 You are old,' said the youth, 'and your jaws are too weak For anything tougher than suet; Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak - Pray how did you manage to do it?  The Literary World - Página 231870Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - 1893 - 340 páginas
...Eloquence rife ; And so in an age of mere Brummagem ' jaw ' I can still hold my own in the strife." " You are old," said the youth ; "one would hardly suppose That your eye was as steady as ever ; Yetyou balance that eel on the end of your nose — What makes you so awfully clever ?." " You are... | |
 | Charles Lutwidge Dodgson - 1869 - 222 páginas
...finished the goose, with the bones and the beak : Fray, how did you manage to do it . " "In my youth" said his father, " I took to the law, And argued each case...it gave to my jaw, Has lasted the rest of my life." 5 " You are old," said the youth ; one would hardly suppose That your eye was as steady as ever ; Yet... | |
 | Lewis Carroll - 1869 - 212 páginas
...finished the goose, with the bones and the beak: Pray, how did you manage to do it 9" "In my youth," said his father, " I took to the law, And argued each case...it gave to my jaw, Has lasted the rest of my life." ADVICE FROM A "You are old" said the youth; one would hardly suppose That your eye was as steady as... | |
 | 1877 - 672 páginas
...the bones and the beak — Pray, how did you manage to do it ?" " In my youth," said his father, u I took to the law, And argued each case with my wife ; And the muscular strength that it gave to my jaw Has lasted the rest of my life." ' Talking about parody, few have done better... | |
 | John Andrew Jennings - 1878 - 488 páginas
...the goose with the bones and the beak — Pray, how did you manage to do it ? " " In my youth," said his father, " I took to the law, And argued each case...suppose That your eye was as steady as ever ; Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose — What made you so awfully clever ? " " I have answered... | |
 | 1889 - 472 páginas
...you manage to do it ?'' '•In my youth," said his father, "I took to the law, And argued each cafe with my wife; And the muscular strength which it gave to my jaw Has lasted the rest of my life." ld hardly suppose "You are old," paid the youth ;" one would h That your eye was as steady as ever... | |
 | George Melville Baker - 1879 - 734 páginas
...manage to do it?" j • , ,.j < . ••" .• ' ' •• • . , , ,. t . ,. , • " In my youth," said his father, " I took to the law, And argued each case with my wife ; Awl the muscular strength which it gave to my jaw, H»s (asted the rest of my Hie." " You are old,"... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - 1880 - 362 páginas
...the goose, with the bones and the beak — Pray how did you manage to do it ?' ' In my youth,' said his father, ' I took to the law, And argued each case...it gave to my jaw Has lasted the rest of my life.' Mr. Lear has written more than Mr. Carroll, but not more successfully. lake Shadwell, though in a very... | |
 | 1881 - 918 páginas
...finished the goose, with the bones and the beakPray, how do you manage to do it?" "In my youth," said his father, " I took to the law, And argued each case...And the muscular strength which it gave to my jaw lias lasted the rest of my life." Mr. Cholmondeley Pennell has also written a very ingenious imitation... | |
 | Art needlework - 1882 - 136 páginas
...the goose, with the bones and the beak — Pray, how do you manage to do it ?" " In my youth," said his father, " I took to the law, And argued each case...it gave to my jaw Has lasted the rest of my life." One of our illustrations shows the Lobster's Quadrille, the performers in the present instance being... | |
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