 And licked the soup from the cooks' own ladles, Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats....  Punch - Page 2511849Full view - About this book
 | 1865 - 820 pages
...the vats, And licked the soup from the cook's own tables ; Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the...and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats. " At last the people in a body To the town-hall came flocking . "Tis clear,' cried they, 'our mayor's... | |
 | 1871 - 878 pages
...the vats, And licked the soup from the oook'a own ladles, Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the...drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking nfifty different sharps and flats." There is vast difference between the three writers ; the courtly... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1850 - 436 pages
...the vats, And licked the soup from the cook's own ladles, Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the...and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats. At last the people in a body To the Town Hall came flocking: " 'Tis clear," cried they, " our Mayor... | |
 | 1852 - 302 pages
...kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats liy drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In .fifty different sharps and flats." "Meeting at Midnight," with which we must close our extracts, has many of the characteristics of Tennyson,... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 676 pages
...from the cook's own ladles. Split open tho kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hata, And even spoiled the women's chats, By drowning their...and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats. III. At last the people in a body To the Town Hall came flocking : " "Pis clear," cried they, " our... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - 1860 - 794 pages
...the vats, And lieked the soup from the cooks' own ladles, Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the...and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats. "The Aldermen being threatened with mobs if they did not relieve the people, offered high rewards.... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1861 - 562 pages
...the vats, And licked the soup from the cook's own ladles ; Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the...and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats. * 'Tis dear," cried they, " our mayor's a noddy ; And as for our corporation — shocking To think... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 224 pages
...vats, Anil licked the soup from, the cook's own ladles, Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the...and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats. At last the people in a body To the Town-hall came flocking : " 'Tis clear," cried they, " our Mayor's... | |
 | Coventry Patmore - 1862 - 372 pages
...the vats, And licked the soup from the cook's own ladles. Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the...and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats. At last the people in a body To the Town-hall came flocking : ' 'Tis clear,' cried they, ' our Mayor's... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1862 - 578 pages
...the vats, And licked the soup from the cooks' own ladles, Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the...and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats. At last the people in a body To the Town Hall came flocking : " 'Tis clear," cried they, " our Mayor's... | |
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