Parodies of the Works of English & American Authors, Volume 3Reeves & Turner, 1886 - English wit and humor Includes parodies of Tennyson, Longfellow, Bret Harte, Thomas Hood, Swinburne, Browning, Shakespeare, Milton, Poe, Shelley, Cowper, Coleridge, Herrick, Carroll, Lever, Lover, Burns, Scott, Goldsmith, Kingsley, Byron and many others. |
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... beautiful turtles ? Know ye the land where the hot toast and muffin ? 218 Know ye the town where policemen and navvies ? 218 Know ye the stream where the cesspool and sewer ? Know'st thou the spot where the venison and turtle ? Diogenes ...
... beautiful turtles ? Know ye the land where the hot toast and muffin ? 218 Know ye the town where policemen and navvies ? 218 Know ye the stream where the cesspool and sewer ? Know'st thou the spot where the venison and turtle ? Diogenes ...
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... beautiful is night ? ' 99 " How troublesome is day ? " T. L. Peacock " How beautiful is green ? ' " " " Midnight , and yet no eye . " 99 " Midnight , yet not a nose . The Rebuilding James Smith . The Rejected Addresses Justice . Lays of ...
... beautiful is night ? ' 99 " How troublesome is day ? " T. L. Peacock " How beautiful is green ? ' " " " Midnight , and yet no eye . " 99 " Midnight , yet not a nose . The Rebuilding James Smith . The Rejected Addresses Justice . Lays of ...
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... beautiful story of Abraham is a parody on the Scripture - style ; not one of these writers , however , proposed to ridicule their originals ; some ingenuity in the application was all that they intended . The lady- critic alluded to had ...
... beautiful story of Abraham is a parody on the Scripture - style ; not one of these writers , however , proposed to ridicule their originals ; some ingenuity in the application was all that they intended . The lady- critic alluded to had ...
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... BEAUTIFUL FOR EVER . WHEN lovely woman , still a maiden , Finds her locks are turning grey , What art can keep their hue from fading ? What balm can intercept delay ? The only art her age to cover , To hide the change from every eye ...
... BEAUTIFUL FOR EVER . WHEN lovely woman , still a maiden , Finds her locks are turning grey , What art can keep their hue from fading ? What balm can intercept delay ? The only art her age to cover , To hide the change from every eye ...
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... beautiful old ballad Gentle Herdsman . This ballad is reprinted below , with Goldsmith's The Hermit , and a few verses from Bishop Percy's Friar of Orders Gray . It will be seen that although the poems have several points of resemblance ...
... beautiful old ballad Gentle Herdsman . This ballad is reprinted below , with Goldsmith's The Hermit , and a few verses from Bishop Percy's Friar of Orders Gray . It will be seen that although the poems have several points of resemblance ...
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