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" Mild light, and by degrees, should be the plan To cure the dark and erring mind ; But who would rush at a benighted man, And give him two black eyes for being blind... "
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 31
1905
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The Living Age, Volume 244

1905 - 864 pages
...better things In the- future, remembering that if hard words break no bones, they cer358 359 talnly will not mend those that are already broken. Mild...For Boy as well as for other people a dearly bought experience may in the long-run turn out to be the most efficient teacher. These are the chief things...
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Poems, Volume 2

Thomas Hood - 1846 - 672 pages
...hanker Like crazy Quixotic at the puppet's play, If their " offence be rank," should mine be rancour ? Mild light, and by degrees, should be the plan To...benighted man, And give him two black eyes for being blind ? Suppose the tender but luxuriant hop Around a canker'd stem should twine, What Kentish boor would...
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Poems, Volume 1

Thomas Hood - 1847 - 256 pages
...hanker Like crazy Quixotte at the puppet's play, If their " offence be rank," should mine be rancour? Mild light, and by degrees, should be the plan To...benighted man, And give him two black eyes for being blind ? Suppose the tender but luxuriant hop Around a canker'd stem should twine, What Kentish boor would...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood

Thomas Hood - 1854 - 480 pages
...hanker Like crazy Quixotte at the puppet's play, If their " offence be rank," should mine be rancour? Mild light, and by degrees, should be the plan To...benighted man, And give him two black eyes for being blind I Suppose the tender but luxuriant hop Around a canker'd stem should twine. What Kentish boor would...
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Poems

Thomas Hood - 1854 - 424 pages
...hanker Like crazy Quixotte at the puppet's play, If their " offence be rank," should mine be rancour ? Mild light, and by degrees, should be the plan To...benighted man, And give him two black eyes for being blind ? Suppose the tender but luxuriant hop Around a canker' d stem should twine, What Kentish boor would...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood, with a Biographical Sketch

Thomas Hood - 1854 - 536 pages
...hanker Like crazy Quixotte at the puppet's play, If their "offence be rank," should mine be rancor ? Mild light, and by degrees, should be the plan To...benighted man, And give him two black eyes for being blind 1 What Kentish boor would tear away the prop So roughly as to wound, nay, kill the bine ? The images,...
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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 35

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1855 - 590 pages
...of his mind and creed ; and if the reader think him wrong and blind, who, as he himself says — " Who would rush at a benighted man, And give him two black eyes for being blind ?" " I do confess that I abhor and shrink From schemes, with a religious willy-willy, That frown upon...
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Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and ..., Volumes 46-47

1855 - 1226 pages
...bit of his mind and creed ; and if the reader think him wrong and blind, who, as he himself says — "Who would rush at a benighted man, And give him two black eyes for being blind ?" " I do confess that I abhor and shrink Prom schemes, with a religions willy-willy, That frown npon...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood, Volume 2

Thomas Hood - 1856 - 358 pages
...hanker Like crazy Quixotte at the puppet's play, If their" offence be rank," should mine be rancour? Mild light, and by degrees, should be the plan To...benighted man, And give him two black eyes for being blind ? Suppose the tender but luxuriant hop Around a canker'd stem should twine, What Kentish boor would...
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The Humorous Poetry of the English Language: From Chaucer to Saxe

James Parton - 1856 - 720 pages
...puppet's play, If their " offense be rank," should mine be rancor f Mild light, and by degrees, should bo the plan To cure the dark and erring mind ; But who...benighted man, And give him two black eyes for being blind ? Suppose the tender but luxuriant hop Around a cankered stem should twine, What Kentish boor would...
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