The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood: With a Memoir, Volume 3Dodd, Mead, 1867 |
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able to sing APOLLONIUS beast birds bliss body-snatcher bone breath brother brow Bunce Burn cold Corinth cried CURIO dear death Doctor Doctor Jones DOMUS dream drink eyes face flowers fond of skipping GALLO give gone Gretna Green hand happy hard hath head heart Heigh-ho hope horse Huggins hunt Jack John Huggins JULIUS Lady LAMIA Leather Lane live London Stone look Lord Durham's return LYCIUS MAGOG master MERCUTIUS Miss morning Muse ne'er never night nine nose numbers o'er once pass PICUS poor round Sambo seemed sing Hullahbaloo song soon sort soul sure sweet talk tears tell thee There's thing THOMAS HOOD thou thought tongue took turn united family voice walk weep Whigs William dear wine wing wish Zounds
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Page 344 - I wish you'd go to Mr P. And save me such a ride; I don't half like the outside place, They've took for my inside. The cock it crows - I must be gone! My William, we must part! But I'll be yours in death, altho* Sir Astley has my heart.
Page 323 - THE SURPLICE QUESTION. BY A BENEDICT. A VERY pretty public stir Is making, down at Exeter, About the surplice fashion : And many bitter words and rude Have been bestowed upon the feud, And much unchristian passion. For me, I neither know nor care Whether a Parson ought to wear A black dress or a white dress ; Fill'd with a trouble of my own, — A Wife who preaches in her gown, And lectures in her night-dress I THE EPPING HUNT.
Page 343 - TWAS in the middle of the night, To sleep young William tried, When Mary's ghost came stealing in, And stood at his bed-side.
Page 232 - There are a sort of men, whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond; And do a wilful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit; As who should say, ' I am Sir Oracle, And, when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!
Page 344 - Sir Astley has my heart. Don't go to weep upon my grave, And think that there I be ; They haven't left an atom there Of my anatomie.
Page 343 - I went to my long home, I didn't stay long in it. The body-snatchers they have come, And made a snatch at me; It's very hard them kind of men Won't let a body be! You thought that I was buried deep, Quite decent like and chary, But from her grave in Mary-bone, They've come and boned your Mary.
Page 151 - m not a single man. Shut out from love, denied a dove, Forbidden bow and dart, Without a groan to call my own, With neither hand nor heart, To hymen vowed, and not allowed To flirt e'en with your fan, Here end, as just a friend, I must, — I 'm not a single man.
Page 172 - I will shortly pay you a second visit. But my friends, I fancy, by this time, wonder at my stay ; so let me have the money immediately." Trulliber then put on a stern look, and cried out, " Thou dost not intend to rob me? " At which the wife, bursting into tears, fell on her knees and roared out, "O dear sir!
Page 68 - Are we not here now, continued the corporal (striking the end of his stick perpendicularly upon the floor, so as to give an idea of health and stability) ; — and are we not...
Page 151 - I'm not a single man. Upon your cheek I may not speak, Nor on your lip be warm, I must be wise about your eyes, And formal with your form; Of all that sort of thing, in short, On TH Bayly's plan, I must not twine a single line — I'm not a single man.