44 ordspråk av Thomas Hood
Thomas Hood
Thomas Hood föddes den
23 Mai 1799 och dog den 3 Mai
1845 - wrote poem Eugene Aram's Dream 1829, b.
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"Lives" of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters that we ought to burn
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"Lives" of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters that we ought to burn
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A certain portion of the human race has certainly a taste for being diddled.
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A hollow voice is all I have / But this I tell you plain, / Marry come up! - you marry, Ma'am, / And I'll come up again.
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A moment's thinking is an hour in words.
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Alas! my everlasting peace / Is broken into pieces.
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Being used but sisterly salutes to feel, Insipid things - like sandwiches of veal
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Ben Battle was a soldier bold, / And used to war's alarms: / But a cannon-ball took off his legs, / So he laid down his arms.
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But evil is wrought by want of thought as well as want of heart!
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For here I leave my second leg, / And the Forty-second Foot.
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For one of the pleasures of having a rout, / Is the pleasure of having it over.
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Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - He paints in nature and describes in rime
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Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold.
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His death which happened in his berth, / At forty-odd befell: / They went and told the sexton, and / The sexton toll'd the bell.
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