Theodore Hook Quotes
1788–1841 England
Theodore Edward Hook (22 September 1788 – 24 August 1841) was an English man of letters and composer and briefly a civil servant in Mauritius.
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This pair in matrimony
Go most unequal snacks:
He gets all the Honey,
And she gets all the whacks.
Cease, ye Etonians! and no more
With rival wits contend:
Feathers, we know, will float in air,
And bubbles will ascend.
Cease your humming;
The case is "on";
Defendant's Cumming,
Plaintiff's—gone!
Shelley styles his new poem "Prometheus Unbound,"
And 'tis like to remain so while time circles round;
For surely an age would be spent in the finding
A reader so weak as to pay for the binding!
It seems as if Nature had curiously plann'd
That men's names with their trades should agree;
There's Twining the Tea-man, who lives in the Strand,
Would be whining, if robb'd of his T.
Two Miltons in separate ages were born:
The cleverer Milton 'tis clear we have got,
Though the other had talents the world to adorn,
This lives by his mews, which the other could not!
An arch wag has declar'd, that he truly can say
Why the Prince did not lay the first stone t'other day:
The Restrictions prevented — the reason is clear;
The Regent can't meddle in making a pier.