        item: #1 of 19
          id: 11979
      author: Cowper, William
       title: The Diverting History of John Gilpin Showing How He Went Farther Than He Intended, and Came Safe Home Again
        date: None
       words: 1925
      flesch: 88
     summary: Proofreading Team The Diverting History of John Gilpin One of R. Caldecott's Picture Books 1878 [Illustration: The Diverting History of John Gilpin]
    keywords: caldecott; gilpin; illustration; john
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        item: #2 of 19
          id: 13646
      author: Lear, Edward
       title: A Book of Nonsense
        date: None
       words: 3684
      flesch: 79
     summary: Till a great bit of muffin, on which he was stuffing, Choked that horrid Old Man of Calcutta. [Illustration] There was an Old Man of Corfu, Who never knew what he should do; So he rushed up and down, till the sun made him brown, That bewildered Old Man of Corfu.
    keywords: illustration; lady; man; nose; person
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        item: #3 of 19
          id: 13647
      author: Lear, Edward
       title: Nonsense Songs
        date: None
       words: 11527
      flesch: 84
     summary: [Illustration] After sailing on calmly for several more days, they came to another country, where they were much pleased and surprised to see a countless multitude of white Mice with red eyes, all sitting in a great circle, slowly eating custard-pudding with the most satisfactory and polite demeanor. [Illustration] So remarkable a sight, of course, impressed the four children very deeply; and they returned immediately to their boat with a strong sense of undeveloped asthma and a great appetite.
    keywords: blue; boat; chapter; end; fly; green; illustration; legs; little; round; sea; sieve; tea; wangle; water
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        item: #4 of 19
          id: 13648
      author: Lear, Edward
       title: More Nonsense
        date: None
       words: 4632
      flesch: 74
     summary: [Illustration] There was an old person of Bromley, Whose ways were not cheerful or comely; He sate in the dust, eating spiders and crust, That unpleasing old person of Bromley. [Illustration] There was an old person of Slough, Who danced at the end of a bough; But they said, If you sneeze, you might damage the trees, You imprudent old person of Slough.
    keywords: head; illustration; lady; man; nonsense; people; person; rhymes; sate
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        item: #5 of 19
          id: 13649
      author: Lear, Edward
       title: Laughable Lyrics
        date: None
       words: 5803
      flesch: 91
     summary: Said he who caught the Muffin to him who caught the Mouse,-- This happens just in time! And what can we expect if we haven't any dinner, But to lose our teeth and eyelashes and keep on growing thinner? Said he who caught the Mouse to him who caught the Muffin,-- We might cook this little Mouse, if we only had some Stuffin'!
    keywords: akond; bonghy; dong; illustration; night; papa; swat; toes; wangle
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        item: #6 of 19
          id: 13650
      author: Lear, Edward
       title: Nonsense Books
        date: None
       words: 29853
      flesch: 81
     summary: Comment, with illustrations, upon Mr. Lear's use of the following words: Runcible, propitious, dolomphious, borascible, fizzgiggious, himmeltanious, tumble-dum-down, spongetaneous. [Illustration] After sailing on calmly for several more days, they came to another country, where they were much pleased and surprised to see a countless multitude of white Mice with red eyes, all sitting in a great circle, slowly eating custard-pudding with the most satisfactory and polite demeanor.
    keywords: akond; blue; boat; bonghy; book; children; day; dong; end; green; hat; head; illustration; lady; lear; legs; little; man; night; nonsense; nose; papa; person; quangle; round; sate; sea; swat; tea; time; tree; wangle; water
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        item: #7 of 19
          id: 14706
      author: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
       title: Greybeards at Play: Literature and Art for Old Gentlemen
        date: None
       words: 1746
      flesch: 88
     summary: [Illustration] Then on--to play one-fingered tunes Upon my aunt's piano. Then all was dark, lawless, and lost: I heard great devilish wings: I knew that Art had won, and snapt The Covenant of Things.
    keywords: illustration; love; sea; things; world
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        item: #8 of 19
          id: 15370
      author: Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck)
       title: Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs
        date: None
       words: 23822
      flesch: 84
     summary: A Recipe The First Lord's Song When a Merry Maiden Marries The Suicide's Grave He and She The Lord Chancellor's Song Willow Waly The Usher's Charge King Goodheart The Tangled Skein Girl Graduates The Ape and the Lady Sans Souci The British Tar The Coming Bye and Bye The Sorcerer's Song Speculation The Duke of Plaza-Toro The Reward of Merit When I First Put This Uniform On Said I to Myself, Said I The Family Fool The Philosophic Pill The Contemplative Sentry Sorry Her Lot The Judge's Song True Diffidence The Highly Respectable Gondolier Don't Forget The Darned Mounseer The Humane Mikado The House of Peers The Æsthete Proper Pride The Baffled Grumbler The Working Monarch The Rover's Apology Would You Know The Magnet and the Churn Braid the Raven Hair Is Life a Boon? And pretty nigh all o' the crew was drowned (There was seventy-seven o' soul), And only ten of the _Nancy's_ men Said 'Here!'
    keywords: bishop; brown; captain; cloth; day; days; engravings; eyes; face; general; half; hand; head; heart; henry; illustrations; john; kind; king; lady; life; long; lord; love; maiden; man; men; merry; mind; queen; rev; set; sir; tell; thought; titwillow; way; willow; world; young
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        item: #9 of 19
          id: 17117
      author: Goldsmith, Oliver
       title: An Elegy on the Glory of Her Sex, Mrs. Mary Blaize
        date: None
       words: 677
      flesch: 74
     summary: [Illustration (drawing, pic13trans.gif)] And never follow'd wicked ways-- [Illustration (drawing, pic14trans.gif)] _ [Illustration (drawing, pic08trans.gif)]
    keywords: drawing; illustration
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        item: #10 of 19
          id: 20113
      author: Lear, Edward
       title: Nonsense Drolleries The Owl & The Pussy-Cat—The Duck & The Kangaroo.
        date: None
       words: 800
      flesch: 89
     summary: [Illustration] WITH Original Illustrations BY WILLIAM FOSTER LONDON & NEW YORK FREDERICK WARNE AND CO. 1889 _ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. [Illustration] Please give me a ride on your back! Said the Duck to the Kangaroo.
    keywords: illustration; kangaroo
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        item: #11 of 19
          id: 35051
      author: Graham, Harry
       title: Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes
        date: None
       words: 3539
      flesch: 87
     summary: And, what makes it ten times worse, All the toast was burned _with_ nurse. Second impression, December, 1902_ Dedicated to P. P. (_Qui connait son sourire a connu le parfait._) I NEED no Comments of the Press, No critic's cursory caress,
    keywords: baby; children; course; hand; illustration; john; life
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        item: #12 of 19
          id: 35059
      author: Graham, Harry
       title: Familiar Faces
        date: None
       words: 8708
      flesch: 78
     summary: That bull-necked youth, with fractured tooth, Discussing Plato with his neighbour, Returned to-day from Holloway, And eighteen months' hard labour; He's _such_ a gentleman, I think, --Or would be, if he didn't drink. Author of Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes, Misrepresentative Men, Misrepresentative Women, etc., etc._ ILLUSTRATED BY TOM HALL
    keywords: author; baritone; day; dentist; ev'ry; friends; hair; hand; heart; illustration; man; men; mouth; people; public; tho; thou; tis; world
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        item: #13 of 19
          id: 36543
      author: Graham, Harry
       title: The Motley Muse (Rhymes for the Times)
        date: None
       words: 13075
      flesch: 76
     summary: The smuts upon your noses, Come, follow me to Dover Street Where, any moment, we may meet Figures as fragrant and as sweet As new-mown hay or roses, Tripping along the primrose path That leads each member to 'The Bath'! Ye breadwinners, who seek in vain To keep your features free from stain, When in some matutinal train To town you daily rush up, Observe the cleanly creatures, please, Who in this club recline at ease! Existence for such men as these Is one long 'Wash and Brush Up'! To Mr. Gillett! CANTO IV THE GARRICK If for solitude you feel a partiality, If you chance to be unsociably inclined, If (like other men of British nationality)
    keywords: '--the; air; brown; canto; christmas; club; daily; day; days; dear; dog; ev'ry; fellow; house; illustration; jam; lord; man; members; men; new; play; police; public; round; season; spring; things; time; tis; vote; way
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        item: #14 of 19
          id: 36702
      author: Graham, Harry
       title: Verse and Worse
        date: None
       words: 20803
      flesch: 86
     summary: The Century Magazine_, _ The Outlook_, and _Golf_ respectively.
    keywords: 8vo; arnold; author; book; country; course; day; edward; ev'ry; good; great; hand; head; homes; horse; know; life; london; look; love; man; men; moral; mother; net; new; pen; people; place; rhymes; street; things; time; tis; way; work; world
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        item: #15 of 19
          id: 40134
      author: Belloc, Hilaire
       title: A Moral Alphabet
        date: None
       words: 2587
      flesch: 84
     summary: I doubt it.... V for [Illustration] the unobtrusive Volunteer, Who fills the Armies of the World with fear. MORAL. * * A MORAL ALPHABET by H. B. With Illustrations by B. B. Authors of The Bad Child's Book of Beasts More Beasts for Worse Children The Modern Traveller etc. London Edward Arnold 37 Bedford Street 1899 _DEDICATION.
    keywords: 4to; children; illustration; stands; youth
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        item: #16 of 19
          id: 45292
      author: Douglas, Alfred Bruce
       title: The Placid Pug, and Other Rhymes
        date: None
       words: 2822
      flesch: 60
     summary: [Illustration: 015] Grieved by decline of infant birth, Have drawn attention to the rabbit. [Illustration: 028] Makes him the laughing-stock of quadrupeds.= No weak attempt to carol like the Lark, `Fore-doomed to failure and to ridicule, Troubles his life; he does not wish to bark, `Has no desire to amble like a Mule.= Having no legs he does not try to walk, `But keeps contentedly his native crawl; Having no voice he does not strive to talk, `Much less to bellow or to caterwaul.= Mark the inevitably reached result:
    keywords: calm; illustration; life; lives; men; pug; rabbit; round
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        item: #17 of 19
          id: 49684
      author: Cholmondeley-Pennell, H. (Henry)
       title: Puck on Pegasus Fourth Edition
        date: None
       words: 14420
      flesch: 83
     summary: Time's up!--Again they battle; Again the strokes fly free; But Sayers' right arm--that arm of pride-- Now dangles pow'rless by his side, Plain for all eyes to see; And thro' that long and desp'rate shock-- Two mortal hours on the clock-- By sheer indomitable pluck With his _left hand_ fought he! Kirke's Memoirs_
    keywords: black; charley; day; dever; ev'ry; face; fire; hand; haw; heart; illustration; lady; life; look; lord; love; mail; man; night; north; pennell; puck; read; round; sir; tail; thee; thou; thro; thy; time; water; weep
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        item: #18 of 19
          id: 6652
      author: None
       title: The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe
        date: None
       words: 136616
      flesch: 83
     summary: I shall beg the ladies' pardon if I insert a few passages concerning her: and at the same time I assure them it is not to lesson those of the present age, who are possessed of the like laudable talents; for I will confess, that I know three in the city of Dublin, no way inferior to Xantippe, but that they have not as great men to work upon. Meanwhile, the Friar, whose head was turn'd By the laced coat, grew frisky too-- Look'd big--his former habits spurn'd-- And storm'd about as great men do-- Dealt much in pompous oaths and curses-- Said Damn you, often, or as bad-- Laid claim to other people's purses--
    keywords: age; alas; author; bear; beer; black; blue; book; bright; child; church; coat; cold; course; court; cry; cut; day; days; dead; dear; death; devil; doctor; dog; door; doubt; earth; english; ere; eyes; face; fair; fancy; far; fate; father; fear; feel; fellow; felt; fine; fire; footnote; form; friend; glass; god; good; grace; great; green; grew; hair; half; hand; happy; hath; head; heart; heaven; hold; home; hope; hour; house; james; john; jones; joy; kind; king; know; ladies; lady; land; late; law; leave; left; life; like; little; live; london; long; look; lord; lot; love; maid; majesty; man; mary; master; meet; men; mind; miss; money; mother; mrs; nature; nay; ne'er; ned; new; night; niversity; nose; o'er; pass; pay; pen; people; peter; place; play; poet; poor; pray; prince; public; punch; queen; quoth; red; rest; room; rose; round; royal; run; saw; set; sir; son; song; soul; spirit; street; tail; taste; tell; tender; thee; thet; things; think; thomas; thou; thought; till; time; tis; tom; tongue; town; truth; turn; vain; voice; water; way; whitbread; white; wife; william; wish; wit; woman; wonder; work; world; years; young; youth
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        item: #19 of 19
          id: 982
      author: Lear, Edward
       title: The Book of Nonsense
        date: None
       words: 3643
      flesch: 89
     summary: There was an Old Man of Vesuvius, Who studied the works of Vitruvius; When the flames burnt his book, To drinking he took, That morbid Old Man of Vesuvius. 57. There was an Old Man of Corfu, Who never knew what he should do; So he rushed up and down, Till the sun made him brown, That bewildered Old Man of Corfu.
    keywords: conduct; lady; man; nose; person
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