The Choice Works of Thomas Hood in Prose And Verse
The book The Choice Works of Thomas Hood in Prose And Verse was written by author Hood, Thomas, 1799-1845 Here you can read free online of The Choice Works of Thomas Hood in Prose And Verse book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Choice Works of Thomas Hood in Prose And Verse a good or bad book?
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My playground was, in short, a Garden of Eden, and I did not even sigh for an Eve; but, like Para- dise, it was too happy to last. I was removed from Mr Steinkopffs to the University of GOttingen, and at once the eyes of six hundred pupils, and the pupils of twelve hundred eyes, seem fastened upon me : I felt like an owl forced into daylight ; often and often I shamm'd ill, as an excuse for confining myself to my chamber, but some officious would-be friends, insisting on coming to sit with me, ...as they said, to enliven my solitude, I was forced as a last resource to do that which subjected me, on the principle of Howard's Prison Discipline, to soli- tary confinement. But even this pleasure did not last ; the heads of the College found out that solitary confinement was no punishment, and put another student in the same cell ; in this extremity I had no alternative but to endeavour to make him a convert to my principles, and in some days I succeeded in convincing him of the individual in- * 'Acinic Annual, 1832.
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