The Works of Thomas Hood, Vol. 3
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Excerpt from The Works of Thomas Hood, Vol. 3: Comic and Serious, in Prose and Verse, With All the Original Illustrations My first idea, on sitting down to prepare a preface for the Second Series of "Hood´s Own," was to have recourse to my father´s prefaces to the old "Comic Annuals," those "Anniversaries of the Literary Fun" (as their wrapper designated them), whose opening speeches I felt sure would be far better than anything I could devise. But any such intention was nipped in the bud by the first one I opened upon. There I found the following passage: - "Nothing is more difficult than to address the Public annually on the same subject: a fact well understood by the Beadle of my old precinct of St. B*** M*** who, as usual, presented me at Christmas tide with a copy of verses. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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