. The poetical works of Thomas Hood. With a memoir of the author ... e upon the first of Men The apple pressed with specious cant, O, what a thousand pities thenThat Adam was not Adamant. XI. THE PURSUIT OF LETTERS. The Germans for Learning enjoy great repute,But the English make Letters still more a pursuit ;For a Cockney will go from the banks of the ThamesTo Cologne for an (9, and to Nassau for A CERTAIN LOCALITY. Of public changes, good or ill,I seldom lead the mooters, But really Constitution Hill Should change its name with Shoot- ers: XXIII. PARTY SPIRIT. Why did you not dine, s


. The poetical works of Thomas Hood. With a memoir of the author ... e upon the first of Men The apple pressed with specious cant, O, what a thousand pities thenThat Adam was not Adamant. XI. THE PURSUIT OF LETTERS. The Germans for Learning enjoy great repute,But the English make Letters still more a pursuit ;For a Cockney will go from the banks of the ThamesTo Cologne for an (9, and to Nassau for A CERTAIN LOCALITY. Of public changes, good or ill,I seldom lead the mooters, But really Constitution Hill Should change its name with Shoot- ers: XXIII. PARTY SPIRIT. Why did you not dine, said a Lordto a Wit,* With the Whigs, you political sin-ner : Why, really, I meant, but had doubtshow the Pit Of my stomach would bear a Fox din-ner. EX-POSr-FACTO I. ON THE DEATH OF THE GIRAFFE. They say, God wot! She died upon the spot : But then in spots she was so rich,- 1 wonder which ? II. ON THE REMOVAL OF A MENAGERIE. Let Exeter Change lament its change,Its beasts and other losses ;—Another place thrives by its Charing has two Crosses,.


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