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The Works of Thomas Hood (6); Comic and Serious, in Prose and Verse With All the Original Illustrations
The Works of Thomas Hood Comic and Serious in Prose and Verse With All the Original Illustrations - 6 Author:Thomas Hood Volume: 6 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1871 Original Publisher: E. Moxon Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you... more » can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: 1830. [Tnis year was the first year of the " Comic Annual" -- the most popular of all my father's undertakings. The first volume was dedicated to Sir Francis Freeling, and was ushered in by a humorous preface. All the papers written for it by my father were subsequently reprinted in " Hood's Own." As it is not intended to incorporate the two volumes of " Hood's Own " with this edition -- of which they are to form a part as they stand -- the " Comic" will be represented here only by its Preface.] THE COMIC ANNUAL FOR 1830. DEDICATION. To SIR FRANCIS FREELING, Baet., The great Patron of Letters, Foreign, General, and Twopenny, Distinguished alike by his fostering eare of the Bell Letters, and his Antiquarian regard for the Dead Letters ; Whose increasing efforts to forward the spread of Intelligence, as a corresponding Member of all Societies, (and no man fills his Post better,) Have singly, doubly, and trebly endeared him to every class -- This first volume of the " Comic Annual" is, with Frank Permission, gratefully inscribed by TllOMAS HOOP. PREFACE. In the Christmas holidays -- or rather holly days, accordi' to ono of the emblems of the season -- we naturally look mirth. Christmas is strictly a Comic Annual, and its specific gaiety is even implied in tho specific gravity of its oxen. There is an English proverb of "laugh and grow fat," a saying which our graziers interpret -- on the authority of some Prize Oxonian -- by growing the fattest of fat for the merriest of months. The proverb, however, has another sense, implying a connection between c...« less