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... Dear ! .. William Maginn The Irish Schoolmaster Reflections on Cleopathera's The Origin of Ireland As to the Weather The Twins He and She The Kiss The Courtin ' Hiram Hover Blow Me Eyes ! First Love II : THE ETERNAL FEMININE What Is a ...
... Dear ! .. William Maginn The Irish Schoolmaster Reflections on Cleopathera's The Origin of Ireland As to the Weather The Twins He and She The Kiss The Courtin ' Hiram Hover Blow Me Eyes ! First Love II : THE ETERNAL FEMININE What Is a ...
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... Dear Grandpapa More Walks Indifference Madame Sans Souci A Riddle If Gelett Burgess Unknown . Oliver Herford . Julian Street and James Montgomery Flagg Eugene F. Ware Dr. Samuel G. Bushnell Dean Jones Sir Walter Scott Samuel Johnson ...
... Dear Grandpapa More Walks Indifference Madame Sans Souci A Riddle If Gelett Burgess Unknown . Oliver Herford . Julian Street and James Montgomery Flagg Eugene F. Ware Dr. Samuel G. Bushnell Dean Jones Sir Walter Scott Samuel Johnson ...
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... dear . " Smiles that thrill from any distance Shed upon me while I sing ! Please ecstaticize existence , Love me , oh , thou fairy thing ! " Words like these , outpouring sadly , You'd perpetually hear , If I loved you fondly , madly ...
... dear . " Smiles that thrill from any distance Shed upon me while I sing ! Please ecstaticize existence , Love me , oh , thou fairy thing ! " Words like these , outpouring sadly , You'd perpetually hear , If I loved you fondly , madly ...
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... Dear lord from England stays . While sitting quite forlorn in That tower , she spies returning A page clad in deep mourning , With fainting steps and slow . " O page , prithee , come faster ! What news do you bring of your master ? I ...
... Dear lord from England stays . While sitting quite forlorn in That tower , she spies returning A page clad in deep mourning , With fainting steps and slow . " O page , prithee , come faster ! What news do you bring of your master ? I ...
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... dear young friend , whose shining wit Sets all the room a - blaze , Don't think yourself " a happy dog , " For all your merry ways ; But learn to wear a sober phiz , Be stupid , if you can , It's such a very serious thing To be a funny ...
... dear young friend , whose shining wit Sets all the room a - blaze , Don't think yourself " a happy dog , " For all your merry ways ; But learn to wear a sober phiz , Be stupid , if you can , It's such a very serious thing To be a funny ...
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Page 568 - Until he came unto the Wash Of Edmonton so gay ; And there he threw the Wash about, On both sides of the way, Just like unto a trundling mop, Or a wild goose at play. At Edmonton, his loving wife From the balcony spied Her tender husband, wondering much To see how he did ride. " Stop, stop, John Gilpin ! — Here's the house !' They all at once did cry ; " The dinner waits, and we are tired :" — Said Gilpin—
Page 383 - That never a hall such a galliard did grace ; While her mother did fret, and her father did fume, And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume ; And the bride-maidens whispered, "Twere better by far To have matched our fair cousin with young Lochinvar.
Page 583 - At half past nine by the meet'n'-house clock,— Just the hour of the Earthquake shock! —What do you think the parson found, When he got up and stared around? The poor old chaise in a heap or mound, As if it had been to the mill and ground! You see, of course, if you're not a dunce, How it went to pieces all at once,— All at once, and nothing first,— Just as bubbles do when they burst.
Page 485 - You are old, father William" the young man said, " And your hair has become very white; And yet you incessantly stand on your head — Do you think, at your age, it is right ? " "In my youth," father William replied to his son, " I feared it might injure the brain; But now that I'm perfectly sure I have none, Why, I do it again and again.
Page 688 - Body of turkey, head of owl, Wings a-droop like a rained-on fowl, Feathered and ruffled in every part, Skipper Ireson stood in the cart. Scores of women, old and young, Strong of muscle, and glib of tongue, Pushed and pulled up the rocky lane, Shouting and singing the shrill refrain: "Here's Flud Oirson, fur his horrd horrt Torr'd an' futherr'd an' corr'd in a corrt By the women o...
Page 580 - Now in building of chaises, I tell you what, There is always somewhere a weakest spot, In hub, tire, felloe, in spring, or thill, In panel, or crossbar, or floor, or sill, In screw, bolt, thoroughbrace — lurking still...
Page 581 - Thoroughbrace bison-skin, thick and wide; Boot, top, dasher, from tough old hide Found in the pit when the tanner died. That was the way he 'put her through.
Page 567 - The wind did blow, the cloak did fly, Like streamer long and gay, Till loop and button failing both, At last it flew away. Then might all people well discern The bottles he had slung; A bottle swinging at each side, As hath been said or sung. The dogs did bark, the children screamed, Up flew the windows all; And every soul cried out, "Well done!
Page 869 - 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 wood. And burbled as it came!
Page 565 - I do admire Of womankind but one, And you are she, my dearest dear, Therefore it shall be done. " I am a linen-draper bold, As all the world doth know, And my good friend the Calender Will lend his horse to go.