#English
Letters, letters, letters, letters… Some that please and some that bor… Some that threaten prison fetters (Metaphorically, fetters Such as bind insolvent debtors) -
In enterprise of martial kind, When there was any fighting, He led his regiment from behind (He found it less exciting). But when away his regiment ran,
A leafy cot, where no dry rot Had ever been by tenant seen, Where ivy clung and wopses stung, Where beeses hummed and drummed an… Where treeses grew and breezes ble…
If you give me your attention, I… I’m a genuine philanthropist - all… Each little fault of temper and ea… In my erring fellow-creatures, I… To all their little weaknesses I…
The bravest names for fire and fla… And all that mortal durst, Were GENERAL JOHN and P… Of the Sixty-seventy-first. GENERAL JOHN was a soldier tr…
Bold-faced ranger (Perfect stranger) Meets two well-behaved young ladie… He’s attractive, Young and active -
On all Arcadia’s sunny plain, On all Arcadia’s hill, None were so blithe as BILL and… So blithe as JANE and BILL. No social earthquake e’er occurred
BOB POLTER was a navvy, and His hands were coarse, and dirty t… His homely face was rough and tann… His time of life was thirty-two. He lived among a working clan
When I, good friends, was called… I’d an appetite fresh and hearty, But I was, as many young barriste… An impecunious party. I’d a swallow—tail coat of a beaut…
I stole the Prince, and I brought… And left him, gaily prattling With a highly respectable Gondoli… Who promised the Royal babe to re… And teach him the trade of a timon…
He is an Englishman! For he himself has said it, And it’s greatly to his credit, That he is an Englishman! For he might have been a Roosian,
When I went to the Bar as a very… (Said I to myself - said I), I’ll work on a new and original pl… (Said I to myself - said I), I’ll never assume that a rogue or…
When maiden loves, she sits and si… She wanders to and fro; Unbidden tear-drops fill her eyes, And to all questions she replies, With a sad heigho!
Only a dancing girl, With an unromantic style, With borrowed colour and curl, With fixed mechanical smile, With many a hackneyed wile,
A troubadour he played Without a castle wall, Within, a hapless maid Responded to his call. “Oh, willow, woe is me!