The Works of Thomas Hood; Vol. 01 (of 11) Comic and Serious, in Prose and Verse, With All the Original Illustrations

On the morrow, which happened to be the Dame’s birthday, the Farmer was the first to wake, and _knowing what he knew_, and having besides but just roused himself out of a dream...

“The first of March!--why, my good fellow, you have a day to spare then,--the first of March will not be here till to-morrow. It is Leap Year, and February has twenty-nine days.”

I did not stand alone, I suspect, in this unjustifiable jealousy. Messrs. Jones, Hindmarsh, Tidwell, and Parsons, seemed equally disinclined to forgive the chivalrous act which...

At last I gave way to his importunity. On Thursday night, he started from the tree of knowledge by a branch coach; and at nine on Friday morning, I found myself sitting at his d...

Now, if curiosity should itch to know what his whim was like, let it be known, once for all, that it was like neither a toad, nor a spider, nor a viper, nor a snail, nor a black...

So long I have wander’d a starver, I’m getting as keen as a hawk; Time’s long hand must take up a carver, His short hand lay hold of a fork.

In the first tumult of my agitation I pitched my Morning Herald, where Parson Adams threw his Æschylus, namely, behind the fire; but the very next instant, with a vague notion t...

A hundred other circumstances have escaped from Memory through the holes that time has made in her sieve: but I remember distinctly, as we passed the bar in our passage outwards...

Our stomachs we had just prepared To vest a small amount in; When, gush! a flood of brine came down The skylight--quite a fountain, And right on end the table rear’d, Just like...

Littel did I Think wen I advertisd in the Tims for annother Plaice of taking wan in Vandemin’s land. But so it his and Hear I am amung Kangerooses and Savidges and other Forrine...

“Ye shall not need,” answered Adams, “hearken only to what I say, and you shall have free passage; but I give you fair warning, though I be but a single man, and without weapon,...

Although warmth has made a coolness, and our having words has caused a silence--yet as mere writing is not being on speaking terms, and disconsolate parents in the case; I waive...

Or, if the Lord Mayor, on an Easter Monday, That wine and bun-day, Proposed to poison all the little Blue-coats Before they died by bit or sup, Some meddling Marplot would blow...

I was walking very leisurely one evening down Cripplegate, when I overtook--who could help overtaking him?--a lame elderly gentleman, who, by the nature of his gait, appeared to...

As the other inhabitants do not always choose to follow the example of these two--I have known our illuminations to be very select--the great oil and tallow establishments blazi...

Unhappily for Case’s scheme of quiet, Wicklow just then was in a pretty riot, A fact recorded in each day’s diurnals, Things, Case was not accustomed to peruse, Careless of news...

The mention of Men-of-War, bringeth to mind, opportunely, certain marine reminiscences, pertinent to this subject, referring some years backward, when, with other uniform than m...

Such was the result of my conference with Sambo; and it served to account for the conduct of the tradesman in the Strand, by proving, that instead of being treated as one of the...

He was evidently a foreigner, and poor. As I sat at the opposite corner of the Southgate stage, I took a mental inventory of his wardrobe. A military cloak much the worse for we...

It has been argued, on high authority, as a reason for retaining the troops in question, that they are the most _constitutional_ force that could be selected; and truly of their...

Here I am safe and sound--well in body, and in fine voice for my calling--though thousands and thousands of miles, I may say, from the old living Threap-Cum-Toddle. Little did I...

How the following correspondence came into my hands must remain a Waverley mystery. The Pugsley Papers were neither rescued from a garret, like the Evelyn,--collected from cartr...

“Sir, I have heard you with delight. I can procure you an engagement, not perhaps for the Romeos, but all great actors have risen by slow degrees, and the best of them has, at h...

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Anon Night comes, and with her wings brings things Such as, with his poetic tongue, Young sung; The gas up-blazes with its bright white light, And paralytic watchmen prowl, howl...

“I don’t think,” resumed W., “I felt as much when my poor mother died--I don’t, upon my soul! _She_ was expected for years, but the lady in green came like a thunderbolt!--When...

And now, it may be reasonably asked, where I did learn anything if not at these establishments, which promise Universal Knowledge--extras included--and yet unaccountably produce...