. The poetical works of Thomas Hood. With a memoir of the author ... LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Artist. Engraver. Portrait - - . - - The Elm Tree - - - The Song of the Shirt - The Last Man - The Lost Heir - - - - The Ladys Dream The Dream of Eugene Aram - Ruth The Bridge of Sighs •• Take her up tenderly/The Bridge of Sighs Glad to deaths mystery,* To A False Friend Queen Mab - - - - The Lay of the Laborer - Page I G. Dodgson. L G. Pesoa. 57 Sol. Eytinge Jr. A. V. S. Anthony. 76 Sol. Eytinge Jr. A. V. S. Anthony. 136 Sol. Eytinge Jr. A. V. S. Anthony. 190 Gustave Dore. L G. Pesoa. 221 Gustave Dore.
. The poetical works of Thomas Hood. With a memoir of the author ... LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Artist. Engraver. Portrait - - . - - The Elm Tree - - - The Song of the Shirt - The Last Man - The Lost Heir - - - - The Ladys Dream The Dream of Eugene Aram - Ruth The Bridge of Sighs •• Take her up tenderly/The Bridge of Sighs Glad to deaths mystery,* To A False Friend Queen Mab - - - - The Lay of the Laborer - Page I G. Dodgson. L G. Pesoa. 57 Sol. Eytinge Jr. A. V. S. Anthony. 76 Sol. Eytinge Jr. A. V. S. Anthony. 136 Sol. Eytinge Jr. A. V. S. Anthony. 190 Gustave Dore. L G. Pesoa. 221 Gustave Dore. L G. Pesoa. 273 Giisteve Dore. L G. Pesoa. 331 Gustave Dore. L G. Pesoa. 373 Gustave Dore. L G. Pesoa. 374 James Godwin. L G. Pesoa. 390 Gustave Dore. L G. Pesoa. 474 From design by Etching Club. 534 ?Mun^Bnaa M.«M**«aM*«iaattiMtbaa« MMttMUM>&. ipaaika^iaMtaMaoaaB MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR. BY RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES. Thomas Hood, humorist and poet, was born at London in 1798. He was theson of Mr. Hood, bookseller, of the firm of Vernor and Hood, a man of intelli-gence, and the author of two novels. *Next to being a citizen of the world,writes Thomas Hood in his Lite7ary Reminiscences, it must be the best thingto be born a citizen of the worlds greatest city. The best incident of his boy-hood was his instruction by a schoolmaster who appreciated his talents, and, as hesays, made him feel it impossible not to take an interest in learning while heseemed so interested in teaching/ Under the care of this * decayed dominie,whom he has so affectionately recorded, he earned a few guineas—his first literaryfee—by revising for the press a new edition of Paul and Virginia, Admitted soon after into the counting-house of a friend of his family, he turned his stool into a Pegasus on three legs, every foot, of course, being a dactylor a sp
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