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5 Quotes for 'Charles Stuart Calverley' in the Database.
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Charles Stuart Calverley Quotes
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The farmer's daughter hath soft brown hair
(Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese)
And I met with a ballad, I can't say where,
That wholly consisted of lines like these.
Topic: Ballads
Source: Ballad
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I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that
grovel--
Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls.
Topic: Home
Source: In the Gloaming
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To sit, happy married lovers; Phillis trifling with a plover's
Egg, while Corydon uncovers with a grace the Sally Lunn,
Or dissects the luck pheasant--that, I think, were passing
pleasant
As I sit along at present, dreaming darkly of a dun.
Topic: Matrimony
Source: In the Gloaming, (parody on Mrs. Browning)
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I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That
is marvelous. It must be very inexpensive.
Topic: Matrimony
Source: In the Gloaming, (parody on Mrs. Browning)
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I can not sing the old songs now!
It is not that I deem them low,
'Tis that I can't remember how
They go.
Topic: Songs
Source: Changed
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