 | 1824 - 496 páginas
...own cguntry. AM. EDITOR*. The walls are damp, the ditches smell, Clos'd is the piDk-t>y'd pimpernel!. Hark ! how the chairs and tables crack, Old BETTY'S joints are on the rack ; Her corns with shooting pains torment her, And to her bed untimely sent her. Loud quack the ducks,... | |
 | 1824 - 452 páginas
...a rainbow spans the sky. The walls are damp, the ditches smell, Clos'd is the pink-ey'd pimpernell. Hark ! how the chairs and tables crack, Old Betty's joints are on the rack ; Loud <juack the ducks, thepeacocks cry ; The distant hills are looking nigh. How restless are the snorting... | |
 | William Hone - 1826 - 882 páginas
...a rainbow spans the sky. Ttx walls are damp, the dit ekes sme II, Clos'd is the pink-ey'd pimpernel Hark ! how the chairs and tables crack, Old Betty's joints are on the rack : Her nnt with shooting pains torment her, And to her be 1 untimely send her. loud quack the ducks,... | |
 | 1863 - 376 páginas
...crawling o'er the green ; Loud quack the ducks, the peacocks cry, The distant hills are looking nigh ; Hark, how the chairs and tables crack, Old Betty's joints are on the rack ; And see yon rooks how odd their flight, They imitate the gliding kite, Or seem precipitate to fall... | |
 | Thomas Furly Forster - 1827 - 522 páginas
...a rainbow spans the sky. The walls are damp, the ditches smell, Clos'd is the light red pimpernel. Hark ! how the chairs and tables crack, Old Betty's joints are on the rack : Her corns with shooting pains torment her, And to her bed untimely send her. Loud quack the ducks,... | |
 | James Melville M'Culloch - 1831 - 250 páginas
...black, the glass is low ; The soot falls down, the spaniels sleep, And spiders from their cobwebs creep. Hark ! how the chairs and tables crack ; Old Betty's...the ducks, the peacocks cry ; The distant hills are looking nigh. How restless are the snorting swine ! The busy flies disturb the kine ; Low o'er the... | |
 | 1831 - 584 páginas
...a rainbow spans the sky ! The walls are damp, the ditches smell, Clos'd is the pink-ey'd pimpernel. Hark ! how the chairs and tables crack ; Old Betty's...the ducks, the peacocks cry,. The distant hills are looking nigh ; How restless are the snorting swine ; . • -i— -yii. The busy flies disturb the kine.... | |
 | James Campbell (teacher of English.) - 1832 - 274 páginas
...a rainbow spans the sky. The walls are damp, the ditches smell, Closed is the pink-eyed pimpernell. Hark ! how the chairs and tables crack, Old Betty's...the ducks, the peacocks cry, The distant hills are looking nigh. How restless are the snorting swine ? The busy flies disturb the kine; Low o'er the grass... | |
 | 1832 - 670 páginas
...a rainbow spans the sky. The walls are damp, the ditches smell, Clos'd is the pink-eyed pimpernel. Hark ! how the chairs and tables crack; Old Betty's...the ducks, the peacocks cry; The distant hills are looking nigh. How restless are the snorting swine ; The busy flies disturb the kine; Low o'er the grass... | |
 | 1832 - 406 páginas
...kite 1832.] 124 THE PENNY MAGAZINE. Or seem precipitate to fall As if they felt the piercing ball ; How restless are the snorting swine, The busy flies disturb the kine, Low o'er the grass the swallow wings, The cricket too, how loud she singi, Puss on the hearth with... | |
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Hark, how the chairs and tables crack, Old Betty's joints are on the rack; Loud quack the ducks, the peacocks cry, The distant hills are looking nigh. How restless are the snorting swine... 
