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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... thought , would do nicely for P .; But he turned up his nose at their mumming and shamming , And cared ( shall I say ? ) not a d— for their damming ; So they first read him out of their Church , and next minute Turned round and declared ...
... thought , would do nicely for P .; But he turned up his nose at their mumming and shamming , And cared ( shall I say ? ) not a d— for their damming ; So they first read him out of their Church , and next minute Turned round and declared ...
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... thought's modest fulness by going too far ; " Twould be well if your authors should all make a trial Of what virtue there is in severe self - denial , And measure their writings by Hesiod's staff , Which teaches that all has less value ...
... thought's modest fulness by going too far ; " Twould be well if your authors should all make a trial Of what virtue there is in severe self - denial , And measure their writings by Hesiod's staff , Which teaches that all has less value ...
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... thought on't nor mentioned it either , Ten poets , the greatest who ever wrote rhyme , Two hundred and forty first men of their time , One person whose portrait just gave the least hint Its original had a most horrible squint , One ...
... thought on't nor mentioned it either , Ten poets , the greatest who ever wrote rhyme , Two hundred and forty first men of their time , One person whose portrait just gave the least hint Its original had a most horrible squint , One ...
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