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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... pass in the Holidays ? Banter , 1867 147 How the Horses come round at the Corner . Fun 148 Comic Almanac ... A Seasonable Gossip . The Puppet Show , 1848 ... The Battle of Jobbing . Diogenes , 1853 ... The Battle of Berlin . Funny Folks ...
... pass in the Holidays ? Banter , 1867 147 How the Horses come round at the Corner . Fun 148 Comic Almanac ... A Seasonable Gossip . The Puppet Show , 1848 ... The Battle of Jobbing . Diogenes , 1853 ... The Battle of Berlin . Funny Folks ...
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... passing stranger that can pay ; Where Calvert's butt , and Parson's black champaign . Regale the drabs and bloods of Drury Lane ; There , in a lonely room , from bailiffs snug , The Muse found Scroggen stretch'd beneath a rug ; A window ...
... passing stranger that can pay ; Where Calvert's butt , and Parson's black champaign . Regale the drabs and bloods of Drury Lane ; There , in a lonely room , from bailiffs snug , The Muse found Scroggen stretch'd beneath a rug ; A window ...
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... passes Rotten row ; In Brookes's sits one quidnunc to peruse The broad dull sheet which tells the lack of news . At White's a lonely Brummell lifts his glass To see two empty Hackney Coaches pass ; The timid housemaid , issuing forth ...
... passes Rotten row ; In Brookes's sits one quidnunc to peruse The broad dull sheet which tells the lack of news . At White's a lonely Brummell lifts his glass To see two empty Hackney Coaches pass ; The timid housemaid , issuing forth ...
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... pass your time away . There's nothing but a little lamp , A pitcher aud a cat ! The place must be extremely damp- Why don't you wear a hat ? No chaff , my son , the hermit cries , But walk your chalks along ; Your path to the rotunda ...
... pass your time away . There's nothing but a little lamp , A pitcher aud a cat ! The place must be extremely damp- Why don't you wear a hat ? No chaff , my son , the hermit cries , But walk your chalks along ; Your path to the rotunda ...
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... pass ' Repeal ' My own peculiar treasure ? " " Oh ! I'm the man , ye ken full weel , That does just what's my pleasure . And fast before the farmers ' friends , I've fled in your direction- And , should they gain their private ends , My ...
... pass ' Repeal ' My own peculiar treasure ? " " Oh ! I'm the man , ye ken full weel , That does just what's my pleasure . And fast before the farmers ' friends , I've fled in your direction- And , should they gain their private ends , My ...
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