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Thackeray preferred Hood's passion to his fun; and Thackeray knew. Hoodhad an abundance of a certain sort of wit, the wit of odd analogies, ofremote yet familiar resemblances, of quaint conceits and humourous andunexpected quirks. He made not epigrams but jokes, sometimes purelyintellectual but nearly always with the verbal quality as well. Thewonderful jingle called _Miss Kilmansegg_--hard and cold and glitteringas the gold that gleams in it--abounds in capital types of both. But foran example... of both here is a stanza taken at random from the _Ode to theGreat Unknown_:-- 'Thou _Scottish Barmecide_, feeding the hunger Of curiosity with airy gammon; Thou mystery-monger, _Dealing it out like middle cut of salmon_ _That people buy and can't make head or tail of it_, ' and so forth, and so forth: the first a specimen of oddness ofanalogy--the joke intellectual; the second a jest in which theintellectual quality is complicated with the verbal. Of rarer merit arethat conceit of the door which was shut with such a slam 'it sounded likea wooden d---n, ' and that mad description of the demented mariner, -- 'His head was _turned_, and so he _chewed_ _His pigtail_ till he died, '-- which is a pun as unexpected and imaginative as any that exists, notexcepting even Lamb's renowned achievement, the immortal 'I say, Porter, is that your own Hare or a Wig?' But as a punster Hood is merelyunsurpassable.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Thackeray preferred Hood's passion to his fun; and Thackeray knew. Hoodhad an abundance of a certain sort of wit, the wit of odd analogies, ofremote yet familiar resemblances, of quaint conceits and humourous andunexpected quirks. He made not epigrams but jokes, sometimes purelyintellectual but nearly always with the verbal quality as well. Thewonderful jingle called _Miss Kilmansegg_--hard and cold and glitteringas the gold that gleams in it--abounds in capital types of both. But foran example... of both here is a stanza taken at random from the _Ode to theGreat Unknown_:-- 'Thou _Scottish Barmecide_, feeding the hunger Of curiosity with airy gammon; Thou mystery-monger, _Dealing it out like middle cut of salmon_ _That people buy and can't make head or tail of it_, ' and so forth, and so forth: the first a specimen of oddness ofanalogy--the joke intellectual; the second a jest in which theintellectual quality is complicated with the verbal. Of rarer merit arethat conceit of the door which was shut with such a slam 'it sounded likea wooden d---n, ' and that mad description of the demented mariner, -- 'His head was _turned_, and so he _chewed_ _His pigtail_ till he died, '-- which is a pun as unexpected and imaginative as any that exists, notexcepting even Lamb's renowned achievement, the immortal 'I say, Porter, is that your own Hare or a Wig?' But as a punster Hood is merelyunsurpassable.
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