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I must mention again it was gorgeous weather,
Rhymes are so scarce in this world of...
I cannot sing the old songs now!
It is not that I deem them low;
'Tis that I can't remember how
They...
And this song is considered a perfect gem,
And as to the meaning, it's what you please.
Jones - (who, I'm glad to say,
Asked leave of Mrs. J. - )
Daily absorbs a clay
After his...
Yet it is better to drop thy friends,
O my daughter, than to drop thy 'H's'.
O Beer! O Hodgson, Guinness, Allsop, Bass!
Names that should be on every infant's...
Cats may have had their goose
Cooked by tobacco-juice;
Still why deny its use
Thoughtfully...
Meaning, however, is no great matter.
Source: Lovers, and a Reflection
-- C S...
Grinder, who serenely grindest
At my door the Hundredth Psalm.
Source: Lines on...
Complete with hat and gloves,
One on and one a-dangle i' my hand,
And ombrifuge (Lord love you!), case o'...
Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life.
Eugene Aram, though a thief, a liar, and a murderer,
Yet, being intellectual, was amongst the noblest of...
The heart which grief hath cankered
Hath one unfailing remedy - the
Tankard.
How they who use fusees
All grow by slow degrees
Brainless as chimpanzees,
Meagre as lizards;
Go mad, and...
Get out, you blazing ass!
Gabble o' the goose. Don't bugaboo-baby me!
Source:...
Study first Propriety: for she is indeed the Pole-star.
Source: Proverbial...
The auld wife sat at her ivied door,
(Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese)
A thing she had frequently done...
You see this pebble-stone? It's a thing I bought
Of a bit of a chit of a boy i' the mid o' the day -
I like to...
Life is with such all beer and skittles;
They are not difficult to please
About their...
Thou who, when fears attack,
Bidst them avaunt, and Black
Care, at the horseman's back
Perching,...