The Works of Thomas Hood: Comic and Serious, in Prose and Verse with All the Original Illustrations, Volumen6E. Moxon, 1871 |
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... hear no more speeches . The Confessor Landino , who heretofore had been unable to make any impression on her firmness , hereupon gave up all hope of prevailing over her quiet but constant spirit ; but as for the Grand Inquisitor , he ...
... hear no more speeches . The Confessor Landino , who heretofore had been unable to make any impression on her firmness , hereupon gave up all hope of prevailing over her quiet but constant spirit ; but as for the Grand Inquisitor , he ...
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... hear come from no bird , but from a human voice , which belongs to some unfortunate captive from my own dear country beyond the sea . I wonder not that you found it so touching , for that kind of melody belongs naturally to our clime ...
... hear come from no bird , but from a human voice , which belongs to some unfortunate captive from my own dear country beyond the sea . I wonder not that you found it so touching , for that kind of melody belongs naturally to our clime ...
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... hear his music , had a mind to enjoy it nearer ; so , sending a slave to fetch the gardener into an ante - chamber , which was separated from that of the ladies only by a silken curtain , Benetto was commanded to sing some of his best ...
... hear his music , had a mind to enjoy it nearer ; so , sending a slave to fetch the gardener into an ante - chamber , which was separated from that of the ladies only by a silken curtain , Benetto was commanded to sing some of his best ...
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... hear some lively tune : the songs I have heard hitherto , though very beautiful , were all of a melancholy cast ; and I am curious to know whether the genius of your music will admit also of comical expression . " " I can assure your ...
... hear some lively tune : the songs I have heard hitherto , though very beautiful , were all of a melancholy cast ; and I am curious to know whether the genius of your music will admit also of comical expression . " " I can assure your ...
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... hear one , " replied the Sultan ; whereupon an attendant was sent to convey this command to Benetto , who immediately struck up a very lively tune ; and , as he had good news to communicate , he sang with unbounded gaiety and spirit ...
... hear one , " replied the Sultan ; whereupon an attendant was sent to convey this command to Benetto , who immediately struck up a very lively tune ; and , as he had good news to communicate , he sang with unbounded gaiety and spirit ...
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Abendali amongst APOLLONIUS Athenæum bastinado began Benetto Bianca blue bones brother caliph called cast Cheapside Comic Annual Corinth Countess CURIO dead dear death Distress DOMUS door drink Eugene Aram eyes face fair farewell father feel friends GALLO gentlemen girl give hand hath head heard heart Hidalgo honour hope horse Huggins John Huggins JULIUS Julius Cæsar knew Kolmarr lady LAMIA Landino laughing letter literary Little Agib live look Lord Lord Mayor's Show LYCIUS MAGOG master MERCUTIUS Miss morning mother never night PICUS pooh poor Pray Rotterdam round Rovinello sight sing sitting song soon soul Spencer Perceval spirit street sure sweet tears Tebaldo tell thee There's thing THOMAS HOOD thou tree turned Valentine voice walk whilst window wish woman words wretched write young Zounds
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Página 319 - 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.
Página 450 - Twas in the prime of summer time, An evening calm and cool, And four-and-twenty happy boys Came bounding out of school : There were some that ran, and some that leapt, Like troutlets in a pool.
Página 453 - He told how murderers walk the earth, Beneath the curse of Cain, With crimson clouds before their eyes, And flames about their brain: For blood has left upon their souls Its everlasting stain.
Página 455 - My head was like an ardent coal, My heart as solid ice; My wretched, wretched soul, I knew, Was at the Devil's price: A dozen times I groaned — the dead Had never groaned but twice.
Página 452 - The Usher took six hasty strides, As smit with sudden pain, — Six hasty strides beyond the place, Then slowly back again ; And down he sat beside the lad, And talk'd with him of Cain ; And, long since then, of bloody men, Whose deeds tradition saves ; Of lonely folk cut off unseen, And hid in sudden graves ; Of horrid stabs, in groves forlorn, And murders done in caves; And how the sprites of injured men Shriek upward from the sod...
Página 416 - 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 I Oh ! might my name be numbered among theirs, Then gladly would I end my mortal days.
Página 454 - Nothing but lifeless flesh and bone, That could not do me ill; And yet I feared him all the more, For lying there so still: There was a manhood in his look, That murder could not kill! " And lo ! the universal air Seemed lit with ghastly flame, — Ten thousand, thousand dreadful eyes Were looking down in blame ; I took the dead man by his hand, And called upon his name.