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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... leave of his country , and with a hopeless passion at heart wandered over Europe . As soon as she was married , Bianca was taken by her husband to his country - house , which was situated on the sea- coast , towards Girgenti , his chief ...
... leave of his country , and with a hopeless passion at heart wandered over Europe . As soon as she was married , Bianca was taken by her husband to his country - house , which was situated on the sea- coast , towards Girgenti , his chief ...
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... part of the submission . I have redeemed your wife , at the cost of your ten thousand florins and some perils besides ; for which , if you owe me anything , I leave her my executor , for I have nothing 16 THE TWO FAITHFUL LOVERS OF SICILY .
... part of the submission . I have redeemed your wife , at the cost of your ten thousand florins and some perils besides ; for which , if you owe me anything , I leave her my executor , for I have nothing 16 THE TWO FAITHFUL LOVERS OF SICILY .
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... leave her my executor , for I have nothing left me now but to die . " The merchant , looking somewhat amazed at his discourse , then answered him thus : - " If the lady you speak of is the wife of my brother , Gio . Mercanti , he has ...
... leave her my executor , for I have nothing left me now but to die . " The merchant , looking somewhat amazed at his discourse , then answered him thus : - " If the lady you speak of is the wife of my brother , Gio . Mercanti , he has ...
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... leaves , to fly after the musician . " Nor did the fond lady speak beyond her feeling in this matter , so dearly does memory exaggerate the merits of things beloved . Anon the clear voice of Benetto sounded again upon the distant wind ...
... leaves , to fly after the musician . " Nor did the fond lady speak beyond her feeling in this matter , so dearly does memory exaggerate the merits of things beloved . Anon the clear voice of Benetto sounded again upon the distant wind ...
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... leave , if I might hear that song once or twice over , I think I could remember the variations , which I think would afford your Majesty an increase of pleasure . " The Sultan , who was passionately fond of her voice , immediately ...
... leave , if I might hear that song once or twice over , I think I could remember the variations , which I think would afford your Majesty an increase of pleasure . " The Sultan , who was passionately fond of her voice , immediately ...
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The Works of Thomas Hood: Comic and Serious, in Prose and Verse ..., Volumen6 Thomas Hood Vista de fragmentos - 1869 |
Términos y frases comunes
amongst APOLLONIUS Athenæum 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 fair farewell father feel friends GALLO gentlemen give hand hath head hear heard heart Hidalgo honour hope horse Huggins hunt John Huggins JULIUS knew Kolmarr lady LAMIA Landino laughing letter literary Little Agib live look Lord Lord Mayor's Show LYCIUS master MERCUTIUS Miss morning mother never night PICUS pooh poor Pray rose Rotterdam round Rovinello Serjeant Talfourd sight sing sitting song soon soul Spencer Perceval spirit stood sure sweet tears Tebaldo tell thee There's thing THOMAS HOOD thou tree turned Twas Valentine's Day voice walk whilst window wine woman words wretched write young Zounds
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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!