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“And lo! the universal air
Seemed lit with ghastly flame;
Ten thousand thousand dreadful eyes
Were looking down in blame.”

Thomas Hood

1840s, The Dream of Eugene Aram

“Seem'd washing his hands with invisible soap
In imperceptible water.”

Thomas Hood

Miss Kilmansegg and Her Precious Leg. Her Christening http://www.gerald-massey.org.uk/eop_hood_poetical_works_3.htm#115, st. 10 (1841-1843). <br class="br">1840s

“Even God's providence
Seeming estranged.”

Thomas Hood The Bridge of Sighs

The Bridge of Sighs (1844).
1840s

“I remember, I remember
The fir-trees dark and high;
I used to think their slender tops
Were close against the sky:
It was a childish ignorance,
But now 'tis little joy
To know I'm farther off from Heaven
Than when I was a boy.”

Thomas Hood

I Remember, I Remember, st. 4.
1820s

“Never go to France
Unless you know the lingo,
If you do, like me,
You will repent, by jingo.”

Thomas Hood

French and English, st. 1 (1839).
1830s

“And there is ev'n a happiness
That makes the heart afraid!”

Thomas Hood

Ode to Melancholy http://www.gerald-massey.org.uk/eop_hood_poetical_works_2.htm#057, st. 6 (1827). <br class="br">1820s

“A wife who preaches in her gown,
And lectures in her night-dress.”

Thomas Hood

The Surplice Question; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
20th century

“He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way,
Tormenting himself with his prickles.”

Thomas Hood

Miss Kilmansegg and Her Precious Leg. Her Dream http://www.gerald-massey.org.uk/eop_hood_poetical_works_4.htm#146 (Part the Third, 1840). <br class="br">1840s

“Ben Battle was a soldier bold,
And used to war's alarms;
But a cannon-ball took off his legs,
So he laid down his arms.”

Thomas Hood

Faithless Nellie Gray; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
20th century

“Sewing at once a double thread,
A shroud as well as a shirt.”

Thomas Hood

1840s, The Song of the Shirt (1843)