Part 35 (1/2)
He could not know in Pimlico, As little she in Seville, That _I_ should reel upon that peel, And--wish them at the devil.
FREDERICK LOCKER, _London Lyrics_.
Kenny said that Anthony Pasquin (who was a very dirty fellow) ”died of a cold caught by was.h.i.+ng his face.”
THOMAS MOORE, _Diary_.
_ON THE PRINCE REGENT'S ILLNESS._
The Regent, sir, is taken ill; And all depends on Halford's skill; ”Pray what,” inquired the sage physician, ”Has brought him to this sad condition?”
When Bloomfield ventured to p.r.o.nounce, ”A little too much Cherry Bounce,”
The Regent, hearing what was said, Raised from his couch his aching head, And cried, ”No, Halford, 'tis not so!
_Cure us, O_ doctor,--_Curacoa!_”
H. LUTTRELL, _apud_ BARHAM.
Brigham Young has two hundred wives. He loves not wisely, but two hundred well. He's dreadfully married. He's the most married man I ever saw in my life. He says that all he wants now is to live in peace for the remainder of his days, and have his dying pillow soothed by the loving hands of his family. Well, that's all right, I suppose; but if all his family soothe his dying pillow, he'll have to go out-doors to die.
C. F. BROWNE, _Artemus Ward's Lecture_.
And I said, ”What is written, sweet sister, At the opposite end of the room?”
She sobbed, as she answered, ”All liquors Must be paid for ere leaving the room.”
BRET HARTE, _Complete Works_.
Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.
LORD CHESTERFIELD, _Letters to his Son_.
The Walrus and the Carpenter Were walking close at hand; They wept like anything to see Such quant.i.ties of sand: ”If this were only cleared away,”
They said, ”It _would_ be grand!”
”If seven maids, with seven mops, Swept it for half a year, Do you suppose,” the Walrus said, ”That they could get it clear?”
”I doubt it;” said the Carpenter, And shed a bitter tear.
LEWIS CARROLL, _Through the Looking-Gla.s.s_.
We easily convert our own vices into other people's virtues, the virtues of others into vices.
W. HAZLITT, _Characteristics_.