Nonsense: Or Hits & Criticisms on the Follies of the DayG. W. Carleton & Company, 1869 - 274 עמודים |
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עמוד 228 - In every village mark'd with little spire, Embower'd in trees, and hardly known to fame, There dwells, in lowly shed and mean attire, A matron old, whom we Schoolmistress name : Who boasts unruly brats with birch to tame...
עמוד 19 - Lean lightly forward with your head — not the body. Take good aim — the lips meet — the eyes close — the heart opens — the soul rides the storms, troubles, and sorrows of life (don't be in a hurry) — heaven opens before you — the world shoots from under...
עמוד 47 - ... and hunted them over till she found our regular initials in regular order ! Oh, it was so nice ! And we piled all the shirts up in a chair, and put a Bible, rescued from the wicked South, on the top of the pile, and then Rev.
עמוד 174 - I crawled out from that place of confinement with nose like a potato-blossom, half a hoop-skirt over my head and around my neck. And what work I had getting out ; worse than boring for petroleum as I wriggled through a forest of red stockings, variegated circus-tents, skates, and fancy elastics. Go to where I have been, go see what I have seen, go feel what I have felt, on that Fifth Avenue Skating Pond. Be knocked around and about by the careless crowd, and then tell me if skating carnivals are...
עמוד 39 - PSALM 131. heart not haughty is, O Lord, mine eyes not lofty be ; Nor do I deal in matters great, or things too high for me. 2 I surely have myself behav'd with quiet sp'rit and mild, As child of mother wean'd : my soul is like a weaned child. 3 Upon the Lord let all the hope of Israel rely, Ev'n from the time that present is unto eternity.
עמוד 18 - Don't l>e in a hurry ! Draw her gently, lovingly, to your heart. Her head will fall lightly upon your shoulder — and a handsome shoulder-strap it makes ! Don't be in a hurry ! Send a little life down your left arm, and let it know its business.
עמוד 271 - Oh Clams! Oh Clams! Soft clams! Tell your dads and tell your mams That I'm the boy to sell 'em clams! This little testimonial will be printed in volume two of his American Notes, price ten pence ha'penny ! At nine he breakfasted. He entered the dining-room by deploying from the left, striking the table in an oblique position on the extreme centre. He then caromed on a soft-boiled potato, levied on a link of fried eel, pulled an eye-winker from his left eye, camped on a hot buckwheat pancake rather...
עמוד 267 - Weston, the walkist, whose pleasant fictions as to wagers, and so forth, reminds us of Dickens. The papers have told all they know about WESTON. Some of them have had special correspondents to tell us of Dickens — who he was, how he was, what he was, when he was, where he was, why he was, which he was, and how he acted while he was! The New York papers are not particular enough. Their readers are great for gossip and raising the Dickens. We pattern after New York papers and cater only to those...
עמוד 272 - ... buckwheat pancake rather syruptitiously, drove his picket into a country sausage, illustrated an edition of porter-house beef-steak with cuts, made a water-fall of a glass of milk, wrestled with it two inches higher than his cheek bone, and downed a piece of butter and sneezed gently at the mustard ! Dickens uses tea. He uses it for a beverage. He holds the cup even with his cheek bone, in his left hand, and dips it in with a teaspoon. He refused to allow Butler to call on him during tea-time...