The Works of Thomas Hood, Band 6Putnam, 1864 |
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amongst Animal Magnetism answer asked Blackwood's Magazine body-snatching boys Bruther called Catechism Charles Lamb Comic common course cried dear Doctor Shackle door doubt eyes face fancy faver feel fellow female fire gentleman give godfathers green hand head heart honor Hood hope housis human Jack Kezia Lady Lamb laudanum letter literary Lockhart London London Magazine look Lord ma'am Magazine master mean mind morning nature never night nurse once paper parish party perhaps persons Peter Bell poor Postle present Prideaux replied my father Scott seemed Shopm short Sir Walter Scott sleep spirit Squire suppose sure surgery there's thing THOMAS HOOD thought tion turn twins Uncle Rumbold verry voice walk whilst whole window wish witch woman Workhouse write young yure
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Seite 346 - The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Seite 331 - It is good to be merry and wise, It is good to be honest and true, It is good to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new.
Seite 347 - He gained from heaven ('twas all he wished) a friend. No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose) The bosom of his father and his God.
Seite 347 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath and near his favorite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; "The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou can'st read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Seite 495 - Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves and nobler cares — The poets who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays...
Seite 342 - The weird sisters, hand in hand, Posters of the sea and land, Thus do go about, about: Thrice to thine, and thrice to mine, And thrice again, to make up nine.
Seite 362 - Sir Anthony. I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning. I don't think so much learning becomes a young woman. For instance, I would never let her meddle with Greek, or Hebrew, or algebra, or simony, or fluxions, or paradoxes, or such inflammatory branches of learning; neither would it be necessary for her to handle any of your mathematical, astronomical, diabolical instruments.
Seite 358 - ... of the following words of Sir Walter Scott, much better than the career of their illustrious author. " There is no man known at all in literature, who may not have more to tell of his private life than I have. I have surmounted no difficulties either of birth or education, nor have I been favored by any particular advantages, and my life has been as void of incidents of importance as that of the weary knife-grinder — ' Story ! bless you, I have none to tell, sir.
Seite 410 - If he was intolerant of anything, it was of Intolerance. He would have been (if the foundation had existed, save in the fiction of Rabelais) of the Utopian order of Thelemites, where each man under scriptural warrant did what seemed good in his own eyes. He hated evil-speaking, carping, and petty scandal.
Seite 435 - Thrice happy he whose name has been well spelt In the despatch : I knew a man whose loss Was printed Grove, although his name was Grose.