The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood: With Some Account of the Author. In Four Volumes, Volume 4Little, Brown, 1863 |
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Page 84
... Hunks — it seemed a fit retort Of justice on his grinding ways - Possessed a grinder of the sort , That troubled all his latter days . The best of friends fall out , and so His teeth had done some years ago , Save some old stumps with ...
... Hunks — it seemed a fit retort Of justice on his grinding ways - Possessed a grinder of the sort , That troubled all his latter days . The best of friends fall out , and so His teeth had done some years ago , Save some old stumps with ...
Page 85
... Hunks was loth To pay the fee , and quite begrudged To lose his tooth and money both ; In fact , a dentist and the wheel Of Fortune are a kindred cast , For after all is drawn , you feel Its paying for a blank at last ; So Hunks went on ...
... Hunks was loth To pay the fee , and quite begrudged To lose his tooth and money both ; In fact , a dentist and the wheel Of Fortune are a kindred cast , For after all is drawn , you feel Its paying for a blank at last ; So Hunks went on ...
Page 86
... so many tender ties ; One chord seemed wrenching at his heart , And two were tugging at his eyes ; “ Bone of his bone , " he felt of course , As husbands do in such divorce ; At last the fangs gave way a little , Hunks 86 A TRUE STORY .
... so many tender ties ; One chord seemed wrenching at his heart , And two were tugging at his eyes ; “ Bone of his bone , " he felt of course , As husbands do in such divorce ; At last the fangs gave way a little , Hunks 86 A TRUE STORY .
Page 87
... Hunks gave his head a backward jerk , And lo ! the cause of all this work , Went - where it used to send his victual ! The monstrous pain of this proceeding Had not so numbed his miser wit , But in this slip he saw a hit To save , at ...
... Hunks gave his head a backward jerk , And lo ! the cause of all this work , Went - where it used to send his victual ! The monstrous pain of this proceeding Had not so numbed his miser wit , But in this slip he saw a hit To save , at ...
Page 88
... Hunks had not whistled half a mile , When , planted right against a stile , There stood his foeman , Mike Mahoney , A vagrant reaper , Irish - born , That helped to reap our miser's corn , But had not helped to reap his money , A fact ...
... Hunks had not whistled half a mile , When , planted right against a stile , There stood his foeman , Mike Mahoney , A vagrant reaper , Irish - born , That helped to reap our miser's corn , But had not helped to reap his money , A fact ...
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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.