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... The Living Age - Page 3411905Full view - About this book
| 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 - 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 - 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 - 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... | |
| 1856 - 226 pages
...the stage, by the divine law of charity ? " Mild light, and by degrees, should be the plan To care the dark and erring mind ; But who would rush at a...man And give him two black eyes for being blind." If, as was held by a man of piety and learning — a distinguished writer and an eminent moralist,... | |
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