The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood: With Some Account of the Author. In Four Volumes, Volume 4Little, Brown, 1863 |
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... And pray stick on a most portentous tail ! " Farewell ! I hope you are in health and gay ; For me , I never felt so well and merry As for the bran - new idol of the day , Monkey or man , I am indifferent very ! Nor LOVE AND LUNACY . 15.
... And pray stick on a most portentous tail ! " Farewell ! I hope you are in health and gay ; For me , I never felt so well and merry As for the bran - new idol of the day , Monkey or man , I am indifferent very ! Nor LOVE AND LUNACY . 15.
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... Farewell again ! it is farewell forever ! Before your lamp of night be lit up thrice , I shall be sailing , haply , for Swan River , Jamaica , or the Indian land of rice , Or Boothia Felix - happy clime of ice ! For Trebizond , or ...
... Farewell again ! it is farewell forever ! Before your lamp of night be lit up thrice , I shall be sailing , haply , for Swan River , Jamaica , or the Indian land of rice , Or Boothia Felix - happy clime of ice ! For Trebizond , or ...
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... Farewell ! and if forever , fare thee well ! As wrote another of my fellow - martyrs : I ask no sexton for his passing - bell , I do not ask your tear - drops to be starters , However I may die , transfixed by Tartars , By Cobras ...
... Farewell ! and if forever , fare thee well ! As wrote another of my fellow - martyrs : I ask no sexton for his passing - bell , I do not ask your tear - drops to be starters , However I may die , transfixed by Tartars , By Cobras ...
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... farewell , till Time's eternal sickle Shall reap our lives ; in this , or foreign land Some other may be found for truth to stickle Almost as fair and not so false and fickle ! " And there he ceased : as truly it was time , For of the ...
... farewell , till Time's eternal sickle Shall reap our lives ; in this , or foreign land Some other may be found for truth to stickle Almost as fair and not so false and fickle ! " And there he ceased : as truly it was time , For of the ...
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... farewell must be taken , Good - by to the poetic Hogg ! The philosophic Bacon ! Day after day my lessons fade , My intellect gets muddy ; A trough I have , and not a desk , A sty — and not a study ! Another little month , and then My ...
... farewell must be taken , Good - by to the poetic Hogg ! The philosophic Bacon ! Day after day my lessons fade , My intellect gets muddy ; A trough I have , and not a desk , A sty — and not a study ! Another little month , and then My ...
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Page 208 - element,' but the word is over-worn. \Exit. Vio. This fellow is wise enough to play the fool ; And to do that well craves a kind of wit : He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye.
Page 102 - SWEET MEMORY, wafted by thy gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail, To view the fairy-haunts of long-lost hours, Blest with far greener shades, far fresher flowers.
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Page 167 - Com — com — I say ! You go away ! Into two parts my head you split — My fiddle cannot hear himself a bit, When I do play — You have no bis'ness in a place so still ! Can you not come another day?" Says he—
Page 47 - TO THE REVIEWERS. What is a modern Poet's fate ? To write his thoughts upon a slate ; — The Critic spits on what is done, — Gives it a wipe, — and all is gone.
Page 262 - Kingdom, or that he ought not to enjoy the same, here is his Champion, who saith that he lieth, and is a false traitor, being ready in person to combat with him, and in this quarrel will adventure his life against him on what day soever he shall be appointed.