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Richard Harris Barham Quotes

1788–1845 England

Richard Harris Barham (6 December 1788 – 17 June 1845) was an English novelist, humorous poet, and priest in the Church of England. He was known generally by his pseudonym Thomas Ingoldsby and as the author of The Ingoldsby Legends.

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Also known as: Barham, Richard Harris, R. H. Barham, Ingoldsby Legends

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Thrice happy's the wooing that's not long a-doing,
So much time is saved in the billing and cooing.

Now haste ye, my handmaidens, haste and see
How he sits there and glow'rs with his head on his knee!

The Ingoldsby Legends (1837)

A servant's too often a negligent elf;
If it's business of consequence, Do it yourself!

The Ingoldsby Legends (1837)

But wherever they live, or whenever they die,
They'll never get quit of young Hamilton Tighe.

The Ingoldsby Legends (1837)

Here's a corpse in the case with a sad swell'd face,
And a 'Crowner's Quest' is a queer sort of thing!

The Ingoldsby Legends (1837)

He was such a dear little cock-tailed pup.

I was between
A man and a boy, A hobble-de-hoy,
A fat, little, punchy concern of sixteen.

And six little Singing-boys,—dear little souls!
In nice clean faces, and nice white stoles,
Came in order due,
Two by two,
Marching that grand refectory through.

The Ingoldsby Legends (1837)

Never was heard such a terrible curse!
But what gave rise
To no little surprise,
Nobody seem’d one penny the worse!

The Ingoldsby Legends (1837)

And the priests, with awe,
As such freaks they saw,
Said, “The Devil must be in that little Jackdaw!”

The Ingoldsby Legends (1837)

In brief, I don't stick to declare, Father Dick,
So they call him for short, is a regular brick;
A metaphor taken—I have not the page aright—
From an ethical work by the Stagyrite.

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