Mirror of Literature,  10 (1827), 423–24.

The Bijou

Anon

Genre:

Literary Notice; Extract

Publications extracted:

Thomas Hood Bijou



[2] A Lament for the Decline of Chivalry. By Thomas Hood, Esq.

Subjects:

Race, Disease, Medical Practitioners, Medical Treatment, Death, Accidents, Machinery


    Referring to the death of King Kamehameha II of the Sandwich Islands, writes: 'at our Black Prince / Historic pens would scoff— / The only one we moderns had / Was nothing but a Sandwich lad, / And measles took him off'. Another stanza reads: 'No iron-crackling now is scor'd, / By dint of battle-axe or sword, / To find a vital place— / Though certain Doctors still pretend / Awhile, before they kill a friend, / To labour through his case'. Urges the 'ancient men of might' to 'Sleep on, in rusty iron sleep, / As in a safety-coffin!'. (423)




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