 | 1843 - 586 strani
...by the exquisite absurdity of three lines. ' Think of two thousand gentlemen at least, And each man mounted on his capering beast ; Into the Danube they were pushed by shoals.' Where to procure better verses the Treasurer did not know. He understood how to negotiate a loan, or... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell - 1843 - 614 strani
...the exquisite absurdity of three linee. • Think of two thousand gentlemen at least, And each man mounted on his capering beast ; Into the Danube they were pushed by shoals.' Where to procure better verses the Treasurer did not know. He understood how to negotiate a loan, or... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1853 - 600 strani
...by the exquisite absurdity of three lines: " Think of two thousand gentlemen at least, And each man mounted on his capering beast; Into the Danube they were pushed by shoals." Where to procure better verses the treasurer did not know. He understood how to negotiate a loan, or... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1853 - 600 strani
...by the exquisite absurdity of three lines: " Think of two thousand gentlemen at least, And each man mounted on his capering beast; Into the Danube they were pushed by shoals." Where to procure better verses the treasurer did not know. lie understood how to negotiate a loan,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1854 - 464 strani
...by the exquisite absurdity of three lines : " Think of two thousand gentlemen at least; And each man mounted on his capering beast ; Into the Danube they were pushed by shoals." Where to procure better verses the treasurer did not know. He understood how to negotiate a loan, or... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 584 strani
...by the exquisite absurdity of three lines : " Think of two thousand gentlemen at least, And each man mounted on his capering beast; Into the Danube they were pushed by shoals." Where to procure better verses the treasurer did not know. He understood how to negotiate a loan,,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1088 strani
...by the exquisite absurdity of three lines. " Think of two thousand gentlemen at least, And each man mounted on his capering beast; Into the Danube they were pushed by shoals." Where to procure better verses the Treasurer did not know. He understood how to negotiate a loan, or... | |
 | John Timbs - 1865 - 372 strani
...the exquisite absurdity of three lines : — Think of two thousand gentlemen at least, And each man mounted on his capering beast ; Into the Danube they were pushed by shoals. Where to procure better verses the Treasurer did not know. He understood how to negotiate a loan, or... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1866 - 730 strani
...by the exquisite absurdity of three lines. " Think of two thousand gentlemen at least, And each man mounted on his capering beast ; Into the Danube they were pushed by shoals." Where to procure better verses the Treasurer did not know. He understood how to negotiate a loan, or... | |
 | Edward Thring - 1868 - 256 strani
...poetry in its dress it becomes amusing:— ' Think of two thousand gentlemen at least, And each man mounted on his capering beast, Into the Danube they were pushed by shoals, And sunk and bobbed, and bobbed and sunk, and sunk and bobbed their souls.' The difference, then, between... | |
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One of these poems has been rescued from oblivion by the exquisite absurdity of three lines: " Think of two thousand gentlemen at least, And each man mounted on his capering beast; Into the Danube they were pushed by shoals. 
