Reader! Walk Up at Once (it Will Soon be Too Late) and Buy at a Perfectly Ruinous Rate A Fable for Critics: Or, Better, (I Like, as a Thing that the Reader's First Fancy May Strike, an Old-fashioned Title-page Such as Presents a Tabular View of the Volume's Contents) a Glance at a Few of Our Literary Progenies :(Mrs. Malaprop's Word) from the Tub of Diogenes : a Vocal and Musical Medley, that Is, a Series of JokesPutnam, 1848 - 78 страница |
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... don't be absurd , he's an excellent Bryant ; But , my friends , you'll endanger the life of your client , By attempting to stretch him up into a giant : If you choose to compare him , I think there are two per- -sons fit for a parallel ...
... don't be absurd , he's an excellent Bryant ; But , my friends , you'll endanger the life of your client , By attempting to stretch him up into a giant : If you choose to compare him , I think there are two per- -sons fit for a parallel ...
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... don't prick up your ears , I would rank you and Bryant as peers ; If I call him an iceberg , I don't mean to say There is nothing in that which is grand , in its way ; He is almost the one of your poets that knows How much grace ...
... don't prick up your ears , I would rank you and Bryant as peers ; If I call him an iceberg , I don't mean to say There is nothing in that which is grand , in its way ; He is almost the one of your poets that knows How much grace ...
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... don't vary , All sappy as maples and flat as a prairie . When a character's wanted , he goes to the task As a cooper would do in composing a cask ; He picks out the staves , of their qualities heedful , Just hoops them together as tight ...
... don't vary , All sappy as maples and flat as a prairie . When a character's wanted , he goes to the task As a cooper would do in composing a cask ; He picks out the staves , of their qualities heedful , Just hoops them together as tight ...
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