The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature of All Times and Nations, Volume 3Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley Gebbie Publishing Company, Limited, 1884 |
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... Lord Byron's Reply to the Ladies ' Petition . The Dumb Waiter Ten Jests of Hierocles The Widow . The Collegian and the Porter . Love in a Cottage . On Lending a Punch Bowl . A Shooting Exploit of Tom Sheridan Sympathy . The Town of ...
... Lord Byron's Reply to the Ladies ' Petition . The Dumb Waiter Ten Jests of Hierocles The Widow . The Collegian and the Porter . Love in a Cottage . On Lending a Punch Bowl . A Shooting Exploit of Tom Sheridan Sympathy . The Town of ...
Pagina 25
... Lord gives a blessing to my homilies ; they touch the hearts of sinners , make them seriously reflect on their conduct , and have recourse to re- pentance . I have sometimes the satisfac- tion to see a miser terrified by the images ...
... Lord gives a blessing to my homilies ; they touch the hearts of sinners , make them seriously reflect on their conduct , and have recourse to re- pentance . I have sometimes the satisfac- tion to see a miser terrified by the images ...
Pagina 36
... lords and ladies gay ; For a Lalland face he feared none , My gallant braw John Highlandman . Sing , hey , & c . They banished him beyond the sea , But ere the bud was on the tree , Adown my cheeks the pearls ran , Embracing my John ...
... lords and ladies gay ; For a Lalland face he feared none , My gallant braw John Highlandman . Sing , hey , & c . They banished him beyond the sea , But ere the bud was on the tree , Adown my cheeks the pearls ran , Embracing my John ...
Pagina 37
... lord , a wight o ' Homer's craft , Tho ' limping wi ' the spavie , He hirpl'd up , and lap like daft , And shor'd them Dainty Davie O boot that night . He was a care - defying blade As ever Bacchus listed , Tho ' Fortune sair upon him ...
... lord , a wight o ' Homer's craft , Tho ' limping wi ' the spavie , He hirpl'd up , and lap like daft , And shor'd them Dainty Davie O boot that night . He was a care - defying blade As ever Bacchus listed , Tho ' Fortune sair upon him ...
Pagina 40
... Lord- glorious old David . " The immortal verse of wandering old Homer , the blind son of Scio's isle , was the inspiration of Samian wine , and good old Noah , too , would have sung some good and merry song , from the inspiration of ...
... Lord- glorious old David . " The immortal verse of wandering old Homer , the blind son of Scio's isle , was the inspiration of Samian wine , and good old Noah , too , would have sung some good and merry song , from the inspiration of ...
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Andy Arrah asked Balnibarbi Bardell better Brick Lane called Captain Captain Cleggs captain's gig Cluppins court cried dear Deioneus devil Dick doctor door Durfy epigram exclaimed eyes fire fool Ganymede gave gentleman Gil Blas give glass hair hand head hear heard heart Heaven honor Hot Cross Bun inquired island Ixion Jove Juno jury King lady Laputa laugh legs look Lord M'Garry Ma'am master ment mind morning Murphy Murtough never night O'Grady Perker person Pickwick poet poor pretty replied round Sam Weller Samivel Sammy SAMUEL LOVER says Serjeant Buzfuz Serjeant Snubbin smile soon squire stood struldbrugs sure tell there's Thessaly thing thou thought tion Titmouse told took turned Wardle Weller wery wick wife window Winkle woman word young
Populaire passages
Pagina 190 - An ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.
Pagina 370 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Pagina 361 - I cannot eat but little meat, My stomach is not good ; But sure I think, that I can drink With him that wears a hood : Though I go bare, take ye no care ; I nothing am a-cold : I stuff my skin so full within Of jolly good ale and old.
Pagina 367 - Gul in her bloom; Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale never is mute: Where the tints of the earth, and the hues of the sky, In color though varied, in beauty may vie...
Pagina 98 - An expedient was therefore offered, that since words are only names for things, it would be more convenient for all men to carry about them such things as were necessary to express the particular business they are to discourse on.
Pagina 82 - To Dr. Jonathan Swift, the most agreeable companion, the truest friend, and the -greatest genius of his age.
Pagina 32 - The night drave on wi' sangs and clatter; And ay the ale was growing better: The landlady and Tam grew gracious, Wi' favours, secret, sweet, and precious: The souter tauld his queerest stories; The landlord's laugh was ready chorus: The storm without might rair and rustle, Tam did na mind the storm a whistle. Care, mad to see a man sae happy, E'en drown'd himsel amang the nappy: As bees flee hame wi' lades o' treasure, The minutes wing'd their way wi' pleasure; Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious,...
Pagina 297 - Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgra.be. "Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!" He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long time the manxome foe he sought — So rested he by the Tumtum tree, And stood awhile in thought. And as in uffish thought he stood, The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, Came whiffling through the tulgey...
Pagina 32 - Nick, in shape o' beast ; A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge : He screw'd the pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a1 did dirl.
Pagina 280 - Why is Mrs. Bardell so earnestly entreated not to agitate herself about this warming-pan, unless (as is no doubt the case) it is a mere cover for hidden fire — a mere substitute for some endearing word or promise, agreeably to a preconcerted system of correspondence, artfully contrived by Pickwick with a view to his contemplated desertion, and which I am not in a condition to explain?