Thomas Hood citáty

Thomas Hood byl anglický básník a humorista, otec spisovatelů Toma Hooda a Frances Freeling Broderip. Narodil se v Londýně do rodiny se skotskými předky. Později byl poslán právě do Skotska, kde přispíval humoristickými a poetickými texty do místních novin a časopisů. V roce 1818 se vrátil zpět do Londýna. Později přispíval například do časopisu The London Magazine. Zemřel roku 1845 ve věku 45 let ve svém rodném městě. Wikipedia  

✵ 23. květen 1799 – 3. květen 1845
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Thomas Hood: Citáty anglicky

“Home-made dishes that drive one from home.”

Her Honeymoon; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
20th century

“Alas! for the rarity
Of Christian charity
Under the sun!”

Thomas Hood The Bridge of Sighs

The Bridge of Sighs (1844), st. 9.
1840s

“Boughs are daily rifled
By the gusty thieves,
And the book of Nature
Getteth short of leaves.”

The Season; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
20th century

“There's a double beauty whenever a swan
Swims on a lake with her double thereon.”

Her Honeymoon; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
20th century

“Oh, God! that bread should be so dear,
And flesh and blood so cheap!”

St. 5.
1840s, The Song of the Shirt (1843)

“Thus she stood amid the stooks,
Praising God with sweetest looks.”

Ruth; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
20th century

“Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold!
Bright and yellow, hard and cold.”

Her Moral; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
20th century

“We watched her breathing through the night,
Her breathing soft and low,
As in her breast the wave of life
Kept heaving to and fro.”

Thomas Hood The Death-Bed

The Death-Bed; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
20th century

“Spurned by the young, but hugged by the old
To the very verge of the churchyard mould.”

Her Moral; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
20th century

“Our very hopes belied our fears,
Our fears our hopes belied;
We thought her dying when she slept,
And sleeping when she died.”

Thomas Hood The Death-Bed

The Death-Bed; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
20th century

“Peace and rest at length have come
All the day's long toil is past,
And each heart is whispering, "Home,
Home at last."”

Home at last; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
20th century

“Another tumble! That's his precious nose!”

Parental Ode to my infant Son; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
20th century

“Oh would I were dead now,
Or up in my bed now,
To cover my head now,
And have a good cry!”

A Table of Errata; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
20th century

“When he is forsaken,
Withered and shaken,
What can an old man do but die?”

Spring it is cheery; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
20th century

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