The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature of All Times and Nations, Zväzok 4Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley Gebbie Publishing Company, Limited, 1894 |
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Strana 21
... took him to a house I'd known before , Where was a window on the second floor ; The lattice shutter by good luck stood ope ; To this along the wall we slily crope ; And , being never barren in expedients , I prayed mine Uncle he would ...
... took him to a house I'd known before , Where was a window on the second floor ; The lattice shutter by good luck stood ope ; To this along the wall we slily crope ; And , being never barren in expedients , I prayed mine Uncle he would ...
Strana 31
... took heart and spake out undis may'd : " To lie now were most criminal , no doubt ; When I should be so speedily found out . " Thus the sly Knave the Royal pardon won , Both for his Father's treason and his own . Freed from the gallows ...
... took heart and spake out undis may'd : " To lie now were most criminal , no doubt ; When I should be so speedily found out . " Thus the sly Knave the Royal pardon won , Both for his Father's treason and his own . Freed from the gallows ...
Strana 36
... took his way : And those who , to their shame , and Reynard's pride , His progress had some way accompanied , Now took their leave and hastened to de- part . Meanwhile the Rogue so well had plied his art , Insisting on the blessings of ...
... took his way : And those who , to their shame , and Reynard's pride , His progress had some way accompanied , Now took their leave and hastened to de- part . Meanwhile the Rogue so well had plied his art , Insisting on the blessings of ...
Strana 41
... took the pardon at the proffered price , Bellyn the Simple fell a sacrifice : Then we will hunt the Fox through all the And all his Kindred suffered too with him , land , Victims to the fierce Clan of Isegrim . And kill him , —if we ...
... took the pardon at the proffered price , Bellyn the Simple fell a sacrifice : Then we will hunt the Fox through all the And all his Kindred suffered too with him , land , Victims to the fierce Clan of Isegrim . And kill him , —if we ...
Strana 48
... Took duly my degrees and honors too ; ' I swear I quite forget how much I knew : All one learns there is wondrously abstruse , " Though not , perhaps , in practice of much use . ' I'll go and the inscription read at once , 6 To prove ...
... Took duly my degrees and honors too ; ' I swear I quite forget how much I knew : All one learns there is wondrously abstruse , " Though not , perhaps , in practice of much use . ' I'll go and the inscription read at once , 6 To prove ...
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Strana 339 - Hahnsum kerridge' they called it then. Eighteen hundred and twenty came ; Running as usual ; much the same. Thirty and forty at last arrive, And then come fifty, and FIFTY-FIVE. Little of all we value here Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year Without both feeling and looking queer, In fact, there's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth.
Strana 295 - John, he cried, But John he cried in vain ; That trot became a gallop soon, In spite of curb and rein.
Strana 297 - And thus unto the youth she said That drove them to the Bell, "This shall be yours when you bring back My husband safe and well." The youth did ride, and soon did meet John coming back amain, Whom in a trice he tried to stop By catching at his rein. • But not performing what he meant, And gladly would have done, The frighted steed he frighted more, And made him faster run. Away went Gilpin, and away Went post-boy at his heels, The post-boy's horse right glad to miss The lumbering of the wheels.
Strana 338 - He would build one shay to beat the taown 'n' the keounty 'n' all the kentry raoun' ; It should be so built that it couldn' break daown . — " Fur," said the Deacon, " 't's mighty plain Thut the weakes' place mus' stan the strain ; 'n' the way t' fix it, uz I maintain, Is only jest T" make that place uz strong uz the rest.
Strana 295 - Now Mistress Gilpin (careful soul) Had two stone bottles found, To hold the liquor that she loved, And keep it safe and sound. Each bottle had a curling ear, Through which the belt he drew, And hung a bottle on each side, To make his balance true. Then over all, that he might be Equipp'd from top to toe, His long red cloak, well brush'd and neat, He manfully did throw.
Strana 294 - JOHN GILPIN was a citizen Of credit and renown, A trainband captain eke was he Of famous London town. John Gilpin's spouse said to her dear, Though wedded we have been These twice ten tedious years, yet we No holiday have seen. To-morrow is our wedding day, And we will then repair Unto the Bell at Edmonton All in a chaise and pair.
Strana 338 - That couldn't be split nor bent nor broke, — That was for spokes and floor and sills; He sent for lancewood to make the thills, The cross-bars were ash, from the straightest trees, The panels of white-wood, that cuts like cheese, But lasts like iron for things like these; The hubs of logs from the "Settler's ellum...
Strana 338 - ... em, Never an axe had seen their chips, And the wedges flew from between their lips, Their blunt ends frizzled like celery-tips; Step and prop-iron, bolt and screw, Spring, tire, axle, and linchpin too, Steel of the finest, bright and blue; 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.
Strana 339 - And the back-crossbar as strong as the fore, And spring and axle and hub encore. And yet, as a whole, it is past a doubt In another hour it will be worn out ! First of November, 'Fifty-five ! This morning the parson takes a drive.
Strana 296 - 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, "So am I!