Theodore Hook Quotes

Shelley styles his new poem "Prometheus Unbound," </br> And 'tis like to remain so while time circles round; </br> For surely an age would be spent in the finding </br> A reader so weak as to pay for the binding!

Cease your humming; </br> The case is "on"; </br> Defendant's Cumming, </br> Plaintiff's—gone!

Cease, ye Etonians! and no more </br> With rival wits contend: </br> Feathers, we know, will float in air, </br> And bubbles will ascend.

When Anacreon would fight, as the poets have said, </br> A reverse he display'd in his vapour, </br> For while all his poems were loaded with lead, </br> His pistols were loaded with paper. For excuses, Anacreon old custom may thank, </br> Such a salvo he should not abuse, </br> For the cartridge, by rule, is always made blank, </br> That is fired away at Reviews.

It seems as if Nature had curiously plann'd </br> That men's names with their trades should agree; </br> There's Twining the Tea-man, who lives in the Strand, </br> Would be whining, if robb'd of his T.

This pair in matrimony </br> Go most unequal snacks: </br> He gets all the Honey, </br> And she gets all the whacks.

Two Miltons in separate ages were born: </br> The cleverer Milton 'tis clear we have got, </br> Though the other had talents the world to adorn, </br> This lives by his mews, which the other could not!

An arch wag has declar'd, that he truly can say </br> Why the Prince did not lay the first stone t'other day: </br> The Restrictions prevented — the reason is clear; </br> The Regent can't meddle in making a pier.