Parodies of the Works of English & American Authors, Volumen 5Reeves & Turner, 1888 Includes parodies of Tennyson, Longfellow, Bret Harte, Thomas Hood, Swinburne, Browning, Shakespeare, Milton, Poe, Shelley, Cowper, Coleridge, Herrick, Carroll, Lever, Lover, Burns, Scott, Goldsmith, Kingsley, Byron and many others. |
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... feeling to your office led , Some crazy patriot shall inquire my fate , Ah , woe is me ! some wicked wit will tell , " Oft have we seen him , ere the evening fall , The City Box , refused by the Prince Regent , was proposed by draper ...
... feeling to your office led , Some crazy patriot shall inquire my fate , Ah , woe is me ! some wicked wit will tell , " Oft have we seen him , ere the evening fall , The City Box , refused by the Prince Regent , was proposed by draper ...
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... feel its sharpest sting ; " Great his transgressions , and but small his hope ; " He'll give the Sheriff ( all he'll have ) a ring , " And gain from Justice , all he fear'd - a rope ! " No farther seek his vices to disclose , " But ...
... feel its sharpest sting ; " Great his transgressions , and but small his hope ; " He'll give the Sheriff ( all he'll have ) a ring , " And gain from Justice , all he fear'd - a rope ! " No farther seek his vices to disclose , " But ...
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... feeling can achieve , Await alike the inevitable hour , The rage for gaming leads us all to thieve . Nor scorn , ye rulers of the states ' finance , The prompt expedients of these pilfering scenes , Where thro ' the aid of rapine they ...
... feeling can achieve , Await alike the inevitable hour , The rage for gaming leads us all to thieve . Nor scorn , ye rulers of the states ' finance , The prompt expedients of these pilfering scenes , Where thro ' the aid of rapine they ...
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... feel ) , He waits the benefit of the INSOLVENT ACT . From Pierce Egan's Book of Sports . 1832 . : 0 : - DRY GOODS : AN ELEGY . A Manchester Parody . THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day , The trading herd wind slowly to their tea ...
... feel ) , He waits the benefit of the INSOLVENT ACT . From Pierce Egan's Book of Sports . 1832 . : 0 : - DRY GOODS : AN ELEGY . A Manchester Parody . THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day , The trading herd wind slowly to their tea ...
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... feels the moaning light , And jelly sparkles in the glistening moulds . There on the jagged shells ' neath beauty's shade , Where melancholy watch the mole doth keep , Each in his waistcoat straight for ever laid , The well - bred ...
... feels the moaning light , And jelly sparkles in the glistening moulds . There on the jagged shells ' neath beauty's shade , Where melancholy watch the mole doth keep , Each in his waistcoat straight for ever laid , The well - bred ...
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ancient beautiful bell beneath Bill blow boys brave breast breath burlesque Christabel cried crowd dear Deborah Lee Devil door e'en e'er ELEGY eyes face fair fame fate fear fight fire Gilpin hand hath head hear heard heart hour imitation Ingoldsby Legends John Gilpin lady laugh leave London look Lord Lord Byron morn ne'er never night O'Brine o'er once parody passed Peter Bell play poem poet poor Punch quoth Rejected Addresses rose round Save seen sigh sight sing sleep smile song sorrow soul spake stood street sweet swells swore tears tell thee There's things THOMAS GRAY thou thought thro Tory town Twas verses omitted voice W. M. THACKERAY Walt Whitman weary WILLIAM WORDSWORTH wind Wordsworth written Yankee Yankee doodle dandy youth
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Página 97 - SHE was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and way-lay.
Página 234 - Over earth and ocean, with gentle motion, This pilot is guiding me, Lured by the love of the genii that move In the depths of the purple sea ; Over the rills, and the crags, and the hills, Over the lakes and the plains, Wherever he dream, under mountain or stream, The Spirit he loves remains ; And I all the while bask in heaven's blue smile, Whilst he is dissolving in rains.
Página 107 - The sun came up upon the left, Out of the sea came he ! And he shone bright, and on the right Went down into the sea. Higher and higher every day, Till over the mast at noon " — The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast, For he heard the loud bassoon.
Página 254 - Now in building of chaises, I tell you what, There is always somewhere a weakest spot, — In hub, tire, felloe, in spring or thill, In panel, or crossbar, or floor, or sill, In screw, bolt, thoroughbrace, — lurking still, Find it somewhere you must and will, — Above or below, or within or without, — And that's the reason, beyond a doubt, A chaise breaks down, but doesn't wear out. But the Deacon swore (as Deacons do, With an "I dew vum...
Página 210 - Go, lovely Rose! Tell her, that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts, where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died.
Página 234 - I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun.
Página 51 - Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high, To bitter Scorn a sacrifice And grinning Infamy. The stings of Falsehood those shall try, And hard Unkindness...
Página 107 - With sloping masts and dipping prow, As who pursued with yell and blow Still treads the shadow of his foe, And forward bends his head, The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, And southward aye we fled.
Página 313 - Her buskins gemmed with morning dew, Blew an inspiring air, that dale and thicket rung, The hunter's call to Faun and Dryad known ! The oak-crowned Sisters and their chaste-eyed Queen Satyrs and Sylvan Boys were seen Peeping from forth their alleys green : Brown Exercise rejoiced to hear ; And Sport leaped up, and seized his beechen spear.
Página 124 - I played a soft and doleful air, I sang an old and moving story — An old rude song, that suited well That ruin wild and hoary. She listened with a flitting blush, With downcast eyes and modest grace; For well she knew I could not choose But gaze upon her face.