The Works of Thomas Hood; Vol. 02 (of 11): Comic and Serious, in Prose and Verse, With All the Original IllustrationsHood, Thomas
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The Works of Thomas Hood; Vol. 02 (of 11): Comic and Serious, in Prose and Verse, With All the Original Illustrations
Hood, Thomas
English poetry -- 19th century; English wit and humor; Humorous poetry, English
In short, Madam, we labour under an aggravated complication of
insubordination, deprivation, discomfort, and alarm, daily and nightly,
such as to shock my eyes whilst it grieves my heart, and I may almost
say turns my head to be present at, without sufficient authority to
dictate or power to enforce a course more consistent with the line of
rectitude. As my sway does not extend to Mr. Davis, I humbly beseech
your Ladyship’s interference and influence in the proper quarter,
in behalf, I may say, of a body of persecuted females, some of whom
possess cultivated minds and sensitive feelings beyond their sphere.
I remain, respected Madam,
Your Ladyship’s most obliged and very humble Servant,
AMELIA PHIPPS.
P.S.--One of Mr. Davis’s savage bull-baiting dogs has just rushed with
a frightful crash into the china-closet, in pursuit of the poor cat.
_To Sir Jacob Jubb, Baronet, M.P._
HONNERD SUR,
Yure faver enclosin the Ruings of the Parlimint houses cam dully to
hand, and did indeed put up all the hares on my hed. It cam like the
bust of a thunder bolt. You mite hav nockt me down with the fether of a
ginny ren. My bran swum. I seamed rooted to the hearth--and did not no
weather I was a slip or a wack, on my hed or my heals. I was perfecly
unconshunable, and could no more kollect meself then the Hirish tiths.
I was a long Tim befor I cud perswade meself that the trooth was trew.
But sich a dredful fire is enuff to unsettil wons resin. A thowsend
ears mite role over our heds, and not prodeuce sich a blo to the
constitushun. I was barley sensible. The Currier dropt from my hands
wen I cam to the perrygraft witch says “Our hops are at an end. The
Hous of Communs is a boddy of Flams, and so is the Hous of Pears! The
Lords will be dun!”
[Illustration: GENERAL ELECTION.]
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