Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one.

Walter Savage Landor

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Topic

Jokes Failure

Speaker

Chatham

Author

Walter Savage Landor

Language

English

Time

1825 1820s 19th century

Occupation

Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Landor, Walter Savage. "Chesterfield and Chatham." Imaginary Conversations. c. 1825.

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There is a silence where hath been no sound,
There is a silence where no sound may be,
In the cold grave-under the deep, deep sea.

Thomas Hood

Silence

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Topic
Silence Death

Author

Thomas Hood
Source
Silence
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1827 1820s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Hood, Thomas. "Silence." The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, Hero and Leander, Lycus the Centaur and Other Poems. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green/Philadelphia: E. Littell, 1827.

Current Citation

Hood, Thomas. "Silence." Selected Poems of Thomas Hood. Harvard University Press, 1970.