 | English literature - 1841 - 578 pages
...ought to be, And they brought it in as Felo de Se, " Because her own Leg had killed her !" HER MORAL. Gold) Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and...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,... | |
 | 1842 - 376 pages
...to be, And they brought it in as Felo de Se, " Because her own Leg had killed her !" ?i)cr Jttoral. Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and...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,... | |
 | Theology - 1848 - 620 pages
...thrown away, Might win for us eternal day. THE HOOT OF ALL EVIL. BT THOMAS HOOD. GOLD I gold 1 gold I gold ! Bright and yellow, hard and cold. Molten, graven,...hammer'd, and roll'd ; Heavy to get, and light to held ; Hoarded, barter'd, bought, and sold ; Stolen, borrow'd, equander'd, doled ; Spurned by the young,... | |
 | Thomas Hood - English literature - 1845 - 434 pages
...ought to be, And they brought it in as Felo de Se, " Because her own Leg had killed her !" HER MORAL. Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and...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,... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1845 - 442 pages
...ought to be, And they brought it in as Felo de Se, " Because her own Leg had killed her !" HER MORAL. Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and...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,... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1846 - 672 pages
...ought to be, And they brought it in as Felo de Se, " Because her own Leg had killed her !" HEJl MORAL. Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and...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,... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1847 - 752 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, Molten, graven, hammer'd, and roll M ; Heavy to gt't, and light to hold ; Hoarded, barter'd, bought, and sold, Stolen, borrowed,... | |
 | 1847 - 522 pages
...moral qualities, form the motive influence of the unions. The following moral closes the poem : — " Gold, gold, gold, gold ! Bright and yellow, hard and cold ; Molten, graven, hammered, and rolled ; Heavy to get and light to hold ; Hoarded, bartered, bought, and sold ; Stolen,... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1849 - 430 pages
...from twelve till three What the Verdict ought to be, And they brought it in as Felo de Se, HER MORAL. Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and...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,... | |
 | Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana - Commerce - 1850 - 736 pages
...Thomas 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...hammer'd, and roll'd ; Heavy to get and light to hold ; Hoarded , barter'd, bought and Bold, Stolen, borrow'd, squander'd, doled : Spum'd by the young, but... | |
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Spurn'd by the young, but hugg'd by the old To the very verge of the churchyard mould ; Price of many a crime untold ; Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold... 
