Theodore Hook

Quotes

• “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.”
• “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!”
• “When Anacreon would fight, as the poets have said,    A reverse he display'd in his vapour, For while all his poems were loaded with lead,    His pistols were loaded with paper. For excuses, Anacreon old custom may thank,    Such a salvo he should not abuse, For the cartridge, by rule, is always made blank,    That is fired away at Reviews.”
• “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!”
• “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.”

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