 Destroying sight o'erwhelmed him quite, He sunk to rise no more. Still o'er his head, while Fate he braved, His whizzing water-pipe he waved ; " Whitford and Mitford, ply your pumps, You, Clutterbuck, come, stir your stumps, Why are you in such doleful...  The Analectic Magazine, to which is Added, an Appendix of Official Naval ... - Page 1731813Full view - About this book
 | American wit and humor - 1859 - 338 pages
...braved, His whizzing water-pipe he waved ; " Whitford and Mitford, ply your pumps, You, Clutterbuck, come, stir your stumps, Why are you in such doleful...'od rot 'em !" Were the last words of Higginbottom. \ THE REVIVAL. Peace to his soul! new prospects bloom, And toil rebuilds what fires consume ; Eat we... | |
 | James Smith - English poetry - 1860 - 460 pages
...braved, His whizzing water-pipe he waved ; " Whitford and Mitford, ply your pumps, "You, Clutterbuck, come, stir your stumps, " Why are you in such doleful...'od rot 'em !" Were the last words of Higginbottom. ®l)c Secicol. Peace to his soul ! new prospects bloom, And toil rebuilds what fires consume ! Eat... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1860 - 594 pages
...braved, His whizzing water-pipe he waved ; ' Whitford and Mitford, ply your pumps, You, Clutterbuck, come stir your stumps, Why are you in such doleful...bumps! What are they fear'd on ? fools! 'od rot 'em I' Were the last words of Higginbottom." Horace Smith had a peculiar taste for rendering into verse... | |
 | English poetry - 1861 - 304 pages
...Whitford and Mitford, ply your pumps ; You, Clutterbuek, eome. stir your stumps, Why are you in sueh doleful dumps ? A fireman, and afraid of bumps ! What...on ? fools ! 'od rot 'em !' Were the last words of IIigginbottom. 2, 1:i THE VENTRILOQUIST. SIR WAI.TEI I SrOTT. i F yore, in Old England, it was not... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1869 - 810 pages
...water-pipe he waved : "Whitford and Mitford, ply your pumps ;» You, Clutterbuck, come, stir your stump*; Why are you in such doleful dumps? A fireman, and afraid of bumps! What are they fearM on? fools — 'od rot 'em!" Were the last words of Higginbottom.1 * * e prose addresses, the... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1871 - 910 pages
...braved, His whizzing water-pipe he waved : " Whitford and Mitford, ply your pumps, You, Clutterbuck, come stir your stumps, Why are you in such doleful...'od rot "em ! " Were the last words of Higginbottom. There is another work of similar complexion with the one just recorded ; which, I suspect, is but little... | |
 | James Smith, Horace Smith - English poetry - 1871 - 444 pages
...braved, His whizzing water-pipe he waved; " Whitford and Mitford, ply your pumps, "You, Clutterbuck, come, stir your stumps, " Why are you in such doleful...'od rot 'em !" Were the last words of Higginbottom. ffilje tlctritwl. Peace to his soul ! new prospects bloom, And toil rebuilds what fires consume ! Eat... | |
 | Robert Shelton Mackenzie - Authors, Scottish - 1871 - 520 pages
...braved, His whirling water-pipe he waved: ' Whitford and Mittbrd, ply your pumps ! You, Clutterbuck, come, stir your stumps ! Why are you in such doleful...dumps ? A fireman, and afraid of bumps ! What are they feared on ? Fools ! 'od rot 'em ! ' Were the last words of Higginbottom." A very striking scene in... | |
 | Schools - 1875 - 610 pages
...Waterloo," by Sir W. Scott, is not to our thinking a very suitable piece. There is a good deal of the " What are they fear'd on ? fools ! 'od rot 'em ! " Were the last words of Higginbottom style, as Horace Smith so well caricatured it, and such " sounding brass and tinkling cymbals" is not... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - American poetry - 1873 - 782 pages
...Clntterbuek, come, stir your stumps ; CG* Why are you in Buch doleful dumps ? A fireman, and afraid of bumpa ! A nation here I pity and admire, ; Whom noblest sentiments of glory fire, Yet taught, b * * James and Horace Smith. — Aliout 1812. 1417.— THE UPAS IN MARYBONE LANE. A tree grew in Java,... | |
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