The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature of All Times and Nations, Volumen5Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley Gebbie & Company, 1892 |
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Página 224 - Are scatter'd, and their Mouths are stopt with Dust. Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument About it and about : but evermore Came out by the same door wherein I went. With them the seed of Wisdom did I sow, And with my own hand wrought to make it
Página 207 - With Thestylis to bind the sheaves; Or, if the earlier season lead, To the tann'd haycock in the mead. Sometimes with secure delight The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the
Página 207 - Küsset lawns, and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray ; Mountains, on whose barren breast The laboring clouds do often rest ; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide ; Towers and battlements it sees Bosomed high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighboring eyes.
Página 207 - and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek ; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his side« Come, and trip it, as you go, On the light
Página 222 - And rags, and hags, and hideous wenches, I counted two-and-seventy stenches, All well-defined and separate stinks ! Ye nymphs, that reign o'er sewers and sinks, The river Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne. But tell me, nymphs, what power divine Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine?
Página 207 - holy-day, Till the live-long daylight fail : Then to the spicy nut-brown ale, With stories told of many a feat, How faery Mab the junkets ate ; She was pinch'd, and pulled, she said; And he, by friar's lantern led, Tells how the drudging goblin sweat To earn his cream-bowl duly set,
Página 224 - spend, Before we too into the Dust descend; Dust into Dust, and under Dust, to lie, Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and—sans End! Alike for those who for TO-DAY prepare, And those that after some TO-MORROW stare, A Muezzin from the Tower of Darkness cries,
Página 207 - triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge and prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robes with
Página 207 - d shade; And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holy-day, Till the live-long daylight fail : Then to the spicy nut-brown ale, With stories told of many a feat, How faery Mab the junkets ate ; She was pinch'd, and
Página 207 - And every shepherd tells his tale, Under the hawthorn in the dale. While the landscape round it measures; Küsset lawns, and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray ; Mountains, on whose barren breast The