The Works of Thomas Hood, Volume 3Putnam, 1864 - English poetry |
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... sort of literary copartnership , to versify some of the tales of Boccaccio . The accomplishment of this plan was prevented for a time by other engagements , and finally frustrated by death . The Pot of Basil was the only story completed ...
... sort of literary copartnership , to versify some of the tales of Boccaccio . The accomplishment of this plan was prevented for a time by other engagements , and finally frustrated by death . The Pot of Basil was the only story completed ...
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... sort of London fog , opaque and dense , Hung over verbs , nouns , genitives , and datives . In vain she pored and pored , with eyes intense , As well is known to oyster - operatives , Mere looking at the shells won't open natives . Yet ...
... sort of London fog , opaque and dense , Hung over verbs , nouns , genitives , and datives . In vain she pored and pored , with eyes intense , As well is known to oyster - operatives , Mere looking at the shells won't open natives . Yet ...
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... sort of air of the swell mob ; I'm sure when he has come of afternoons To tea , I've often thought - I'll watch my spoons ! " " The spoons ! " cried Ellen , almost with a scream , " Oh cruel - false as cruel - and unjust ! He that once ...
... sort of air of the swell mob ; I'm sure when he has come of afternoons To tea , I've often thought - I'll watch my spoons ! " " The spoons ! " cried Ellen , almost with a scream , " Oh cruel - false as cruel - and unjust ! He that once ...
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... by the heavy wagon , And felt an impulse to turn back again , Oh , that he ne'er had quitted the Old Dragon ! Then came a sort of longing for a flagon . His tongue and palate seemed so parched with drouth- The 40 LOVE AND LUNACY .
... by the heavy wagon , And felt an impulse to turn back again , Oh , that he ne'er had quitted the Old Dragon ! Then came a sort of longing for a flagon . His tongue and palate seemed so parched with drouth- The 40 LOVE AND LUNACY .
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... sort , Just like a sea - gull's wheeling round a rock- 66 Speak ! -Ellen ! -is your sight indeed so short ! The Moon ! -Brute ! savage that I am , and block ! The Moon ! ( O , ye Romantics , what a shock ! ) Why that's the new ...
... sort , Just like a sea - gull's wheeling round a rock- 66 Speak ! -Ellen ! -is your sight indeed so short ! The Moon ! -Brute ! savage that I am , and block ! The Moon ! ( O , ye Romantics , what a shock ! ) Why that's the new ...
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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 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 376 - EVEN is come ; and from the dark Park, hark, The signal of the setting sun — one gun ! And six is sounding from the chime, prime time To go and see the Drury-Lane Dane slain, — Or hear Othello's jealous doubt spout out, — Or Macbeth raving at that shade-made blade, Denying to his frantic clutch much touch...
Page 482 - 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 the Third...
Page 487 - I'm so plump the reason I tell — Who leads a good life is sure to live well. What baron or squire, Or knight of the shire, Lives half so well as a holy friar...
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 385 - Nuisance bellowed, till all patience lost, Down came Miss Frost, Expostulating at her open door — " Peace, monster, peace ! Where is the New Police ? I vow I cannot work, or read, or pray, Don't stand there bawling, fellow, don't ! You really send my serious thoughts astray, Do — there 'sa dear good man — do, go away.
Page 296 - OUR village, that's to say not Miss Mitford's village, but our village of Bullock Smithy, Is come into by an avenue of trees, three oak pollards, two elders, and a withy ; And in the middle, there's a green of about not exceeding an acre and a half ; It's common to all, and fed off by nineteen cows, six ponies, three horses, five asses, two foals, seven pigs, and a calf! Besides a pond in the middle, as is held by a similar sort of common law lease...
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 315 - Had question'd the stranger and answer'd the door. The meeting was bliss ; but the parting was woe ; For the moment will come when such comers must go; So she kiss'd him, and whisper'd — poor innocent thing— " The next time you come, love, pray come with a ring.