The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature of All Times and Nations, כרך 1Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley Gebbie Publishing Company, Limited, 1884 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 90
עמוד 1
... talk continued . It was terrible to be thus haunted by a voice ; to have advice , commands , remonstrance , all sorts of saws and adages still poured upon him , and no visible wife . Now did the voice speak from the curtains ; now from ...
... talk continued . It was terrible to be thus haunted by a voice ; to have advice , commands , remonstrance , all sorts of saws and adages still poured upon him , and no visible wife . Now did the voice speak from the curtains ; now from ...
עמוד 3
... talk continued . It was terrible to be How he tramples upon the heart's - ease : thus haunted by a voice ; to have advice , how , with quivering snout , he roots up commands , remonstrance , all sorts of saws lilies - oderiferous bulbs ...
... talk continued . It was terrible to be How he tramples upon the heart's - ease : thus haunted by a voice ; to have advice , how , with quivering snout , he roots up commands , remonstrance , all sorts of saws lilies - oderiferous bulbs ...
עמוד 5
... Talking about getting divorced , —I'm sure tobacco ought to be good grounds . How little does a woman think , when she mar ries , that she gives herself up to be poison- ed ! You men contrive to have it all of The Quaker's Meeting . An ...
... Talking about getting divorced , —I'm sure tobacco ought to be good grounds . How little does a woman think , when she mar ries , that she gives herself up to be poison- ed ! You men contrive to have it all of The Quaker's Meeting . An ...
עמוד 7
... talk continued . It was terrible to be How he tramples upon the heart's - ease : thus haunted by a voice ; to have advice , how , with quivering snout , he roots up commands , remonstrance , all sorts of saws lilies - oderiferous bulbs ...
... talk continued . It was terrible to be How he tramples upon the heart's - ease : thus haunted by a voice ; to have advice , how , with quivering snout , he roots up commands , remonstrance , all sorts of saws lilies - oderiferous bulbs ...
עמוד 7
... Talking about getting divorced , -I'm sure decent woman . You know I hate tobacco , tobacco ought to be good grounds . How and yet you will do it . You don't smoke little does a woman think , when she mar- yourself ? What of that ? If ...
... Talking about getting divorced , -I'm sure decent woman . You know I hate tobacco , tobacco ought to be good grounds . How and yet you will do it . You don't smoke little does a woman think , when she mar- yourself ? What of that ? If ...
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
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קטעים בולטים
עמוד 238 - I am not yet of Percy's mind, the Hotspur of the north ; he that kills me some six or seven dozen of Scots at a breakfast, washes his hands, and says to his wife. — " Fie upon this quiet life! I want work.
עמוד 291 - A' made a finer end and went away an it had been any christom child ; a' parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o' the tide : for after I saw him fumble with the sheets and play with flowers and smile upon his fingers...
עמוד 230 - So when this loose behaviour I throw off, And pay the debt I never promised, By how much better than my word I am, By so much shall I falsify men's hopes...
עמוד 240 - Harry, I do not only marvel where thou spendest thy time, but also how thou art accompanied : for though: the camomile, the more it is trodden on, the faster it grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted, the sooner it...
עמוד 230 - I'll sup. Farewell. Poins. Farewell, my lord. {Exit POINS. P. Hen. I know you all, and will a while uphold The unyok'd humour of your idleness : Yet herein will I imitate the sun, Who doth permit the base contagious clouds To smother up his beauty from the world...
עמוד 249 - Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt' goblet, sitting in my Dolphin chamber, at the round table, by a sea-coal fire, upon Wednesday in Whitsun week, when the prince broke thy head for liking his father to a singing-man of Windsor ; thou didst swear to me then, as I was washing thy wound, to marry me, and make me my lady thy wife.
עמוד 243 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it ? No. Doth he hear it ? No. Is it insensible then ? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? No. Why? Detraction will not suffer it : — therefore I'll none of it : Honour is a mere scutcheon/ and so ends my catechism.
עמוד 371 - It is indeed much easier to describe what is not humour, than what is ; and very difficult to define it otherwise than as Cowley has done wit, by negatives. Were I to give my own notions of it, I would deliver them after Plato's manner, in a kind of allegory, and by supposing Humour to be a person, deduce to him all his qualifications, according to the following genealogy.
עמוד 219 - The ghosts fled, gibbering, for their own dominions — (For 'tis not yet decided where they dwell, And I leave every man to his opinions) ; Michael took refuge in his trump — but, lo! His teeth were set on edge, he could not blow!
עמוד 323 - that same is the way You've thrated my heart for this many a day; And 'tis plazed that I am, and why not, to be sure, For 'tis all for good luck," says bold Rory O'More. "Indeed, then," says Kathleen, "don't think of the like, For I half gave a promise to soothering Mike; The ground that I walk on he loves, I'll be bound " "Faith," says Rory, "I'd rather love you than the ground.