But could not though he tried : His head was turned, and so he chewed His pigtail till he died. His death, which happened in his berth, At forty-odd befell: They went and told the sexton, and The sexton toll'd the bell. Complete poetical works - Page 361by Thomas Hood - 1862Full view - About this book
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1868 - 766 pages
...wig ? " The fancy is yet more tickled where logic is treated with a mock ceremonial of respect. " His head was turned, and so he chewed His pigtail till he died." Now when this kind of thing is done in earnest, the result is one of those ill-distributed syllogisms... | |
| 1826 - 570 pages
...head was turn'd, and so he chew'd His pigtail till he died. His death, which happen'd in his birth, At forty-odd befell : They went and told the sexton, and The sexton toll'd the bell.' — pp. 34 — 37. As the reader must have had abundant merriment in this exquisite... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1827 - 256 pages
...John Trot .. .. .. .. .. .. 140 An Absentee . . 144 Ode to the Cameleopard 148 WHIMS AND ODDITIES. BIANCA'S DREAM. A VENETIAN STORY. BIANCA ! — fair...safety on her dark and hazel gaze, Nor find there lurk'd in it a witching spell, Fatal to balmy nights and blessed days ! The peaceful breath that made... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...to pipe his eye. And then he tried to sing, '• Vll 's Well," But could not, though he tried; His head was turned, and so he chewed His pigtail till he died. | berth, His death, which happened in his At forty-odd befell: They went and told the sexton, and The... | |
| 1834 - 480 pages
...then to pipe his eye. And then he tried to sing ** All's well," But couldn't, though he tried, His head was turned, and so he chewed His pigtail till he died. Too ral, &c. His death, which happened in his birthf At forty odd befell ; They went and told the sexton,... | |
| 1835 - 320 pages
...And then to pipe his eye. And then he tried to sing, " All's well," But couldn't though he tried, His head was turned, and so he chewed His pigtail till he died. Too ral, &c. His death which happened in his berth, At forty odd befell; They went and told the sexton,... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1847 - 302 pages
...They went and told the sexton, and The sexton toll'd the bell. BIANCA'S DREAM. A VENETIAN STORY. I. BIANCA ! — fair Bianca ! — who could dwell With...safety on her dark and hazel gaze, Nor find there lurk'd in it a witching spell, Fatal to halmy nights and blessed days ? The peaceful breath that made... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1847 - 314 pages
...head was turn'd, and so he chew'd His pigtail till he died. His death, which happen'd in his birth, At forty-odd befell: They went and told the sexton, and The sexton toll'd the bell. BIANCA'S DREAM. A VENETIAN STORY. BIANCA !—fair Bianca !—who could dwell With... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1849 - 308 pages
...went and told the sexton, and The sexton toll'd the bell. BIANCA'S DREAM. A VENETIAN STORY. BIAXCA !—fair Bianca !—who could dwell With safety on her dark and hazel gaze, Nor find there lurk'd in it a witching spell, Fatal to balmy nights and blessed days ? The peaceful breath that made... | |
| 1857 - 498 pages
...position, we are fit for nothing more practical than the work of the poor love-lorn sailor, whose " — head was turned, and so he chewed , His pigtail till he died." Like him, we shall unfit ourselves for any thing but to live in the past, and to seek, like parasitical... | |
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