The Works of Thomas Hood: Comic and Serious, in Prose and Verse with All the Original Illustrations, Volumen6E. Moxon, 1871 - 456 páginas |
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... human inhabitants , -but there were millions of marine birds upon the rocks , as tame as domestic fowls , and a prodigious number of rabbits ; the interior country , besides , seemed well wooded with various trees : and the ground ...
... human inhabitants , -but there were millions of marine birds upon the rocks , as tame as domestic fowls , and a prodigious number of rabbits ; the interior country , besides , seemed well wooded with various trees : and the ground ...
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... human ashes . There had not been a festival of this sort for some time before , so that the people prepared for it with great eagerness , all putting on their holiday clothes , and crowding into the streets , almost to their mutual ...
... human ashes . There had not been a festival of this sort for some time before , so that the people prepared for it with great eagerness , all putting on their holiday clothes , and crowding into the streets , almost to their mutual ...
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... 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 . The songs there are so full of love ...
... 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 . The songs there are so full of love ...
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... human life is quite as liable to be affected by its pernicious atmosphere . Thus , if any of the ladies of the Harem should by chance fall asleep under it , I doubt it would be as fatal as the Tree of Knowledge to their grand- mother ...
... human life is quite as liable to be affected by its pernicious atmosphere . Thus , if any of the ladies of the Harem should by chance fall asleep under it , I doubt it would be as fatal as the Tree of Knowledge to their grand- mother ...
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... human clay he had intended to trifle with . There is no such creature in the world as your bull for a revengeful memory , for he will cherish affronts or dislikes for a considerable while ; and besides , he takes great pleasure in any ...
... human clay he had intended to trifle with . There is no such creature in the world as your bull for a revengeful memory , for he will cherish affronts or dislikes for a considerable while ; and besides , he takes great pleasure in any ...
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Página 294 - 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 428 - 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 432 - One stern tyrannic thought, that made All other thoughts its slave ; Stronger and stronger every pulse Did that temptation crave, Still urging me to go and see The dead man in his grave...
Página 432 - With breathless speed, like a soul in chase, I took him up and ran;— There was no time to dig a grave Before the day began: In a lonesome wood, with heaps of leaves, I hid the murdered man!
Página 426 - Then leaping on his feet upright, Some moody turns he took, Now up the mead, then down the mead, And past a shady nook, And, lo! he saw a little boy That pored upon a book! 'My gentle lad, what is't you read Romance or fairy fable? Or is it some historic page, Of kings and crowns unstable?' The young boy gave an upward glance, 'It is "The Death of Abel".
Página 425 - 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 428 - One that had never done me wrong — A feeble man and old; I led him to a lonely field, — The moon shone clear and cold: Now here, said I, this man shall die, And I will have his gold!
Página 391 - 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 ! Oh ! might my name be numbered among theirs, Then gladly would I end my mortal days.
Página 137 - ... to his great content, and at last married her, to whose wedding, amongst other guests, came Apollonius ; who, by some probable conjectures, found her out to be a serpent, a lamia ; and that all her furniture was, like Tantalus' gold, described by Homer, no substance but mere illusions.
Página 428 - Two sudden blows with a ragged stick, And one with a heavy stone, One hurried gash with a hasty knife, And then the deed was done: There was nothing lying at my foot But lifeless flesh and bone!