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Contents. List of Illustrations

THE

COMIC POEMS

OF

THOMAS   HOOD.

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THE COMIC POEMS
OF
THOMAS HOOD.

WITH A PREFACE BY
THOMAS HOOD THE YOUNGER.

A NEW AND COMPLETE EDITION.





LONDON:
E. MOXON, SON, AND COMPANY,
DORSET BUILDINGS, SALISBURY SQUARE, E.C.
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Ballantyne Press
BALLANTYNE AND HANSON, EDINBURGH
CHANDOS STREET, LONDON
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PREFACE.

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If the general public, acquainted only with the comic works of ThomasHood, were taken by surprise when they found how he could handle seriousand solemn themes; those who saw him in the flesh must have been equallyastonished to learn how grave and melancholy a man the famous wit was toall appearance. The chronic ill health, which gave this expression tohis countenance, was, however, powerless to affect the tone of his mind.“Here lies one who spat more blood and made more puns than any manliving,” was the epitaph he half-jestingly proposed for himself. Theconnection between the disease and the comic faculty is not sounreasonable as it appears at first. The invalid, who could supply mirthfor millions while he himself was propped up with pillows on the bed ofsickness, was not a jester whose sole stock in trade consisted in mereanimal spirits—which are too often mistaken for wit, but have in commonwith other spirits a tendency to evaporate somewhat rapidly. Hood’s witwas the fruit of an even temperament, a cheery and contented mindendowed with a keen appreciat

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