Studies in Jocular Literature: A Popular Subject More Closely Considered

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E. Stock, 1890 - 230 páginas
 

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Página 65 - ... rusticus expectat, dum defluat amnis: at ille labitur et labetur in omne volubilis aevum.
Página 102 - The man in the wilderness, Asked me, How many strawberries Grew in the sea? I answered him as I thought good, As many red herrings As grew in the wood.
Página 78 - I think I shall be of you.' When Sir Joshua mentioned this to Dr. Johnson, he was much displeased with the actor's conceit. 'He'll be of us, (said Johnson) how does he know we will permit him ? The first Duke in England has no right to hold such language.
Página 58 - The robbers expected, from the extraordinary resistYU ance they had experienced, to lay their hands on some rich booty ; but were not a little surprised to discover, that the whole treasure which the sturdy Caledonian had been defending at the hazard of his life, consisted of no more than a crooked sixpence 1
Página 68 - JONSON very gladly agreed, and went at the time appointed, called for a bottle of claret and drank to the vintner, praising the wine at a great rate. Says the vintner : ' This is not our business. Mr. JONSON, answer me my four questions ; or else you must pay me my money or go to jail.
Página 40 - This life a theatre we well may call, Where every actor must perform with art ; Or laugh it through, and make a farce of all, Or learn to bear with grace his tragic part.
Página 96 - THREE wise men of Gotham, Went to sea in a bowl : And if the bowl had been stronger, My song would have been longer.
Página 12 - A jest's prosperity lies in the ear • Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it : then, if sickly ears, Deaf 'd with the clamours of their own dear groans.
Página 69 - For Jillian of Berry, she dwells on a hill, And she hath good Beer and Ale to sell, And of good fellows she thinks no ill, And thither will we go now, now, now, and thither Will we go now.
Página 82 - In a village of Picardy, after a long sickness, a farmer's wife fell into a lethargy. Her husband was willing, good man, to believe her out of pain; and so, according to the custom of that country, she was wrapped in a sheet and carried out to be buried. But, as ill luck would have it, the bearers carried her so near a hedge, that the thorns pierced the sheet and waked the woman from her trance.

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