Such Nonsense!: An AnthologyGeorge H. Doran Company, 1918 - 233 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
Ain't it awful anapestic ballad beautiful black crow blue called captain's gig Charming cleaned cried Cubist dear Dong doth dream EDWARD LEAR eggs Emeu Esaw eyes fair fear flamingo Foolkiller Fred and Eustace gaze GELETT BURGESS Gentle Jane girl green hair hand head heard heart HILAIRE BELLOC J. K. STEPHEN Jou-jou Jumbly kiss knew lady lilies little bug Little Katy lived looked Mahdah maid Mamma McClan merry morning mother never nice night nose o'er once Peter poet Pray pretty Pumpkin Pumpkin Eater Purple Cow rhyme round sailed Sainte Margérie Sally Brown Sassenach saw wood sing smile song soul sweet tail tell thee There's things THOMAS HOOD thou thought told took tree turtle Twas verse W. S. GILBERT wife Willie wonder Wood would saw wood-saw Wood saw young
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Página 90 - But hail thou Goddess, sage and holy, Hail divinest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue; Black, but such as in esteem Prince...
Página 212 - The bride kissed the goblet : the knight took it up, He quaffed off the wine, and he threw down the cup. She looked down to blush, and she looked up to sigh, With a smile on her lips and a tear in her eye. He took her soft hand, ere her mother could bar, 'Now tread we a measure !
Página 212 - One touch to her hand, and one word in her ear, When they reached the hall door, and the charger stood near; So light to the croupe the fair lady he swung, So light to the saddle before her he sprung ! — "She is won ! we are gone, over bank, bush, and scaur ! They'll have fleet steeds that follow !
Página 45 - There was me and the cook and the captain bold, And the mate of the Nancy brig, And the bo'sun tight and a midshipmite, And the crew of the captain's gig.
Página 212 - River where ford there was none; But, ere he alighted at Nethe'rby gate, The bride had consented, the gallant came late: For. a laggard in love and a dastard in war Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar.
Página 161 - Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live: Their heads are green, and their hands are blue; And they went to sea in a sieve.
Página 44 - Oh, I am a cook, and a captain bold, And the mate of the Nancy brig, And a bo'sun tight, and a midshipmite, And the crew of the captain's gig...
Página 86 - IT was a tall young oysterman lived by the river-side, His shop was just upon the bank, his boat was on the tide ; The daughter of a fisherman, that was so straight and slim, Lived over on the other bank, right opposite to him. It was the pensive oysterman that saw a lovely maid, Upon a moonlight evening, a-sitting in the shade : He saw her wave her handkerchief, as much as if to say, "I'm wide awake, young oysterman, and all the folks away.
Página 45 - Come here,' says he, with a proper pride, Which his smiling features tell, ' 'Twill soothing be if I let you see How extremely nice you'll smell.' "And he stirred it round and round and round, And he sniffed at the foaming froth; When I ups with his heels, and smothers his squeals In the scum of the boiling broth. "And...
Página 44 - I am a cook and a captain bold, And the mate of the Nancy brig, And a bo'sun tight, and a midshipmite, And the crew of the captain's gig.' And he shook his fists and he tore his hair, Till I really felt afraid, For I couldn't help thinking the man had been drinking, And so I simply said...