The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature of All Times and Nations, Том 1Gebbie Publishing Company, Limited, 1894 |
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... MICHAEL MULHOOLY : HIS ANTECEDENTS . learned to regard it as a disgrace that no member of the family of their acquaintance had ever learned to read and write . Had such a view of the case been suggested to them , they would , doubtless ...
... MICHAEL MULHOOLY : HIS ANTECEDENTS . learned to regard it as a disgrace that no member of the family of their acquaintance had ever learned to read and write . Had such a view of the case been suggested to them , they would , doubtless ...
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... Michael had industry , gery , if you please , was the school - room in which his first lessons of life were learned , and where was revealed to his young am- bition the shining ladder , like that which Jacob saw in a dream , leading up ...
... Michael had industry , gery , if you please , was the school - room in which his first lessons of life were learned , and where was revealed to his young am- bition the shining ladder , like that which Jacob saw in a dream , leading up ...
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... Michael Mulhooly did not neglect to vote at the election immediately following his naturalization . Indeed , from his own statements , made that night while celebra- ting his political second birth , so great was his fear that his vote ...
... Michael Mulhooly did not neglect to vote at the election immediately following his naturalization . Indeed , from his own statements , made that night while celebra- ting his political second birth , so great was his fear that his vote ...
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... Michael objected , and commenced to dis- cuss the constitutional questions involved with so much spirit and force that the offi- cer , overcome by his arguments , twice lay down upon the pavement , while Michael persisted in his effort ...
... Michael objected , and commenced to dis- cuss the constitutional questions involved with so much spirit and force that the offi- cer , overcome by his arguments , twice lay down upon the pavement , while Michael persisted in his effort ...
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... Michael , when , standing for the first time in front of his own bar , while the radiance of his diamond almost blinded his new bar keeper , he invited up a number of his political friends who had assembled to offer him their ...
... Michael , when , standing for the first time in front of his own bar , while the radiance of his diamond almost blinded his new bar keeper , he invited up a number of his political friends who had assembled to offer him their ...
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Страница 246 - Should I turn upon the true prince? Why, thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules. But beware instinct. The lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter. I was now a coward on instinct.
Страница 248 - Harry, I do not only marvel where thou spendest thy time, but also how thou art accompanied : for though the camomile, the more it is trodden on, the faster it grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted, the sooner it wears.
Страница 240 - I'll sup. Farewell. Poins. Farewell, my lord. {Exit POINS. P. Hen. I know you all, and will a while uphold The unyok'd humour of your idleness : Yet herein will I imitate the sun, Who doth permit the base contagious clouds To smother up his beauty from the world...
Страница 275 - King. I know thee not, old man: Fall to thy prayers ; How ill white hairs become a fool, and jester!
Страница 64 - Then Abner Dean of Angel's raised a point of order — when A chunk of old red sandstone took him in the abdomen, And he smiled a kind of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor, And the subsequent proceedings interested him no more.
Страница 381 - ... till they could all play very near, or altogether as well as myself. This done, say the enemy were forty thousand strong, we twenty would come into the field the tenth of March, or thereabouts; and we would challenge twenty of the enemy; they could not in their honor refuse us; well, we would kill them: challenge twenty more, kill them; twenty more, kill them; twenty more, kill them too...
Страница 86 - There warn't no stoves (tell comfort died) To bake ye to a puddin*. The wa'nut logs shot sparkles out Towards the pootiest, bless her, An' leetle flames danced all about The chiny on the dresser Agin the chimbley crook-necks hung, An" in amongst 'em rusted The ole queen's-arm thet gran'ther Young Fetched back from Concord busted.
Страница 217 - The Angels all were singing out of tune, And hoarse with having little else to do, Excepting to wind up the sun and moon, Or curb a runaway young star or two, Or wild colt of a comet, which too soon Broke out of bounds o'er the ethereal blue, Splitting some planet with its playful tail, As boats are sometimes by a wanton whale.
Страница 259 - Dolphin chamber, at the round table, by a sea-coal fire, upon Wednesday in Whitsun week, when the prince broke thy head for liking his father to a singing-man of Windsor ; thou didst swear to me then, as I was washing thy wound, to marry me, and make me my lady thy wife.
Страница 381 - March, or thereabouts, and we would challenge twenty of the enemy. They could not in their honour refuse us. Well, we would kill them ; challenge twenty more, kill them ; twenty more, kill them ; twenty more, kill them too ; and thus would we kill every man his twenty a day — that's twenty score; twenty score, that's two hundred; two hundred a day, five days a thousand; forty thousand; forty times five, five times forty, two hundred days kills them all up by computation. And this will I venture...