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The Works of Thomas Hood, Vol. I

The Works of Thomas Hood, Vol. I

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Author
Hood, Thomas, 1799-1845
Title
The Works of Thomas Hood; Vol. 01 (of 11) Comic and Serious, in Prose and Verse, With All the Original Illustrations
Credits
Produced by Jane Robins, Reiner Ruf, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Language
English
LoC Class
PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
Subject
English poetry -- 19th century
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 59269
Release Date
April 13, 2019
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.THE WORKS OF THOMAS HOOD.
  2. 2.PREFACE.
  3. 3.PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
  4. 4.PREFACE: BEING AN INAUGURAL DISCOURSE ON A CERTAIN SYSTEM OF PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY.
  5. 5.CONTENTS.
  6. 6.THE PUGSLEY PAPERS.
  7. 7.AN ANCIENT CONCERT. BY A VENERABLE DIRECTOR
  8. 8.A LETTER FROM AN EMIGRANT.
  9. 9.SONNET ON STEAM. BY AN UNDER-OSTLER.
  10. 10.A REPORT FROM BELOW!
  11. 11.THE LAST SHILLING.
  12. 12.ODE TO M. BRUNEL.
  13. 13.THE DEATH OF THE DOMINIE.
  14. 14.OVER THE WAY.
  15. 15.A PLAN FOR WRITING BLANK VERSE IN RHYME, IN A LETTER TO THE EDITOR.
  16. 16.A LETTER FROM A MARKET GARDENER TO THE SECRETARY OF THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.
  17. 17.DOMESTIC ASIDES; OR, TRUTH IN PARENTHESES
  18. 18.BLACK, WHITE, AND BROWN.
  19. 19.EPIGRAMS. — COMPOSED ON READING A DIARY LATELY PUBLISHED. — THE LAST WISH.
  20. 20.THE DEVIL’S ALBUM.
  21. 21.THE SCHOOLMASTER ABROAD.
  22. 22.THE LOST HEIR.
  23. 23.SKETCHES ON THE ROAD. — THE OBSERVER. — THE CONTRAST.
  24. 24.JOHN DAY. A PATHETIC BALLAD.
  25. 25.THE PARISH REVOLUTION.
  26. 26.THE FURLOUGH. AN IRISH ANECDOTE.
  27. 27.NUMBER ONE. VERSIFIED FROM THE PROSE OF A YOUNG LADY.
  28. 28.THE DROWNING DUCKS.
  29. 29.AN ASSENT TO THE SUMMUT OF MOUNT BLANK.
  30. 30.SALLY SIMPKIN’S LAMENT. OR, JOHN JONES’S KIT-CAT-ASTROPHE.
  31. 31.A HORSE-DEALER
  32. 32.THE FALL.
  33. 33.THE ILLUMINATI.
  34. 34.SONNET.
  35. 35.THE STEAM SERVICE.
  36. 36.A LAY OF REAL LIFE.
  37. 37.A VALENTINE. THE WEATHER. To P. M URPHY , Esq., M.N.S.
  38. 38.THE ELLAND MEETING.
  39. 39.POEM,—FROM THE POLISH.
  40. 40.A STEP-FATHER.
  41. 41.CONVEYANCING.
  42. 42.A LETTER FROM A SETTLER FOR LIFE IN VAN DIEMEN’S LAND.
  43. 43.SONNET.
  44. 44.A SERIO-COMIC REMINISCENCE.
  45. 45.EPICUREAN REMINISCENCES OF A SENTIMENTALIST.
  46. 46.SAINT MARK’S EVE. A TALE OF THE OLDEN TIME.
  47. 47.I’M NOT A SINGLE MAN.
  48. 48.A GREENWICH PENSIONER
  49. 49.THE BURNING OF THE LOVE LETTER.
  50. 50.SKETCHES ON THE ROAD.
  51. 51.THE APPARITION.
  52. 52.THE DISCOVERY.
  53. 53.LITTLE O’P.—AN AFRICAN FACT.
  54. 54.THE DEBUTANTE.
  55. 55.THE ANGLER’S FAREWELL.
  56. 56.POPPING THE QUESTION.
  57. 57.SEA SONG.
  58. 58.THE BLACK AND WHITE QUESTION.
  59. 59.STANZAS ON COMING OF AGE.
  60. 60.THE PILLORY.
  61. 61.A SINGULAR EXHIBITION AT SOMERSET HOUSE.
  62. 62.THE YEOMANRY.
  63. 63.AN UNFAVOURABLE REVIEW.
  64. 64.I’M GOING TO BOMBAY.
  65. 65.“LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP.”
  66. 66.ODE TO THE ADVOCATES FOR THE REMOVAL OF SMITHFIELD MARKET.
  67. 67.DRAWN FOR A SOLDIER.
  68. 68.ODE FOR ST. CECILIA’S EVE.
  69. 69.REFLECTIONS ON WATER.
  70. 70.A BLOW UP.
  71. 71.THE WOODEN LEG.
  72. 72.THE GHOST. A VERY SERIOUS BALLAD.
  73. 73.A TALE OF THE GREAT PLAGUE.
  74. 74.ODE TO MADAME HENGLER, FIREWORK-MAKER TO VAUXHALL.
  75. 75.RHYME AND REASON.
  76. 76.THE DOUBLE KNOCK.
  77. 77.A FOXHUNTER
  78. 78.BAILEY BALLADS.
  79. 79.LINES TO MARY. (AT NO. 1, NEWGATE, FAVOURED BY MR. WONTNER.) — No. II. — No. III.
  80. 80.LETTER FROM A PARISH CLERK IN BARBADOES TO ONE IN HAMPSHIRE, WITH AN ENCLOSURE.
  81. 81.FRENCH AND ENGLISH.
  82. 82.OUR VILLAGE.
  83. 83.THE SCRAPE-BOOK.
  84. 84.A TRUE STORY.
  85. 85.THE SORROWS OF AN UNDERTAKER.
  86. 86.THE CARELESSE NURSE MAYD.
  87. 87.TO FANNY.
  88. 88.THE FANCY FAIR.
  89. 89.POEMS BY A POOR GENTLEMAN. — STANZAS. WRITTEN UNDER THE FEAR OF BAILIFFS. — SONNET. WRITTEN IN A WORKHOUSE. — SONNET.—A SOMNAMBULIST. — FUGITIVE LINES ON PAWNING MY WATCH.
  90. 90.THE LIFE OF ZIMMERMANN. (BY HIMSELF).
  91. 91.THE PORTRAIT: BEING AN APOLOGY FOR NOT MAKING AN ATTEMPT ON MY OWN LIFE.
  92. 92.THE COMPASS, WITH VARIATIONS.
  93. 93.SUMMER—A WINTER ECLOGUE.
  94. 94.PAIR’D NOT MATCH’D.
  95. 95.THE DUEL. A SERIOUS BALLAD.
  96. 96.THE ROPE DANCER. AN EXTRAVAGANZA,—AFTER RABELAIS.
  97. 97.SONNET TO VAUXHALL.
  98. 98.ODE TO MR. MALTHUS.
  99. 99.A GOOD DIRECTION.
  100. 100.THE PLEASURES OF SPORTING.
  101. 101.THERE’S NO ROMANCE IN THAT!
  102. 102.THE ABSTRACTION.
  103. 103.A WATERLOO BALLAD.
  104. 104.MILLER REDIVIVUS.
  105. 105.A ZOOLOGICAL REPORT.
  106. 106.LITERARY REMINISCENCES.
  107. 107.SHOOTING PAINS.
  108. 108.THE SCHOOLMASTER’S MOTTO.

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