The Works of Thomas Hood...: Complete poetical worksDerby and Jackson, 1861 |
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... half surpassed her intellectual climb : She knew no more than the old Hill of Howth About that " Children of a larger growth , " Who notes proceedings of the F. R. S.'s ; Kit North , was just as strange to her as South , Except the ...
... half surpassed her intellectual climb : She knew no more than the old Hill of Howth About that " Children of a larger growth , " Who notes proceedings of the F. R. S.'s ; Kit North , was just as strange to her as South , Except the ...
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... half deaf only half discharged me committing me to the relay - box , as a juror in Waiting — and from which I was relieved only by his successor , Sir Thomas Denman , and to justify my dullness , I made even his stupendous voice to ...
... half deaf only half discharged me committing me to the relay - box , as a juror in Waiting — and from which I was relieved only by his successor , Sir Thomas Denman , and to justify my dullness , I made even his stupendous voice to ...
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... half - starved Rowley always said heigho , when he heard of gammon and spinach . Gray's days were ode - ious , and Gay's gaiety was fabulous . Falconer was shipwrecked . Homer was a blind beggar , and Pope raised a subscription for him ...
... half - starved Rowley always said heigho , when he heard of gammon and spinach . Gray's days were ode - ious , and Gay's gaiety was fabulous . Falconer was shipwrecked . Homer was a blind beggar , and Pope raised a subscription for him ...
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... half as plain . Your virtues would not rise an inch , Although your shape was two foot taller , And wisely you let others pinch Great waists and feet to make them smaller You never try to spare your hands From getting red by household ...
... half as plain . Your virtues would not rise an inch , Although your shape was two foot taller , And wisely you let others pinch Great waists and feet to make them smaller You never try to spare your hands From getting red by household ...
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... among the dead , And pick out which you like . " And soon she picked out Peter Stone , Half turned into a corse ; A cannon was his bolster , and His mattrass was a horse . " O Peter Stone , O Peter Stone , Lord 78 A WATERLOO BALLAD .
... among the dead , And pick out which you like . " And soon she picked out Peter Stone , Half turned into a corse ; A cannon was his bolster , and His mattrass was a horse . " O Peter Stone , O Peter Stone , Lord 78 A WATERLOO BALLAD .
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Page 400 - The world recedes; it disappears! Heaven opens on my eyes! my ears With sounds seraphic ring: Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O Grave! where is thy victory? O Death! where is thy sting?
Page 335 - Those joyous hours are past away ; And many a heart, that then was gay, Within the tomb now darkly dwells, And hears no more those evening bells. And so 'twill be when I am gone ; That tuneful peal will still ring on, While...
Page 347 - ... such as come forth with the dawn, or somewhat earlier, with ,their little professional notes sounding like the peep peep of a young sparrow...
Page 354 - He has no children. All my pretty ones? Did you say all? O hell-kite! All? What, all my pretty chickens and their dam At one fell swoop?
Page 486 - ... the only thing of the world that was left yet undone, whereby a notable mind might be made famous and fortunate.
Page 136 - This Swithin was a saint, I trow, And Winchester's bishop also, Who in his time did many a feat, As Popish legends do repeat ; A woman, having broke her eggs, By stumbling at another.s legs, For which she made a woful cry, St.
Page 181 - Lawk help me, I don't know where to look, or to run, if I only knew which way — A Child as is lost about London streets, and especially Seven Dials, is a needle in a 'bottle of hay. I am all in a quiver — get out of my sight, do, you wretch, you little Kitty M'Nab!
Page 376 - Who in the gutter caterwauls, squalls, mauls Some feline foe, and screams in shrill ill-will.
Page 292 - Never go to France, Unless you know the lingo ; If you do, like me, You will repent, by jingo ; Staring like a fool, And silent as a mummy, There I stood alone, A nation with a dummy ! "Aliens! Vlte! Vite ! Vite! Vito!" " No, Mounseer, not veat — thems whoats !' OUR VILLAGE. "Sireet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain.
Page 315 - I'LL tell you a story that's not in Tom Moore : — Young Love likes to knock at a pretty girl's door : So he called upon Lucy — 'twas just ten o'clock — Like a spruce single man, with a smart double knock. Now, a handmaid, whatever her fingers be at, Will run like a puss when she hears a rat-tat- : So Lucy ran up — and in two seconds more Had questioned the stranger and answered the door.