American Humorists: Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution

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Chatto and Windus, 1883 - 208 páginas
 

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Página 9 - Familiar Allusions : A Handbook of Miscellaneous Information ; including the Names of Celebrated Statues, Paintings, Palaces, Country Seats, Ruins, Churches, Ships, Streets, Clubs, Natural Curiosities, and the like. By WILLIAM A. WHEELER, Author of " Noted Names of Fiction ;
Página 20 - Plutarch's Lives of Illustrious Men. Translated from the Greek, with Notes Critical and Historical, and a Life of Plutarch, by JOHN and WILLIAM LANGHORNE.
Página 108 - They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak ; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think ; They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.
Página 29 - Illustrations. The Life and Adventures of a Cheap Jack. By One of the Fraternity. Edited by CHARLES HINDLEY. The World Behind the Scenes. By PERCY FITZGERALD. Tavern Anecdotes and Sayings Including the Origin of Signs, and Reminiscences connected with Taverns, Coffee Houses, Clubs, &c.
Página 201 - But the hands that were played By that heathen Chinee, And the points that he made, Were quite frightful to see — Till at last he put down a right bower, Which the same Nye had dealt unto me. Then I looked up at Nye, And he gazed upon me; And he rose with a sigh. And said, "Can this be ? We are ruined by Chinese cheap labor," And he went for that heathen Chinee.
Página 108 - MEN ! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave? If ye do not feel the chain, When it works a brother's pain, Are ye not base slaves indeed, Slaves unworthy to be freed?
Página 201 - It was August the third, And quite soft was the skies ; Which it might be inferred That Ah Sin was likewise : Yet he played it that day upon William And me in a way I despise. Which we had a small game, And Ah Sin took a hand : It was euchre. The same He did not understand ; But he smiled as he sat by the table, With the smile that was childlike and bland.
Página 9 - Illustrations, js. 6d. Finger-Ring Lore: Historical, Legendary, and Anecdotal. By WM. JONES, FSA With Hundreds of Illustrations of Curious Rings of all Ages and Countries. " One of those gossiping books which are as full of amusement as of instntcturn."— ATHEN^BUM.
Página 4 - But yet his horse was not a whit Inclined 'to tarry there, For why? his owner had a house Full ten miles off, at Ware. So like an arrow swift he flew Shot by an archer strong, So did he fly — which brings me to The middle of my song.

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