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Kiggins & Kellogg, 1854
 

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Seite 95 - loved a pretty maid, Her name was Nelly Gray ; So he went to pay her his devours, When he'd devoured his pay ! But when he called on Nelly Gray, She made him quite a scoff, And when she saw his wooden legs— Began to take them off !
Seite 95 - he was blithe and brave ; But I will never have a man With both legs in the grave !" " Before you had those timber toes, Your love I did allow, But then, you know, you stand upon Another footing now !" « O, Nelly Gray ! O } Nelly Gray i For all your jeering speeches. At duty's call, I left my legs In
Seite 95 - I wish I ne'er had seen your face ; But, now, a long farewell ! For you will be my death ,•—alas ! You will not be my Nell!" Now when he went from Nelly Gray, His heart so heavy got, And life was such a burthen grown, It made him take a knot ! So round his melancholy
Seite 59 - No sun—no moon ! No morn—no noon— No dawn—no dusk—no proper time of dayNo sky—no earthly view— No distance looking "blue— No road—no street—no " t'other side the way"—. No end to any Row— No indications where the Crescents goNo top to any steepleNo recognitions of familiar people—• No courtesies for showing 'em— No knowing 'em ! No travelling at all—no
Seite 74 - For I mine eyes will rivet to his face ; And after we will both our judgments join In censure of his seeming. • Give him heedful note ;
Seite 182 - took a Kopf-Bad, Lastly, he rose almost upright on his latter end, and made such a triumphant flapping with his wings that we really expected he was going to shout " Priessnitz for ever !" But no such thing. He only cried, " Quack ! quack ! quack !" A PISCATORY ROMANCE. CHAPTER I. " Let me live harmlessly, and near the brink Of Trent or Avon have a dwelling
Seite 39 - call'd on Sally Brown, To see how she got on, He found she'd got another Ben, Whose Christian name was John. " 0 Sally Brown, O Sally Brown, How could you serve me so, I've met with many a breeze before
Seite 38 - !—I'm not a fish-woman, And so I cannot swim. " Alas ! I was not born beneath The virgin and the scales, So I must curse my cruel stars, And walk about in Wales." Now Ben had sail'd to many a place That's underneath the world ; But
Seite 44 - crown'd with pretty sea-wares, And her locks are golden and loose : And seek to her feet, like other folks' heirs, To stand, of course, in her shoes ! And, all day long-, she combeth them well, "With a sea-shark's prickly jaw; And her mouth is just like a rose-lipp'd shell, The fairest that man e'er saw
Seite 48 - themselves, like other folks, to reading ; But setting out where others nigh have done, And being ripen'd in the seventh stage, The childhood of old age, Began, as other children have, begun,— Not with the pastorals of Mr. Pope, Or Bard of Hope, Or Valentine and Orson-— But chiefly fairy tales they loved to con

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