 And licked the soup from the cooks' own ladles, Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats....  Dramatis Personae: & Dramatic Romance & Lyrics - Страница 167написао/ла Robert Browning - 1909 - 246 страницаПуни преглед - О овој књизи
 | English poetry - 1866 - 180 страница
...Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats, By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and fiats. At last the people in a body To the Town Hall came flocking : "Tis clear," cried they, "our... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1868 - 710 страница
...Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats, By drowning their speaking With shrieking and...sharps and flats. At last the people in a body To the Town-Hall came flocking ; " 'Tis clear," cried they, " our Mayor's a noddy ; And as for our Corporation... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1868 - 712 страница
...shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats. At last the people in a body To the Town-Hall came flocking ; " 'Tis clear," cried they, " our Mayor's...a noddy ; And as for our Corporation — shocking 1 To think we buy gowns lined with ermine For dolts that can't or won't determine What's best to rid... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 страница
...open the kegs of salted sprats, 15 Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats, By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats. 20 At last the people in a body To the Town Hall came nocking : "Tis clear,' cried they, 'our Mayor's... | |
 | James Madison Watson - 1868 - 314 страница
...Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats, By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats. 8. At last the people in a body To the Town Hall came flocking : "'Tis clear," cried they, " our Mayor's... | |
 | Sabine Baring-Gould - 1868 - 432 страница
...Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoil'd the women's chats, By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats." One day, there came a man into the town, most quaintly attired in parti-coloured suit. Bunting the... | |
 | 1870 - 462 страница
...Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats, By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking At last the people in a body To the Town Hall came...cried they, ' our Mayor's a noddy ; And as for our Corporation—shocking To think we buy gowns lined with ermine 25 For dolts that can't or won't determine... | |
 | 1870 - 464 страница
...open the kegs of salted sprats, 15 Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats, By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats. 20 At last the people in a body To the Town Hall came flocking : ' 'Tis clear,' cried they, ' our Mayor's... | |
 | Adam White - 1870 - 378 страница
...Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats, By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats. » » » * * " And ere three shrill notes the pipes had uttered, You heard as if an army muttered ;... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1870 - 466 страница
...Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats, By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking At last the people in a body To the Town Hall came flocking : 1 Tis clear,' cried they, ' our Mayor's a noddy ; And as for our Corporation — shocking To think... | |
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