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…ulous characters of which we hear so much and see so little, is to point out the analogy of lawn-tennis and life in a light and humorous way which even on the most blasé of Freshmen will be unlikely to pall. I will quote you the Walt that was Whitman, the Wilde that was Oscar, the Vincent O’Sullivan, paean | and chant of the classical world, songs from America due to the lyre of the Harte that was Bret. ~ And all these estimable personages, very useful in their way, but to be strenuously opposed if they should endeavour to put their oar into mo…
1904 · PDF PAGE 22
…lest, strong clod,! You reckon on the odd. 1 The author is indebted to Mr Francis Thompson for this felicitous and, withal, epigrammatic way of writing ‘‘ man.”
1904 · PDF PAGE 83
THE VILLAGE CHAMPIONS 71 “ Well, mister, that’s the facs as seen Ten year ago come Chris’mas day, An’ so our villidge always been - The leadin’ villidge down our way ; But Billy Stokes ’ull always ’ave A ruin’ stummick to ’is grave. “ An’ when ’e tell the story now, ’"E seem to gasp fur want of breath— Yes, mister, Sawbones ses as ’ow ’E wean’t be better till ’is death ; ‘Unto ’is grave,’ ’e ses, ses ’e, ‘A ruin’ stummick’s what ’e be!’”
1904 · PDF PAGE 78
…ughty Mr Swinburne scribbles ; The human heart with love enring ; Don’t dig right into it with dibbles! Good luck, my lass, you now your way can see! —I feared she might have taken me to Replenish the unusual vacancy ; And I have other things to see to.
1904 · PDF PAGE 73
…EROMITA ROSTRATA SWEET microscopic beauty ; born one day In not imperishable head of cod! Young organism Sporting flagella in a cheerful way, But neither cilium nor pseudopod ; Produced by schism ! Thou dost not browse on pastures bright and green, Or feed on palm trees in sublime oases In lands Semitic. Not holophytic is thy food I ween, Nor holozoic, as in other races, But saprophytic. When bliss conjugal is thine object praiseworthy A swimming form approaches to an anchored With zeal ecstatic : Affection of a healthy length of days worthy, Y…
1904 · PDF PAGE 11
… stuff!” _ My own little scheme of supplying With fuel the realms of the cussed Is to stoke all the fires with the flying MSS blown that way by a gust A
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THE VILLAGE CHAMPIONS (FOUNDED ON FACT) ‘The way to Dorking, mister? Ay! I wean’t, a-fearin’ to deceive ; I bean’t a man as can rely, To speak on, as you might perceive. You go an’ ax that chap you see A-sitting by the villidge tree.” “« And who is he ?” the stranger said. “He seems more aged than you, my friend!” “Why, bless you, so ’e be,” his head He sadly scratched from end to end, “ But sich a hintellect, I'll lay You don’t see, mister, hevery day ! “Why, Billy Stoke ’e were the cove A matter o’ ten year agone What beat Jim Buskett out o’ …
1904 · PDF PAGE 19
…a’s lap : “ Hi, Mister, your wheel’s goin’ round !” Though Jack may be followed by Jill, On the slope, a man’s claret to tap ; There’s a way that is made by a will, Like a river turned on from a tap. You may cover the whole of the map, Your face with the sunlight is browned, You smile when boys shout, with a clap,! Hi, Mister, your wheel’s goin’ round !” Thus good is the converse of ill (Such truths are the moralist’s pap), And turbot makes excellent brill ; Verse goes with a tang and a snap. 1 The phrase is adverbial.
1904 · PDF PAGE 105
…tter than Macbeth, better than the Cenci ; better than the Mother’s Tragedy. No! this praise is too fulsome, too indiscriminate; but any way, better than the other two. He groans like laurelled Martial in Burns’s poem ; yet his assassin does not tickle the ears of the groundlings with a coarse “ Crévé, nom de D !” but in supreme self-mastery, the iron con- trol of a lunatic whose sanity is at stake, enters stern and silent, his eyes glittering with fiendish joy — Baviére, thy poster is superb!—and develops with calm and scientific precision his…