Hood's own; or, Laughter from year to year1839 |
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Pagina 4
... heart is lower hung than usual - but what of that ? The more need to keep it up ! So huzza ! my boys ! Comus and Momus for ever ! No Heraclitus ! Nine times nine for Democritus ! And here goes my last bottle of Elixir at the heads of ...
... heart is lower hung than usual - but what of that ? The more need to keep it up ! So huzza ! my boys ! Comus and Momus for ever ! No Heraclitus ! Nine times nine for Democritus ! And here goes my last bottle of Elixir at the heads of ...
Pagina 5
... heart , quickens the circulation , and " like a trumpet makes the spirits dance . " A fico then for the Chesterfieldian canon , that laughter is an ungenteel emotion . Smiles are tolerated by the very pinks of politeness ; and a laugh ...
... heart , quickens the circulation , and " like a trumpet makes the spirits dance . " A fico then for the Chesterfieldian canon , that laughter is an ungenteel emotion . Smiles are tolerated by the very pinks of politeness ; and a laugh ...
Pagina 17
... heart of Lincolnshire fens , over which it looks through an advantageous opening : comprising a great variety of windmills , and drains , and willow - pollards , and an extensive assortment of similar articles , that are not much ...
... heart of Lincolnshire fens , over which it looks through an advantageous opening : comprising a great variety of windmills , and drains , and willow - pollards , and an extensive assortment of similar articles , that are not much ...
Pagina 27
... heart to jump . And there she is , a - lying with a crazy sort of eye , A - staring at the wash - house roof , laid open to the sky : Then she beckons with a finger , and so down to her I reaches , And puts my ear agin her mouth to hear ...
... heart to jump . And there she is , a - lying with a crazy sort of eye , A - staring at the wash - house roof , laid open to the sky : Then she beckons with a finger , and so down to her I reaches , And puts my ear agin her mouth to hear ...
Pagina 36
... heart and on my vitals prey ; I've caught a fever that I can't get over , Over the way ! Oh ! why are eyes of hazel ? noses Grecian ! I've lost my rest by night , my peace by day , For want of some brown Holland or Venetian , Over the ...
... heart and on my vitals prey ; I've caught a fever that I can't get over , Over the way ! Oh ! why are eyes of hazel ? noses Grecian ! I've lost my rest by night , my peace by day , For want of some brown Holland or Venetian , Over the ...
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Alderman amongst better boys called Captain coach coachman course cried dancing dead dear Dietrich door eyes face fancy favour fear female gentleman give Gog and Magog green Grocer's company hand hath head hear heart honour hope horse hyæna lady legs Lincolnshire Little Britain live London look Lord Ma'am Madame Doppeldick maid Malchen Master meruit ferat mind Miss Norman morning mother never night Nore Number Old Bailey once Palmam qui meruit Peter Stone Pompey poor PUGSLEY Quickset round Saint Ursula Sambo seem'd seemed short sister sort spirit squibs stand Stoke Pogis sure tell thee There's no Romance Thickset thing thou thought tion took turn Vespasian Vincent Ball voice waggon walk whim whole window wish young
Populaire passages
Pagina 44 - What ! must you go ? next time I hope You'll give me longer measure ; Nay — I shall see you down the stairs — (With most uncommon pleasure...
Pagina 144 - 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 41 - Who in the gutter caterwauls, squalls, mauls Some feline foe, and screams in shrill ill-will. Now Bulls of Bashan, of a prize size, rise In childish dreams, and with a roar gore poor Georgy, or Charley, or Billy, willy-nilly ; — But Nursemaid in a nightmare rest...
Pagina 240 - ... 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 149 - ... been whites, and are still white, or nearly white, once a year, like the hawthorns in May, they are protected and even pampered by laws, the framers of which have assuredly considered their own crows as the fairest. Let any one turn to the Statute Anno Quarto et Quinto Gulielmi IV. Regis, cap. 35, intituled " An Act for the Better Regulation of Chimney Sweepers and their Apprentices," and he will find that the Climbing Boy, compared with the African, is almost a spoiled child.
Pagina 47 - The horror of Emilia, on discovering that the Moor had murdered her mistress, was scarcely greater than that of Miss Morbid ! She hardly, she said, believed her own senses. You might have knocked her down with a feather ! She did not know whether she stood on her head or her heels. She was rooted to the spot ! and her hair, if it had been her own, would have stood upright upon her head ! There was no doubt in the case. She saw the transfer of a portion of her own bank-stock, from her escritoire into...
Pagina 79 - 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.