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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: HOOD'S WHIMSICALITIES. ANACREONTIC. BY A FOOTMAN. It's wery well to talk in praise Of Tea and Water-drinking ways, In proper time and place; Of sober draughts, so clear and cool, Dipp'd out of a transparent pool Reflecting heaven's face. Of babbling brooks, and purling rills, And streams as gushes from the hills, It's wery well to talk;? But what becomes of all sich schemes, With ponds of ice, and running streams, As doesn't even walk ? When Winter comes with piercing cold, And all the rivers, new or old, Is frozen far and wide; And limpid springs is solid stuff, And crystal pools is hard enough To skate upon and slide;? What then are thirsty men to do, But drink of ale, and porter too, Champagne as makes a fizz; Port, sherry, or the Rhenish sort, And p'rhaps a drop of summut short? The water-pipes is friz ANI) TBLBMACHUS BNBW THT HB BBHBLD MINBBVA, THE SCHOOLMISTRESS ABKOAD. AN EXTRAVAGANZA. She tawht 'hem to sew and marke, All manner of sylkyn werke, Of her they were ful fayne.?Romance of Emm. CHAPTER I. A Schoolmistress ought not to travel? No, Sir I No, Madam?except on the map. There, indeed, she may skip from a blue continent to a green one?cross a pink isthmus ?traverse a Red, Black, or Yellow Sea?land in a purple island, or roam in an orange desert, without danger or indecorum.There she may ascend dotted rivers, sojourn at capital cities, scale alps, and wade through bogs, without soiling her shoe, rumpling her satin, or showing her ankle. But as to practical travelling, ?real journeying and voyaging, ?oh, never, never, never How, Sir Would you deny to a Preceptress all the excursive pleasures of locomotion ? By no means, Miss. In the summer holidays, when the days are long, and t...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217970471 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217970478 |
| Weight | 1.15 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.79 In |
| List Price | $22.72 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 354 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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