Hood's Own: Or, Laughter from Year to Year. Being Former Runnings of His Comic Vein, with an Infusion of New Blood for General CirculationE. Moxon, 1846 - 568 pagina's |
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Pagina 9
... fire - works , and those very lofty trees . But I trust my dear Jemima will supersede topography by ocular inspection ; and in the interim I send for accept- ance a graphical view of the locality , shaded in Indian ink , which will ...
... fire - works , and those very lofty trees . But I trust my dear Jemima will supersede topography by ocular inspection ; and in the interim I send for accept- ance a graphical view of the locality , shaded in Indian ink , which will ...
Pagina 13
... fire of London . The first thing I did on coming down , was to see to the sweeps going up , but I wish I had been less precipitous , for the sootty wretches stole four good flitches of bacon , as was up the kitchen chimbly , quite ...
... fire of London . The first thing I did on coming down , was to see to the sweeps going up , but I wish I had been less precipitous , for the sootty wretches stole four good flitches of bacon , as was up the kitchen chimbly , quite ...
Pagina 14
... fire so easily , if Swing should come into The poor boys have made themselves very industrious in shooting off the birds , and hunting away all the vermin , be- sides cutting down trees . As I knew it was profitable to fell timber , I ...
... fire so easily , if Swing should come into The poor boys have made themselves very industrious in shooting off the birds , and hunting away all the vermin , be- sides cutting down trees . As I knew it was profitable to fell timber , I ...
Pagina 22
... fire in our new abode , a large serpent came down the chimney , which I looked upon as a good omen . How- ever , as Mrs. P. is not partial to snakes , and the heat is supposed to attract those reptiles , we have dispensed with fires ...
... fire in our new abode , a large serpent came down the chimney , which I looked upon as a good omen . How- ever , as Mrs. P. is not partial to snakes , and the heat is supposed to attract those reptiles , we have dispensed with fires ...
Pagina 26
... Fire ? or Murder ? What's the matter ? " Till Mary getting breath , Upon her tale began to touch With rapid tongue , full trotting , such As if she thought she had too much To tell before her death : - " We was both , Ma'am , in the ...
... Fire ? or Murder ? What's the matter ? " Till Mary getting breath , Upon her tale began to touch With rapid tongue , full trotting , such As if she thought she had too much To tell before her death : - " We was both , Ma'am , in the ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 408 - He has no children. All my pretty ones? Did you say all? O hell-kite! All? What, all my pretty chickens and their dam At one fell swoop?
Pagina 146 - Jael had those full dark inscrutable eyes. In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces — or rather masks— that have looked out kindly upon one in casual encounters in the streets and highways. I love what Fuller beautifully calls — these
Pagina 215 - OUR village, that's to say not Miss Mitford's village, but our village of Bullock Smithy, Is come into by an avenue of trees, three oak pollards, two elders, and a withy ; And in the middle, there's a green of about not exceeding an acre and a half ; It's common to all, and fed off by nineteen cows, six ponies, three horses, five asses, two foals, seven pigs, and a calf! Besides a pond in the middle, as is held by a similar sort of common law lease, And contains twenty ducks, six drakes, three ganders,...
Pagina 215 - Of course the green's cropt very close, and does famous for bowling when the little village boys play at cricket; Only some horse, or pig, or cow, or great jackass, is sure to come and stand right before the wicket. There's fifty-five private houses, let alone barns and workshops, and...
Pagina 41 - No go!" Now puss, while folks are in their beds, treads leads. . And sleepers waking, grumble —
Pagina 60 - I never knew what a precious he was — but a child don't not feel like a child till you miss him. Why, there he is ! Punch and Judy hunting, the young wretch, it's that Billy as sartin as sin ! But let me get him home, with...
Pagina 41 - Denying to his frantic clutch much touch; — Or else to see Ducrow with wide stride ride Four horses as no other man can span; Or in the small Olympic Pit, sit split Laughing at Liston, while you quiz his phiz.
Pagina 81 - Oh ! Sally, sharks do things by halves, Yet most completely do ! A bite in one place seems enough, But I've been bit in two. " You know I once was all your own But now a shark must share ! But let that pass — for now to you I'm neither here nor there.
Pagina 243 - ... application of the following words of Sir Walter Scott, much better than the career of their illustrious author. " There is no man known at all in literature, who may not have more to tell of his private life than I have. I have surmounted no difficulties either of birth or education, nor have I been favoured by any particular advantages, and my life has been as void of incidents of importance as that of the weary knife-grinder—' Story! God bless you, I have none to tell, sir.'"..
Pagina 527 - Those joyous hours are past away ; And many a heart, that then was gay, Within the tomb now darkly dwells, And hears no more those evening bells. And so 'twill be when I am gone ; That tuneful peal will still ring on, While...