FOLLOW A WORD THROUGH THE COLLECTION
Search the corpus.
Phrase search ignores case and repeated whitespace. All-words search finds whole words anywhere on the same page. OCR errors can affect results.
3 matching pages
Page 1 of 11909 · PDF PAGE 6
…England and to us to-day Still fair and young. II. I saw thee limned in all the robes and pearls, Diamonds and ermine that proclaim thee queen : Thou wast (or I know nothing about girls) Barely eighteen.2 . . . . . . VII. Thy royal Edwards undivided love Hath been thy lifelong privilege, tis true ! Still, is he not, though us so far above, Our Edward too ? . . . . . . XII. Why did the heathen Hindoos loyal roar Acclaim that dream brighter than bard eer dreamt ?3 He worshipped thee4 . . . XIII. Twas not thy Georges viking frame that set Au…
1909 · PDF PAGE 9
…verse III. Will not some hero, loyal, leal, and true, (Men fainting cried) the accursed chromo take ? The nation took the chromo, queen, and you, You took the cake. 3. Clearly refers to the late Duke of Clarence and Avondale. 4. Suggested restoration by Dr Verrall and Brugsch Bey : . . . and made allowance for A first attempt. 5. v. I. . . . his Hoffmanns violet Aniline eyes.
1909 · PDF PAGE 10
…avedst. 12. It is said that on the occasion of an important shooting match at Hurlingham, in which the Prince of Wales was to take part, Queen Alexandra in full regalia rushed between No. 3 trap and the 24-yard mark, and, in noble imitation of the Empress Agrippina, smote herself in the region of the uterus and cried Strike here ! From that moment the doom of pigeon-shooting (save the mark !) at least in England, ever leader of humanitarian exacerba- tion, was sealed. 13. v. I. . . . our statisticians own . . . our J. Holt Schoolings. 14. v…