Thackeray's Works
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ISBN13: 9780217061421
Paperback|9780217061421
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ' I pray Prince Ned, my second son, And my successor dear, To piy to his intendant Five hundred pounds a year; And to think of his old father, And live and make good cheer.' Such was old Brentford's honest testament, He did devise his moneys for the best, And lies in Brentford church in peaceful rest. Prince Edward lived, and money made and spent; But his good sire was wrong, it is confess'd To say his son, young Thomas, never lent. He did. Young Thomas lent at interest, And nobly took his twenty-five per cent. Long time the famous reign of Ned endured O'er Chiswick, Fulham, Brentford, Putney, Kew, But of extravagance he ne'er was cured. And when both died, as mortal men will do, 'T was commonly reported that the steward Was very much the richer of the two. THE WHITE SQUALL. On deck, beneath the awning, T dozing lay and yawning; It was the gray of dawning, Ere yet the sun arose; And above the funnel's roaring, And the fitful wind's deploring, I heard the cabin snoring With universal nose. I could hear the passengers snorting - I envied their disporting ? Vainly I was courting The pleasure of a doze So I lay, aud wondered why ligh Came not, and watched the twilight, And the glimmer of the skylight, That shot across the deck; And the binnacle pale and steady, And the dull glimpse of the dead-eye, And the sparks in fiery eddy That whirled from the chimney neck In our jovial floating prison There was sleep from fore to mizzen, And never a star had risen The hazy sky to speck. Strange company we harbored; We 'd a hundred Jews to larboard, Unwashed, uncombed, unbarbered ? Jews black, and brown, and gray; With terror it would seize ye, And make your souls uneasy, To see those Rabbis greasy, Who did naught...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217061421 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217061427 |
| Weight | 1.02 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.70 In |
| List Price | $19.94 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 314 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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