| Thomas Hood - 1849 - 424 halaman
...the curtain! The careful Betty the pillow beats, And airs the blankets, and smoothes the sheets, > If a ruffled head and a rumpled heart As well as the...wrong way, Tormenting himself with his prickles. But a child—that bids the world good night In downright earnest and cuts it quite— A Cherub no Art can... | |
| Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1849 - 652 halaman
...lie turns his fruits into pickles ; Jealous, envious, and fretful by day. At night tu his own eharp fancies a prey, He lies like a hedge-hog rolled up...Tormenting himself with his prickles. ' But a child, that bide the world good night, In downright earnest, and cuts it quite, A cherub no art can copy, 'Tie... | |
| 1887 - 700 halaman
...later. When was a black-letter reprint of such pieces published ? HP AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. — Lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way, Tormenting himself with hie pricklet. JONATHAN BOUCHIÏE. Sidernm sacro« imitata vultus Quid lates dadum, Rosa? Delicatum... | |
| 1887 - 698 halaman
...later. When was a black-letter reprint of such pieces published ? HP AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED.— Lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way, Tormenting himself with hi« pricklet. JONATHAN BOÜCHISE. Siderum lacros imítala vultna Quid latee dudum, Нова? Delicatum... | |
| C. Gough - 1853 - 428 halaman
...revolution, without ever getting on. AN IRRITABLE MAN. HOOD gives this graphic picture of an irritable man. " He lies like a hedge-hog rolled up the wrong way, tormenting himself with prickles." THE LIFE OF A SCHOLAR, Dr. GOLDSMITH has remarked, " seldom abounds with adventure : his... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1854 - 424 halaman
...envious, and fretful by day, At night, to his own sharp fancies a prey, He lies like a hedgehog roll'd up the wrong way, Tormenting himself with his prickles....good night, In downright earnest and cuts it quite — As if he had supp'd on dormouse pie, (An ancient classical dish by the by) With a sauce of syrup... | |
| John George Wood - 1855 - 492 halaman
...rolled up. Many of my readers will remember that admirable simile of an envious man, who lived " . . . . Like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way, Tormenting himself with his bristles." These bristles, sometimes, are made to serve a rather unexpected use. Mr. Bell has recorded... | |
| James Paul - 1858 - 264 halaman
...rumpled heart, 19* As well as the couch, want making; and the occupant to his own sharp fancies a prey, Lies like a hedgehog, rolled up the wrong way, Tormenting himself with his prickles." "Were you fattened on this?" inquired Mrs. Munson of the portly negro who, in a snowy apron, stood... | |
| Sunbeams - 1861 - 368 halaman
...wing wherewith we fly to heaven. Shakespere. — The sum total of human knowledge. An irritable man lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way, tormenting himself with his own prickles. — Hood. fonagmation. By imagination, we understand a creating power possessed by the... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1862 - 522 halaman
...performs her part, If a ruffled head and a rumpled heart As well as the couch want making. There 's Morbid, all bile, and verjuice, and nerves, Where...his prickles. But a child — that bids the world good-night, In downright earnest, and cuts it quite — A cherub no art can copy, — 'T is a perfect... | |
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