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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... live upon acorns , and hear him talk gratis ; And indeed , I believe , no man ever talked better— Each sentence hangs perfectly poised to a letter ; He seems piling words , but there's royal dust hid In the heart of each sky - piercing ...
... live upon acorns , and hear him talk gratis ; And indeed , I believe , no man ever talked better— Each sentence hangs perfectly poised to a letter ; He seems piling words , but there's royal dust hid In the heart of each sky - piercing ...
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... live Man , still supreme and erect Underneath the bemummying wrappers of sect ; There was ne'er a man born who had more of the swing Of the true lyric bard and all that kind of thing ; And his failures arise , ( though perhaps he don't ...
... live Man , still supreme and erect Underneath the bemummying wrappers of sect ; There was ne'er a man born who had more of the swing Of the true lyric bard and all that kind of thing ; And his failures arise , ( though perhaps he don't ...
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... live till men weary of Collins and Gray ; I'm not over - fond of Greek metres in English , To me rhyme ' s a gain , so it be not too jinglish , And your modern hexameter verses are no more Like Greek ones than sleek Mr Pope is like ...
... live till men weary of Collins and Gray ; I'm not over - fond of Greek metres in English , To me rhyme ' s a gain , so it be not too jinglish , And your modern hexameter verses are no more Like Greek ones than sleek Mr Pope is like ...
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American Apollo bard believe blow bore brain breeze Broadway Bull comes contrive cougar deep divine doubt e'en ears earth English FABLE FOR CRITICS fancy feel fellow fresh friends gibbet gilt extra goes grace granite grant gratis Greek half hard hast hear heart hero hexameter hunt infinite John Bull keep kind laugh letters lily look lyre Mayflower metre mind Miranda Muses nature naught ne'er Neath never North Pole o'er once phiz Phoebus poems poet pole poor praise prose PUTNAM Quaker quiet reach readers rhyme round scarce seems shudder to think Sketch slavery slender Snooks somehow sometimes song sort soul stand sure t'other talks tell there's things Thou thought true turn Twas twere twixt Twould verse volume wait who's whole wood word Wordsworth worth write written wrong Yankee zeal