Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-05-15
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tbaI i their chief component, them from
becoming stale read them as often may
Charles, eating ancient cheese, did say,
Like Samson my thousands slay; i"
81 VOW" quo;h David, $50 you do,
And with the self same weapon too.
Byron wrote the following on England, and in
many respects it is applicable now as when
written:
The world is a bundle of hay,
Mankind are the asses who pull
Each tug it different way,
And the greatest of all is John Bull
The following written on glass with diamond
pencil belonging to Lord Stanhope conveys a
delicate and merited compliment IN few words:
Accept miracle in place of wit
See two dull lines by Stanhope'S pencil writ
John g. SAKE is responsible for this on an Ill
read lawyer:
An.idle attorney besought his brother
For something to read-Some novel or other
That was really fresh and new.
Take Gritty replied his legal friend;
There IS not book that | could lend
Would prove more Hooet to you.
Written after going to law
The law they saYgreat natures chain connects,
That causes ever must produce effects
In me behold reversed great natures laws,
All my effects lost by single cause
Tom Hood wrote the following, which requires
no explanation
After such years of dissension and strife,
Some wonder that Peter should weep for his wife,
But his tears on her grave nothing surprising
He's laying her dust for fear OF its rising.
Swans sing before they die, 'twere no bad thing
Should certain persons die before they sing
DR.. Dodd, an English writer of some celebrity
was the author of the above. We recollect, says
the Carpet Bag, hearing wag of school-boy
who called upon to . declaim, - recite the
above after a lesson in vocal music, in
which the whole school made to join
To add to the interest, - the principal of the
school had invited the teacher of music to remain
few moments to hear the declarations. The
scholars roared, the master frowned, and thunder
ed out, F., three cracks and stop fer SCHOOL,
SAKE, among his other witicisms, says this, of
woman's will
Men, dying make their wills,
But wives escape work so sad
Why shoald they make what, all their lives,
The gentle DANES have had.
One more, by Hood, a royal demise:
How monarchs die is easily explained,
And thus it might upon their tomb be chiseled:
As long as George the Fourth could reign he
reigned,
And then he mlZZled.
The following was published in England, in
1If4, ana dUufeSSGu W Tile b1illlAliG
You've sent a rod to Massachusetts,
In hope tn Americans will buss it,
But much fear for Britain's sake,
That this same rod viii prove snake.
The following ION Matrimony was written
long ago, and would seem TO show that the g in
stituton'' was not so blissful it is now thought
to be
Tom praised his friend who changed his state,
For binding fast himself to Kate,
In union divine;
''Wedlocks the end of life, - he cried;
''Too true, alas said Jack, and sighed,
"'Tw be the end of mine"
The following is by Tom Moore, and is very
pretty:
Do you, said Fanny, . other day,
In earnest love me you say?
Or are those tender words applied
AlikeHto fifty girls beside
Dear, cruel girl cried |, forbear;
For by those eyes-those liPs-I swear
She stopped me as the oath took.
Aud cried you've swore, now kiss the book