Tom Crib's Memorial to Congress: With a Preface, Notes, and Appendix |
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Page 88 - And having valiantly ascended Upon the Mighty Man's protuberance, They did so strut! — upon my soul, It must have been extremely droll To see their pigmy pride's exuberance!
Page 51 - Buffers came, While ribbers rung from each resounding frame, And divers digs, and many a ponderous pelt, Were on their broad bread-baskets heard and felt. With roving aim, but aim that rarely miss'd Round...
Page 38 - till cries of " GREGSON" Brought BOB, the Poet, on his legs soon — ( My eyes, how prettily BOB writes ! Talk of your Camels, Hogs, and Crabs...
Page 51 - While rtbbers rung from each resounding frame, And divers digs, and many a ponderous pelt, Were on their broad bread-baskets heard and felt. With roving aim, but aim that rarely miss'd, Round lugs and ogles* flew the frequent fist ; While showers of facers...
Page xxvii - An ANGLER for duds carries a short staff in his hand, which is called a filch, having in the nab or head of it a ferine (that is to say a hole) into which, upon any piece of service, when he goes a filching, he putteth a hooke of iron, with which hook he angles at a window in the dead of night for shirts, smockes, or any other linen or woollen.
Page 57 - And pitying raised from earth the game old man, Uncow'd, undamaged to the sport he came, His limbs all muscle, and his soul all flame. The memory of his...
Page 88 - SIR Hudson Lowe, Sir Hudson Low, (By name, and ah ! by nature so) As thou art fond of persecutions, Perhaps thou'st read, or heard repeated, How Captain Gulliver was treated, When thrown among the Lilliputians. They tied him down — these little men did — And having valiantly ascended Upon the Mighty Man's protuberance, They did so strut...
Page 7 - The hitch in the metre here was rendered necessary by the quotation, which is from a celebrated Fancy chant, ending, every verse, thus :— For we are the boys of the Holy Ground, And we'll dance upon nothing, and turn us round!
Page 59 - Scarabee had a right to his victory; a man does not give his life to the study of a single limited subject for nothing, and the moment we come across a first-class expert we begin to take a pride in his superiority.
Page 5 - LOBSTER. A nick name for a soldier, from the colour of his clothes. To boil one's lobster, for a churchman to become a soldier: lobsters, which are of a bluish black, being made red by boiling.