The wounds I might have healed ! The human sorrow and smart ! And yet it never was in my soul To play so ill a part : But evil is wrought by want of Thought, As well as want of Heart... Prose and Verse - Page 209by Thomas Hood - 1845Full view - About this book
| Fashion - 1847 - 464 pages
...OMNIBUS. (A Tale of the Present Dag.) BY ELIZABETH VOUAT T. " The wounds I might have heal'd I The hnman sorrow and smart ! And yet it never was in my soul...wrought by want of thought As well as want of heart." THOMAS HOOD. "Paddington! Paddington! Oxford-street!" exclaimed toe stentorian voice of the conductor... | |
| Fashion - 1870 - 726 pages
...districts, whether towns, villages, or hamlets, where pence and literature are equally scarce — " Evil is wrought by want of thought As well as want of heart." Even where the ameliorating influences of education are presumed to exist (and ho-.v infinitely more... | |
| William Martin - Children's literature - 1877 - 346 pages
...he was fond, or, at any event( on friendly terms ; but it should always be borne in mind that— " Evil is wrought by want of thought, As well as want of heart." And it matters very little to the victim whether the joke was done out of thoughtlessness or heartlessness,... | |
| Thomas Hood - English literature - 1845 - 434 pages
...Spurred by contumely, Cold inhumanity, Burning insanity, Into her rest. — Cross her hands humbly, As if praying dumbly, Over her breast ! Owning her...Thought, As well as want of Heart !" She clasped her fer" '.lit hands, And the tears began to stream ; Large, and bitter, and fast they fell, Remorse was... | |
| American literature - 1846 - 308 pages
...mood ; But I never remembered the wretched ones That starve for want of food. I dressed as the nobles dress, In cloth of silver and gold, With silk, and...fervent hands, And the tears began to stream ; Large and hitter, and fast they fell, Remorse was so extreme : And yet, oh yet, that many a Dame, Would dream... | |
| American literature - 1846 - 302 pages
...; But I never remembered the wretched ones That starve for want of food. ' I dressed as the nobles dress, In cloth of silver and gold, With silk, and...wrought by want of thought, As well as want of Heart !' VOICES OF THE TRUE-HEARTEDShe clasped her fervent hands, And the tears began to stream ; Large and... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1846 - 672 pages
...food ! " I dressed as the noble dress, In cloth of silver and gold, With silk, and satin, and costlf furs, In many an ample fold ; But I never remembered...Thought, As well as want of Heart !" She clasped her fer" .M hands, And the tears began to stream ; Large, and bitter, and fast they fell, Remorse was so... | |
| English literature - 1846 - 588 pages
...selfishness and cruelty of the rich : from the latter we derive the truer and more practical lesson, ' That evil is wrought by want of thought As well as want of heart.' The other poem to which we alluded — The ' Bridge of Sighs,' a funeral chant over a drowned female... | |
| 1859 - 798 pages
...a matter of hahit and education, or rather want of education — often mere thoughtlessness ; for " Evil is wrought by want of thought, As well as want of heart." Of course, there is extravagance in other thingi ; but nothing appears more wanton than the waste of... | |
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