 MY AUNT. MY aunt ! my dear unmarried aunt ! Long years have o'er her flown ; Yet still she strains the aching clasp That binds her virgin zone ; I know it hurts her, — though she looks As cheerful as she can ; Her waist is ampler than her life, For...  Vers de Société - 81 psl.1875 - 401 psl.Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
 | Park Benjamin, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Osborne Sargent - 1833 - 114 psl.
...Had bowed a soul before it. Thine eye was on the censer, And not the hand that bore it. MTT AUNT. My aunt! my dear unmarried aunt ! Long years have o'er...though she looks As cheerful as she can ; Her waist is broader than her life, For life is but a span. My Aunt — my poor deluded aunt! Her hair is almost... | |
 | 1855 - 724 psl.
...I cling. Exquisite satire, and marvellous fidelity, are evidenced in the following: — MY AUNT. My aunt ! my dear unmarried aunt ! Long years have o'er...For life is but a span. My aunt ! my poor deluded annt ! Her hair is almost grey ; Why will she train that winter curl In such a spring-like way ? How... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1853 - 516 psl.
...pleasant and piquant raillery in the stanzas to " My Aunt," who, mediœval as she is, good soul ! still " strains the aching clasp that binds her virgin zone...My aunt! my poor deluded aunt! her hair is almost grey : Why will she train that winter curl in such a spring-like way? How can she lay her glasses down,... | |
 | 1853 - 538 psl.
...pleasant and piquant raillery in the stanzas to " My Aunt," who, mediœval as she is, good soul ! still " strains the aching clasp that binds her virgin zone...as she can ; Her waist is ampler than her life, for hfe is but a span. My aunt! my poor deluded aunt! her hair is almost grey : Why will she train that... | |
 | 1855 - 1416 psl.
...Exquisite satire, and marvellous fidelity, are evidenced in the following : — • -MY AUNT. My nunt ! my dear unmarried aunt ! Long years have o'er her...ampler than her life, For life Is but a span. My aunt 1 my poor deluded aunt ! Her hair is almost grey ; Why will she train that winter curl In such a spring-like... | |
 | 1855 - 1428 psl.
...cling. Exquisite satire, and marvellous fidelity, are evidenced in the following : — MY AUNT. My aunt! my dear unmarried aunt ! Long years have o'er...her virgin zone ; I know It hurts her, — though sho looks As cheerful as she can; Her waist is ampler than her life, For life is but a span. My aunt... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1855 - 474 psl.
...biii'ls her virgin zone; I know it hurts her, — though »he look» As cheerful пч she can ; Her wuist is ampler than her life-, For life is but a span. My aunt, my poor deluded aunt! lier hair и almost gray ; Why will she train that winter curl in such a spring-like way I How can... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 610 psl.
...Were Ч not for laughing I should pity him. Shake. Henry IV. Part I Still she strains the aehing elasp That binds her virgin zone ; I know it hurts her, though she looks As eheerful as she ean, Her waist is larger than her life For life is but a span. OW 11Лпия ее CORRUPTION.... | |
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