Mild light, and by degrees, should be the plan To cure the dark and erring mind ; But who would rush at a benighted man, And give him two black eyes for being blind... Littell's Living Age - Page 3511905Full view - About this book
| 1905 - 864 pages
...things In the- future, remembering that if hard words break no bones, they cer358 359 talnly will not mend those that are already broken. Mild light and...things that come between you and your rest, Cornelia, as you think of Boy at the beginning of his first term at the Public School. For you have long since... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1846 - 672 pages
...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 plan To...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
...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 plan To...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 - Humorous poetry, American - 1854 - 480 pages
...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 plan To...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 - 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,... | |
| Thomas Hood - English poetry - 1854 - 424 pages
...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 plan To...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... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 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
...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 plan To...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... | |
| James Parton - English poetry - 1856 - 720 pages
...puppet's play, If their " offense be rank," should mine be rancor f Mild light, and by degrees, should bo the plan To cure the dark and erring mind ; But who...benighted man, And give him two black eyes for being blind ? Suppose the tender but luxuriant hop Around a cankered stem should twine, What Kentish boor would... | |
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