake, Tobacco, I Would do anything but die, And but seek to extend my days Long enough to sing thy praise.
Page 243 - PRAYER 0 thou, wha in the Heavens dost dwell, Wha, as it pleases best thysel', Sends ane to heaven and ten to hell, A' for thy glory, And no for ony guid or ill They've done afore thee!
Page 53 - Vicar. His talk was like a stream which runs With rapid change from rocks to roses; It slipped from politics to puns; It passed from Mahomet to Moses; Beginning with the laws which keep The planets in their radiant courses, And ending with some precept deep For dressing eels or shoeing horses.