Identifier: whimsodditiesinp00hoo (find matches)
Title: Whims and oddities : in prose and verse
Year: 1836 (1830s)
Authors: Hood, Thomas, 1799-1845
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Publisher: London : C. Tilt
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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now her by her waist, So long and thin, And so pinchd in,Just in the pismire taste. Oh! what are men ?—Beings so smal., That, should I fallUpon their little heads, I mustCrush them by hundreds into dust! And what is life ? and all its ages— Theres seven stages!Turnham Green ! Chelsea! Putney! Fulham!Brentford! and Kew!And Tooting, too!And oh! what very little nags to pull ?em. Yet each would seem a horse indeed,If here at Pauls tip-top wed got em ; Although, like Cinderellas breed,Theyre mice at bottom. Then let me not despise a horse,Though he looks small from Pauls high cross!Since he would be,— as near the sky,— Fourteen hands high. THE CROSS OF ST. PAUL S. O What is this world with London in its lap ? Moggs Map.The Thames, that ebbs and flows in its broad channel ? A tidy kennel.The bridges stretching from its banks ? Stone planks.Oh me! hence could I read an admonition To mad Ambition!But that he would not listen to my call,Though I should stand upon the cross, and ball J
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VERY DEAF, INDEED. b2 THE PRAYSE OF IGNORANCE. An Extract from an Oration delivered before the most grave andLearned Faculty of Padua, by the Admirable Crichton. Now your Clowne knoweth none of the Booke-manstroubles, and his dayes be the longer; for he doth notvault upon the fierie Pegasus, but jumpes merrilye upon oldBall, who is a cart-horse, and singeth another mans song,which hath, it may be, thirty and six verses, and a burthenwithal, and goes to a tune which no man knowes but him-self. Alsoe, he wooes the ruddye Cicely, which is not aMuse, but as comely a maide of fleshe as needes be, andmany daintye ballades are made of their loves, as may beread in our Poets, their Pastoralls; only that therein he iscalled Damon, which standes for Roger, and Cicely, belike,is ycleped Sylvia, as belongs to their pastorall abodes.Where they lead soe happye life as to stir up envye in thetownes women, who would fame become Shepherdesses,by hook and by crook, and get green gownes and lay downupon

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