| 1905 - 864 pages
...that if hard words break no bones, they cer358 359 talnly will not mend those that are already broken. Mild light and by degrees should be the plan To cure...benighted man And give him two black eyes for being blind? For Boy as well as for other people a dearly bought experience may in the long-run turn out to be the... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1846 - 672 pages
...idols hanker Like crazy Quixotic at the puppet's play, If their " offence be rank," should mine be rancour ? Mild light, and by degrees, should be the...benighted man, And give him two black eyes for being blind ? Suppose the tender but luxuriant hop Around a canker'd stem should twine, What Kentish boor would... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1846 - 258 pages
...idols hanker Like crazy Quixotte at the puppet's play, If their " offence be rank," should mine be rancour ? Mild light, and by degrees, should be the...benighted man, And give him two black eyes for being blind ? Suppose the tender but luxuriant hop Around a canker'd stem should twine, What Kentish boor would... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1847 - 256 pages
...idols hanker Like crazy Quixotte at the puppet's play, If their " offence be rank," should mine be rancour? Mild light, and by degrees, should be the...benighted man, And give him two black eyes for being blind ? Suppose the tender but luxuriant hop Around a canker'd stem should twine, What Kentish boor would... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1854 - 480 pages
...idols hanker Like crazy Quixotte at the puppet's play, If their " offence be rank," should mine be rancour? Mild light, and by degrees, should be the...benighted man, And give him two black eyes for being blind I Suppose the tender but luxuriant hop Around a canker'd stem should twine. What Kentish boor would... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1854 - 424 pages
...idols hanker Like crazy Quixotte at the puppet's play, If their " offence be rank," should mine be rancour ? Mild light, and by degrees, should be the...benighted man, And give him two black eyes for being blind ? Suppose the tender but luxuriant hop Around a canker' d stem should twine, What Kentish boor would... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1854 - 536 pages
...hanker Like crazy Quixotte at the puppet's play, If their "offence be rank," should mine be rancor ? Mild light, and by degrees, should be the plan To...benighted man, And give him two black eyes for being blind 1 What Kentish boor would tear away the prop So roughly as to wound, nay, kill the bine ? The images,... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1855 - 590 pages
...of his mind and creed ; and if the reader think him wrong and blind, who, as he himself says — " Who would rush at a benighted man, And give him two black eyes for being blind ?" " I do confess that I abhor and shrink From schemes, with a religious willy-willy, That frown upon... | |
| 1855 - 1226 pages
...bit of his mind and creed ; and if the reader think him wrong and blind, who, as he himself says — "Who would rush at a benighted man, And give him two black eyes for being blind ?" " I do confess that I abhor and shrink Prom schemes, with a religions willy-willy, That frown npon... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1856 - 358 pages
...the idols hanker Like crazy Quixotte at the puppet's play, If their" offence be rank," should mine be rancour? Mild light, and by degrees, should be the...benighted man, And give him two black eyes for being blind ? Suppose the tender but luxuriant hop Around a canker'd stem should twine, What Kentish boor would... | |
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