The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood: With Some Account of the Author. In Four Volumes, Volume 4Little, Brown, 1863 |
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... Pocket thy fists . Nay , love , if you so thin Your beard , you'll want a wig upon your chin ! " But not her words , or even her tears , could slack The quicklime of his rage , that hotter grew : He called his slaves to bring an ample ...
... Pocket thy fists . Nay , love , if you so thin Your beard , you'll want a wig upon your chin ! " But not her words , or even her tears , could slack The quicklime of his rage , that hotter grew : He called his slaves to bring an ample ...
Page 86
... pockets , And down he sat prepared to learn How teeth are charmed to quit their sockets . Those who have felt such operations , Alone can guess the sort of ache , When his old tooth began to break The thread of old associations ; It ...
... pockets , And down he sat prepared to learn How teeth are charmed to quit their sockets . Those who have felt such operations , Alone can guess the sort of ache , When his old tooth began to break The thread of old associations ; It ...
Page 123
... pocket ! - take care of your pocket ! Don't wash or be shaved go like hairy wild men UP THE RHINE . 123 Up the Rhine To *****
... pocket ! - take care of your pocket ! Don't wash or be shaved go like hairy wild men UP THE RHINE . 123 Up the Rhine To *****
Page 124
... pocket ! take care of your pocket ! You'll sleep at great inns , in the smallest of beds , Find charges as apt to mount up as a rocket , With thirty per cent . as a tax on your heads , Take care of your pocket ! —take care of your ...
... pocket ! take care of your pocket ! You'll sleep at great inns , in the smallest of beds , Find charges as apt to mount up as a rocket , With thirty per cent . as a tax on your heads , Take care of your pocket ! —take care of your ...
Page 125
... pocket ! take care of your pocket ! You'll stop at Coblence , with its beautiful views , But make no long stay with your money to stock it , Where Jews are all Germans , and Germans all Jews , Take care of your pocket ! — take care of ...
... pocket ! take care of your pocket ! You'll stop at Coblence , with its beautiful views , But make no long stay with your money to stock it , Where Jews are all Germans , and Germans all Jews , Take care of your pocket ! — take care of ...
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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.
Page 262 - If any person, of what degree soever, high or low, shall deny or gainsay our Sovereign Lord King George the Fourth of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, son and next heir to our Sovereign Lord King George...
Page 35 - 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 91 - I'll let thee out, cost what it will ; so I turned about the cage to get the door. It was twisted and double twisted so fast with wire, there was no getting it open without pulling the cage to pieces. I took both hands to it. The bird flew to the place where I was attempting his deliverance, and thrusting his head through the trellis...
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.