The Poetry of American Wit and HumorL. C. Page, 1899 - 367 стор. |
З цієї книги
Результати 1-5 із 19
Сторінка 17
... rest , Greatly changed in their appearance and most ele- gantly dressed . Any fowl with change of feathers may a brilliant bird become : Oh , how hard is life for many ! oh , how sweet it is for some ! CHARLES GODFREY LELAND . The Music ...
... rest , Greatly changed in their appearance and most ele- gantly dressed . Any fowl with change of feathers may a brilliant bird become : Oh , how hard is life for many ! oh , how sweet it is for some ! CHARLES GODFREY LELAND . The Music ...
Сторінка 38
... rest , Sufficient to fill the largest - sized chest , Which did not appear on the ship's manifest , But for which the ladies themselves manifested Such particular interest that they invested Their own proper persons in layers and rows ...
... rest , Sufficient to fill the largest - sized chest , Which did not appear on the ship's manifest , But for which the ladies themselves manifested Such particular interest that they invested Their own proper persons in layers and rows ...
Сторінка 40
... rest in the shade , by the gracious bestowal On myself , after twenty or thirty rejections , Of those fossil remains which she called her " affec- tions , " And that rather decayed but well - known work of art , Which Miss Flora ...
... rest in the shade , by the gracious bestowal On myself , after twenty or thirty rejections , Of those fossil remains which she called her " affec- tions , " And that rather decayed but well - known work of art , Which Miss Flora ...
Сторінка 46
... rest of his days , On the whole do you think he would have much to spare If he married a woman with nothing to wear ? WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER . The Elf - child . LITTLE Orphant Annie's come to 46 AMERICAN WIT AND HUMOR .
... rest of his days , On the whole do you think he would have much to spare If he married a woman with nothing to wear ? WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER . The Elf - child . LITTLE Orphant Annie's come to 46 AMERICAN WIT AND HUMOR .
Сторінка 101
... rest Forever in the nest ! " Said the Hen , " I cannot fly , I have no wish to try , 99 But I joy to see my mate careering through the sky ! They wed , and cried , " Ah , this is Love , my own ! " And the Hen sat , the Eagle soared ...
... rest Forever in the nest ! " Said the Hen , " I cannot fly , I have no wish to try , 99 But I joy to see my mate careering through the sky ! They wed , and cried , " Ah , this is Love , my own ! " And the Hen sat , the Eagle soared ...
Інші видання - Показати все
POETRY OF AMER WIT & HUMOR SEL Frederic Lawrence 1869-1905 Knowles Попередній перегляд недоступний - 2016 |
Загальні терміни та фрази
agin ain't ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE boys Bret Harte brown bwave called Century Magazine CHARLES FOLLEN ADAMS CHARLES GODFREY LELAND coom Coryphodon cried Deacon dear dhose dink dot baby Eohippus eyes feller Flies flosserfize folks gife girls goin guess gwine hair hand head heart heerd HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL Huldah IRWIN RUSSELL JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL JOHN GODFREY SAXE kiss Knittin lady laugh leedle Little Fly Little mamma look lookin married mighty Miss Lucy morning Nevah never night nose o'er oldt once one-hoss shay oudt parson pray Robinson he Sez round SAM WALTER FOSS sech shoost shust sighed sing smile stockin sweet tell thar THEODORE TILTON There's thet thet's things thought Twas Uncle Sammy vrom wear whar Yawcob Strauss young
Популярні уривки
Сторінка 250 - THE mountain and the squirrel Had a quarrel ; And the former called the latter ' Little Prig '. Bun replied, ' You are doubtless very big ; But all sorts of things and weather Must be taken in together, To make up a year And a sphere. And I think it no disgrace 10 To occupy my place.
Сторінка vii - Which is why I remark, And my language is plain, That for ways that are dark, And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar — Which the same I am free to maintain.
Сторінка 126 - To see my Ma? She's sprinklin' clo'es Agin to-morrer's i'nin'." To say why gals acts so or so, Or don't 'ould be persumin'; Mebby to mean yes an' say no Comes nateral to women. He stood a spell on one foot fust, Then stood a spell on t'other, An' on which one he felt the wust He couldn't ha
Сторінка 329 - WHEN I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes.
Сторінка 159 - The parson was working his Sunday's text, Had got to fifthly, and stopped perplexed At what the -Moses - was coming next. All at once the horse stood still, Close by the meet'n'-house on the hill First a shiver, and then a thrill, Then something decidedly like a spill.
Сторінка 235 - B. is a sensible man ; He stays to his home an' looks arter his folks ; He draws his furrer ez straight ez he can, An' into nobody's tater-patch pokes ; But John P. Robinson he Sez he wunt vote fer Guvener B. My ! ain't it terrible ? Wut shall we du ? We can't never choose him o...
Сторінка 155 - HAVE you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay, That was built in such a logical way It ran a hundred years to a day...
Сторінка 78 - MY AUNT. MY aunt ! my dear unmarried aunt ! Long years have o'er her flown ; Yet still she strains the aching clasp That binds her virgin zone ; I know it hurts her, — though she looks As cheerful as she can ; Her waist is ampler than her life, For life is but a span.
Сторінка 157 - Last of its timber— they couldn't sell '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.
Сторінка 20 - WHO stuffed that white owl?" No one spoke in the shop: The barber was busy, and he couldn't stop; The customers, waiting their turns, were all reading The Daily, the Herald, the Post, little heeding The young man who blurted out such a blunt question; Not one raised a head, or even made a suggestion; And the barber kept on shaving. "Don't you see, Mister Brown...