The Parlour Portfolio, Or, Post-chaise Companion: Being a Selection of the Most Amusing and Interesting Articles and Anecdotes that Have Appeared in the Magazines, Newspapers, and Other Daily and Periodical Journals, from the Year 1700, to the Present Time, Том 1Matthew Iley, and sold, 1820 |
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... side to drink . I should be glad to spend an evening with half a dozen gentlemen of this uncommon genius , for I am certain they would improve upon one another , and thereby , I might have an opportunity of observing how far the ...
... side to drink . I should be glad to spend an evening with half a dozen gentlemen of this uncommon genius , for I am certain they would improve upon one another , and thereby , I might have an opportunity of observing how far the ...
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... side to side he springs , he spurns , And bangs his foes and friends by turns . Thus as in giddy freaks he bounces , Crack goes the twig , and in he flounces : Down the swift stream the wretch is born , Never - Ah never to return ! ds ...
... side to side he springs , he spurns , And bangs his foes and friends by turns . Thus as in giddy freaks he bounces , Crack goes the twig , and in he flounces : Down the swift stream the wretch is born , Never - Ah never to return ! ds ...
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... side next attracted our eyes ; and when Tom told me it was built by Oliver Omnium , the stock- broker , we laughed at the bubbles with whose gold it had been erected . Nothing more material happened till we arrived in London ; and what ...
... side next attracted our eyes ; and when Tom told me it was built by Oliver Omnium , the stock- broker , we laughed at the bubbles with whose gold it had been erected . Nothing more material happened till we arrived in London ; and what ...
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... side of the Tomb . Why should my fancy any one offend , Whose good or ill on it does not depend ? ' Tis at my own expence : except the land ( A gen'rous grant ! ) on which my tomb doth stand . This is the only spot that I have chose ...
... side of the Tomb . Why should my fancy any one offend , Whose good or ill on it does not depend ? ' Tis at my own expence : except the land ( A gen'rous grant ! ) on which my tomb doth stand . This is the only spot that I have chose ...
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... side lying stretched on the floor . Alarmed by what he saw , he called to Montgomery , and they broke open the door , when they found the mother and the son dead , and the other two nearly so . They carried out the former , but in doing ...
... side lying stretched on the floor . Alarmed by what he saw , he called to Montgomery , and they broke open the door , when they found the mother and the son dead , and the other two nearly so . They carried out the former , but in doing ...
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Страница 308 - Up flew the windows all, And every soul cried out, Well done ! As loud as he could bawl. Away went Gilpin— who but he ; His fame soon spread around — He carries weight, he rides a race, 'Tis for a thousand pound.
Страница 308 - 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!
Страница 304 - 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. My sister, and my sister's child, Myself, and children three, Will fill the chaise ; so you must ride On horseback after we.
Страница 305 - So three doors off the chaise was stayed, where they did all get in; Six precious souls, and all agog to dash through thick and thin.
Страница 410 - Yet, oh yet, thyself deceive not; Love may sink by slow decay, But by sudden wrench, believe not Hearts can thus be torn away: Still thine own its life retaineth, Still must mine, though bleeding, beat ; And the undying thought which paineth Is — that we no more may meet.
Страница 311 - Ah luckless speech, and bootless boast! For which he paid full dear; For, while he spake, a braying ass Did sing most loud and clear; Whereat his horse did snort, as he Had heard a lion roar, And gallop'd off with all his might, As he had done before.
Страница 306 - John he cried, But John he cried in vain; That trot became a gallop soon, In spite of curb and rein.
Страница 312 - Stop thief! stop thief! — a highwayman! Not one of them was mute; And all and each that passed that way Did join in the pursuit. And now the turnpike gates again Flew open in short space; The toll-men thinking as before That Gilpin rode a race. And so he did, and won it too, For he got first to town ; Nor stopped till where he had got up He did again get down. Now let us sing, long live the king...
Страница 231 - was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own ; only he had a farm of three or four pounds by the year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep, and my mother milked thirty kine...
Страница 159 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...