Memorials of Thomas Hood, collected and ed. by his daughter [F.F. Broderip].1860 |
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ALTEN GRABEN amused Athenæum Batavier beautiful believe Berlin bless Bromberg Bruges called Charles Lamb cloth Coblenz cold Cologne comfort Comic DEAR WRIGHT delighted Dilke dine dinner doctor Eau de Cologne EDITION EDWARD MOXON Ehrenbreitstein Elliot England English fancy Fanny father fear feel fish foolscap 8vo forget Franck French German give Gradle groschen head hear heard heart Hood's hope Jane joke King lady laugh letter live London look Margate mind Miss morning Moselle mother never night Nimeguen officers Ostend perhaps pleasant POEMS poor Pray Prince Prussian quarters Rhine Rotterdam seemed sent sketch sort spirit suppose table d'hôte talk tell thank thing THOMAS HOOD thought to-day told took volume walk Wanstead Park weather Winchmore Hill wine wish wonder write young
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Página xv - I quote here one passage, as a sample of those, which occur so frequently in the letters. "I never was anything, dearest, till I knew you—- and I have been a better, happier, and more prosperous man ever since.
Página 36 - I'll be thy good friend, Nay, and Joan thy sweet wife shall my duchess attend. Then the tinker reply'd, What ! must Joan my sweet bride Be a lady in chariots of pleasure to ride ? Must we have gold and land ev'ry day at command ? Then I shall be a squire I well understand : Well I thank your good grace, and your love I embrace, I was never before in so happy a case.
Página 222 - To Timahoe," says he, " And go to the fair," says he, " And see all that 's there ! " says he. " First pay what you owe ! " says he, " And then you may go," says he, " To Timahoe," says he, " And go to the fair," says he, " And see all that's there !
Página 84 - But a more whimsical mistake arose out of my lay-up, which I must give you dramatically. Our servant knows a few words of English too, her name is Gradle, the short for Margaret. Jane wanted a fowl to boil for me. Now she has a theory that the more she makes her English un-English, the more it must be like German. Jane begins by showing Gradle a word in the dictionary. Gradle. "Ja! yees — htihn — henne—ja!
Página 20 - What is a modern poet's fate ? To write his thoughts upon a slate ; The critic spits on what is done, Gives it a wipe — and all is gone.
Página 215 - I have some dried flowers for my flower-loving Fanny, gathered at odd out-of-the-way places ; I will show her where on the map when I return. It was singular in the sheepskin country, whilst the men were all so warmly pelissed, to see the women in their short petticoats, their legs looking so cold. I suspect I pass for very hardy, if not foolhardy, I slight the cold so...
Página 22 - Gathered, methinks, I see the Elfin Race, With the IMMORTAL standing them among, Smiling benign with more than courtly grace; — Rescued I see them — all their gambols trace, With their fair Queen Titania in her bower, And all their avocations small embrace...
Página 30 - I am almost afraid of making the following request, but perhaps it may be as amusing as it must be easy to you to comply with it, in which case alone I beg you to do it. It is necessary to construct a door of sham books, for the entrance of a library staircase at Chatsworth : your assistance in giving me inscriptions for these unreal folios, quartos, and 1 2mos, is what I now ask. One is tired of the " Plain Dealings," " Essays on Wood," and "Perpetual Motion" on such doors, — on one I have seen...
Página 50 - With these views, leaving every shilling behind him, derived from the sale of his effects, the means he carried with him being an advance upon his future labours, he voluntarily expatriated himself, and bade his native land good-night.
Página 49 - For some months he strove with his embarrassments, but the first heavy sea being followed up . by other adversities, all hope of righting the vessel was abandoned. In this extremity had he listened to the majority of his advisers, he would at once have absolved himself of his obligations by one or other of those sharp but sure remedies, which the legislature has provided for all such evils. But a sense of...