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A Friendly Apology For A Certain Justice Of Peace By Way Of Defence Of Hartley Hutcheson, Esq. By James Black-Well, Operator For The Feet Jonathan Swift	Then raves and blunders nonsense thicker Than alderman o'ercharged with liquor: And all this with design, no doubt, To hear his praises hawk'd about;...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Aims At Happiness Jane Taylor	And try her fortune at a watering-place ; The alderman, wheeled out in gouty chair ; The love-sick girl, sent down for change of air ; The sickly...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Aldermen and Antirrhinum Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis	I walked out with an alderman, all on a bright spring...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ben Jonson Entertains a Man from Stratford Edwin Arlington Robinson	By Stratford, and where you’re an...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Benedetta Ramus Andrew Lang	Why, dilettante records say An Alderman, who came that way, Woo'd you and made you Lady Day; You crowned his civic...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Brodie Castle James McIntyre	-fellows, and now, and for many years, an Alderman of the city of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Cackle Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis	If it does not cease to grumble; And each alderman will mumble Glad 'Hear,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Don Juan: Canto The Seventh George Gordon Lord Byron	Who loved blood as an alderman loves...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Faithful Eckart Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	Whether father, or master, or alderman he, Obey him, and follow his...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Government Carl Sandburg	I saw a ward alderman slip into an office one morning and talk with a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
How We Kept The Day. Will Carleton	A singer or two beneath him did drop-- A big fat alderman fell atop; And that was the way Our orator lay, Till we fished him out, on the eloquent day,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Hudibras, Part I (excerpts) Samuel Butler	And that a lord may be an owl, A calf an alderman, a goose a justice, And rooks Committee-men and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Hudibras: Part 1 - Canto I Samuel Butler	And that a lord may be an owl, A calf an alderman, a goose a justice, And rooks Committee-men and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
manipulation Richard Harris Barham	Why, you'll cut up a jackass with Alderman...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Molony’s Lament William Makepeace Thackeray	There's Alderman Toad and his lady, 'Twas they gave the Clart and the Poort, And the poine-apples, turbots,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Mr. Barney Maguire's Account of The Coronation Richard Harris Barham	With Alderman Harmer, and that swate charmer, The famale heiress, Miss Anjâ-ly...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Officer Brady, The Modern Recruit Robert William Chambers	I Sez Alderman Grady To Officer Brady:...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Taking A Bite Out of the Big Apple Clarence Allan Ebert	When the alderman’s limo stopped he kicked his Madison Avenue wingtips up my ass and quipped, “Don’t you ever,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Artist and the Alderman Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis	' 'Bricks and mortar,' said the alderman, 'Bring in more...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Hidden City Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis	For an alderman had spoken, Who had known the ropes long since, And he said, 'Where are them sticks an' rag We...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Idolators Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis	there forth, consumed with wrath, an unctuous alderman; And, standing out before the Throne, he pompously began (In life he built a church, and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Menu Thomas Bailey Aldrich	A salad fit for aldermen (When alderman, alas, the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Metaphysical Sectarian Samuel Butler	And that a Lord may be an Owl; A Calf an Alderman, a Goose a Justice, And Rooks Committee-men and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Shore of Loch Erne Brian Clifton	the former Kingdom of Fermannah, the alderman eyed each grain of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Task: Book I. -- The Sofa William Cowper	these, some say, An Alderman of Cripplegate contrived, And some ascribe the invention to a priest Burly and big and studious...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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