(¡old! Gold ! Gold! Gold ! Bright and yellow, hard and cold, Molten, graven, hammer'd, and roll'd ; Heavy to get, and light to hold ; Hoarded, barter'd, bought, and sold ; Stolen, borrow'd, squander'd, doled : Spurn'd by the young, but hugg'd by the... Scribners Monthly - Page 4361874Full view - About this book
| 1842 - 376 pages
...to be, And they brought it in as Felo de Se, " Because her own Leg had killed her !" JHotal. Gold I Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold,...young, but hugg'd by the old To the very verge of the churchy ax&mwiX&A Price of many a crime untold ; Gold! Gold I Gold I Gold: Good or bad a thousand-fold!... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1846 - 672 pages
...debated from twelve till three What the Verdict ought to be, And they brought it in as Felo de Se, Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold,...hugg'd by the old To the very verge of the churchyard mould; Price of many a crime untold ; Gold ! Gold! Gold ! Gold: Good or bad a thousand-fold ! How widely... | |
| Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1847 - 672 pages
...naught were naughty.' The * moral' of one's living and dying for gold is thus forcibly summed up: 'GOLD! Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold,...Hoarded, barter'd, bought, and sold, Stolen, borrow'd, equander'd, doled : Spurn'd by tlie young, but hugg'd by the old To the very verge of the church-yard... | |
| Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1847 - 752 pages
...were naughty.' The * moral' of one's living and dying for gold is thus forcibly summed up : •GOLD! Gold! Gold! Gold ! Bright and yellow, hard and cold, Molten, graven, hammer'd, and roll M ; Heavy to gt't, and light to hold ; Hoarded, barter'd, bought, and sold, Stolen, borrowed,... | |
| 1850 - 708 pages
...Hood sing,—Hood, with laughter always on his lip, and with seriousness ever in his soul,— "GoldI gold! gold! gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold....bought and sold, Stolen, borrow'd, squander'd, doled : Spum'd by the young, but hugg'd by the old To the very verge of the churchyard-mold ; Price of many... | |
| Commerce - 1850 - 718 pages
...Hood sing,—Hood, with laughter always on his lip, and with seriousness ever in his soul,— "Gold! gold! gold! gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold,...light to hold; Hoarded, barter'd, bought and sold, Stolen,borrow'd, squander'd, doled: Spurn'd by the young, but hugg'd by the old To the very verge of... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1853 - 422 pages
...be, And they brought it in as Felo de Se, MISS KILMANSEGG AND HER PRECIOUS LEG. 170 HER MORAL. Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold,...Hoarded, barter'd, bought, and sold, Stolen, borrow'd, squandered, doled : Spurn'd by the young, but hugg'd by the old To the very verge of the churchyard... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1854 - 428 pages
...be, And they brought it in as Felo de Se, " Because her own Leg had killed her I" HER MORAL. Gold Ï Gold ! Gold ! Gold ! Bright and yellow, hard and cold,...borrow'd, squander'd, doled : Spurn'd by the young, but huggM by the old To the very verge of the churchyard mould ; Price of many a crime untold ; Gold !... | |
| British history - 1855 - 482 pages
...pleasure, as well as with thankfulness, of the rich Gold-Diggings of California and Australia. Gold I gold ! gold ! gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold,...squander'd, doled : Spurn'd by the young, but hugg'd by the ol To the very verge of the church-yard mouli Price of many a crime untold! Gold ! gold ! gold I gold!... | |
| Albany De Fonblanque - 1860 - 360 pages
...there's an end of it. So now I think I'll go and wash my hands." FORTUNE HUNTING. CHAPTER I. Gold! gold! gold! gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold,...hugg'd by the old To the very verge of the churchyard mould; Price of many a crime untold, Gold! gold! gold! gold! Good or bad a thousand fold.—Hoor. GOLD.... | |
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