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ancient beautiful beneath boast boot bright Buncombe Captain JONES coursers CYCLOPS Dapper dead dear deem Devil of Names doubt dream e'er ears EPIGRAM exceedingly fame fancy feel fellow fond friends gave gentle Gentleman Ghost girl gold golden gout grace Greek grief haply happy head hear heart honest honor horrid John knave Lady ANN lawyer learned locks lover maid maiden Mammon manly metre Middlebury College mind Miss Mac Bride moral Muse ne'er neighboring never nice o'er once Parnassian PETER PHAËTHON phiz PHŒBUS phrase plain pleasant POLYPHEMUS precious pride prose proud rejoice rhyme sacred sage scarce seems sigh sing Slaves song SONNET sooth spite stoops to conquer Styx SUSAN BROWN tale talking terrible thee There's thing THISBE to-day To-morrow toil tongue turned Twas ULYSSES verse vulgar wit Sets woman young young blade youth zeal
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Page 42 - Depend upon it, my snobbish friend, Your family thread you can't ascend, Without good reason to apprehend You may find it waxed, at the farther end. By some plebeian vocation \\ Or, worse than that, your boasted line May end in a loop of stronger twine, That plagued some worthy relation ! But Miss MacBride had something beside Her lofty birth to nourish her pride — For rich was the old paternal MacBride, According to public rumor : And he lived " up town,
Page 57 - Magazine! Stranger on the left, Closing up his peepers; Now he snores amain, Like the Seven Sleepers; At his feet a volume Gives the explanation, How the man grew stupid From "Association!
Page 150 - Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.
Page 54 - And in less than a jiffy was in it! Next morning twelve citizens came ('Twas the coroner bade them attend), To the end that it might be determined How the man had determined his end! " The man was a lawyer, I hear...
Page 56 - In the eye of Fame, Here are very quickly Coming to the same. High and lowly people, Birds of every feather, On a common level...
Page 98 - The moral of this mournful tale, To all is plain and clear, — That drinking habits bring a man Too often to his bier ; And he who scorns to 'take the pledge...
Page 173 - Now PETER loved a beautiful girl As ever ensnared the heart of an earl In the magical trap of an auburn curl, — A little Miss THISBE who lived next door, (They...
Page 53 - E'er hope for the smallest progression, — The profession's already so full Of lawyers so full of profession!' While thus he was strolling around, His eye accidentally fell On a very deep hole in the ground, And he sighed to himself,
Page 96 - All day this fisherman would sit Upon an ancient log, And gaze into the water, like Some sedentary frog ; With all the seeming innocence, And that unconscious look, That other people often wear When they intend to
Page 39 - It seems a singular thing to say, But her very senses led her astray Respecting all humility ; In sooth, her dull auricular drum Could find in Humble only a " hum," And heard no sound of "gentle" come, In talking about gentility.