The Works of Peter Pindar, Esq. With a Copious Index, Volume 1Walker and Edwards, 1816 |
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Página 389 - MY HEART is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
Página 105 - This rascal stole the razors, I suppose. " No matter if the fellow be a knave, Provided that the razors shave ; It certainly will be a monstrous prize.
Página 106 - I'm not a knave; As for the razors you have bought, Upon my soul, I never thought That they would shave." "Not think they'd shave!" quoth Hodge, with wondering eyes, And voice not much unlike an Indian yell; "What were they made for, then, you dog?" he cries. "Made," quoth the fellow, with a smile — "to sell.
Página 110 - A nostrum famous in old popish times For purifying souls that stunk with crimes, A sort of apostolic salt, That popish parsons for its powers exalt, For keeping souls of sinners sweet, Just as our kitchen salt keeps meat.
Página 105 - So home the clown, with his good fortune, went, Smiling, in heart and soul content, And quickly soaped himself to ears and eyes. Being well lathered from a dish or tub, Hodge now began with grinning pain to grub, Just like a hedger cutting furze; 'Twas a vile razor ! — then the rest he tried, — All were impostors. "Ah!
Página 323 - Then, taking up a dumpling in his hand, His eyes with admiration did expand, And oft did Majesty the dumpling grapple: "Tis monstrous, monstrous hard indeed,' he cried: 'What makes it, pray, so hard?' — The dame replied, Low curtseying, 'Please your Majesty, the apple.
Página 323 - Please your Majesty, the Apple.' — 'Very astonishing indeed! strange thing!' (Turning the Dumpling round, rejoined the King). ' 'Tis most extraordinary then, all this is; It beats Pinetti's conjuring all to pieces: Strange I should never of a Dumpling dream ! But, Goody, tell me where, where, where's the Seam?' 'Sir, there's no Seam,' quoth she; 'I never knew That folks did Apple-dumplings sew.
Página 18 - AND now, O Muse, with song so big, Turn round to Gainsborough's Girl and Pig, Or Pig and Girl I rather should have said : The Pig in white, I must allow, Is really a well-painted Sow ; I wish to say the same thing of the Maid.
Página 344 - Whitbread made ; Poor gentleman, most terribly afraid He should not charm enough his Guests divine: He gave his Maids new aprons, gowns, and smocks ; And, lo ! two hundred pounds were spent in frocks, To make th' Apprentices and Draymen fine.
Página 242 - tis anecdotes like these, That bring thee glory, and the million please ! On these, shall future times delighted stare, Thou charming haberdasher of small ware ! Stewart and Robertson from thee shall learn The simple charms of history to discern : To thee, fair history's palm shall Livy yield, And Tacitus, to Bozzy leave the field ! Joe Miller's self, whose page such fun provokes, Shall quit his shroud, to grin at Bozzy's jokes ! How are we all with rapture touch'd, to see Where, when, and at what...