Whimsicalities: a periodical gathering. To which are added: 'York and Lancaster' and 'Lost and found', the 'Epping hunt' and 'Eugene Aram'.1878 |
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... True Tale " 153 · Epigram - On Mrs. Parkes's Pamphlet 176 An Extraordinary Operation 177 · The Earth - Quakers . 181 Sonnet 198 · The Grimsby Ghost . No. A Black Job . 199 224 • Epigram - On a late Cattle - show in Smithfield 226 226 ...
... True Tale " 153 · Epigram - On Mrs. Parkes's Pamphlet 176 An Extraordinary Operation 177 · The Earth - Quakers . 181 Sonnet 198 · The Grimsby Ghost . No. A Black Job . 199 224 • Epigram - On a late Cattle - show in Smithfield 226 226 ...
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... your spleen . LADY B. And in mentioning my spleen , pray trace the origin of Mister Travers ! Miss D. I understand that emphasis . It is true that Mr. Travers cannot boast of an ancient pedigree ; his ancestors LOST AND FOUND . 29.
... your spleen . LADY B. And in mentioning my spleen , pray trace the origin of Mister Travers ! Miss D. I understand that emphasis . It is true that Mr. Travers cannot boast of an ancient pedigree ; his ancestors LOST AND FOUND . 29.
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... true , howsomever . He has sent us all to Coventry ' ( famous place for ribbons , you know ) , but I'll hunt him out , if I call on all the Traverses in Lonnon . SALLY . Travers ! Here's a devilopement ! To think I did not know him in ...
... true , howsomever . He has sent us all to Coventry ' ( famous place for ribbons , you know ) , but I'll hunt him out , if I call on all the Traverses in Lonnon . SALLY . Travers ! Here's a devilopement ! To think I did not know him in ...
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... true , however ; and what's more , he lives here close by . SAM . What , Dick ! The dickens he does ! Come , show us the way ! O Dick , Dick , if you've forgot what's natural affection I haven't . Come along , Sal . I'm on an ounce of ...
... true , however ; and what's more , he lives here close by . SAM . What , Dick ! The dickens he does ! Come , show us the way ! O Dick , Dick , if you've forgot what's natural affection I haven't . Come along , Sal . I'm on an ounce of ...
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... True , Sam , true . How is he ? SAM . Middlin , very middlin , as yaller as nankeen and wasting away to a tape . We're afeard the gout's going upwards to his stomach , and when once his vittles turn to chalk , you know — why he's as ...
... True , Sam , true . How is he ? SAM . Middlin , very middlin , as yaller as nankeen and wasting away to a tape . We're afeard the gout's going upwards to his stomach , and when once his vittles turn to chalk , you know — why he's as ...
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Whimsicalities; a Periodical Gathering. To which are Added: "York and ... Thomas Hood Vista completa - 1870 |
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Página 222 - No sun — no moon! No morn — no noon — No dawn — no dusk — no proper time of day — No sky — no earthly view — No distance looking blue — No road — no street — no "t'other side the way...
Página 266 - Hereditary bondsmen ! know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?
Página 595 - 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 ! " And all that day I read in school, But my thought was other where...
Página 587 - 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 590 - 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 ! "Two sudden blows with ragged stick.
Página 581 - In June, 1757, William Thompson, for all the vigilance of this place, in open daylight, and double-ironed, made his escape ; and, notwithstanding an immediate inquiry set on foot, the strictest search, and all advertisement, was never seen or heard of since. If then Thompson got off unseen, through all these difficulties, how very easy was it for...
Página 585 - ... the learning, and the integrity of this place, to impute to the living what zeal in its fury may have done ; what nature may have taken off, and piety interred; or what war alone may have destroyed, alone deposited.
Página 590 - He told how murderers walked 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 581 - Besides, it must needs occur to every one, that an action of this atrocious nature is never heard of but when its springs are laid open, it appears that it was to support some indolence, or supply some luxury; to satisfy some avarice, or oblige some malice; to prevent some real, or some imaginary want: yet I lay not under the influence of any one of these. Surely, my lord, I may, consistent with both truth and modesty, affirm thus much; and none who have any veracity, and knew me, will ever question...
Página 581 - ... before, I had been confined to my bed, and suffered under a very long and severe disorder, and was not able, for half a year together, so much as to walk. The distemper left me indeed, yet slowly and in part ; but so macerated, so enfeebled, that I was reduced to crutches...