We were all suffering severely from cold, and our fur hoods and the breasts of our fur coats were masses of white frost which had been formed by our breaths.

After its appearance in the London Magazine, of which Hood was then sub-editor, he wrote Lamb a letter on coarse paper purporting to come from a grateful beggar; Lamb did not admit the discovery of the perpetrator of the joke, but soon afterwards Lamb called on Hood when he was ill, and a friendship followed to which we owe Hood's charming recollections of Lambamong the best that were written of him by any one.

After its appearance in the London Magazine, of which Hood was then sub-editor, he wrote Lamb a letter on coarse paper purporting to come from a grateful beggar; Lamb did not admit the discovery of the perpetrator of the joke, but soon afterwards Lamb called on Hood when he was ill, and a friendship followed to which we owe Hood's charming recollections of Lambamong the best that were written of him by any one.

Then said Robin Hood, 'Sir, outlaws breakfasts is vensyon, and you must be content with such fare as we have.'

Robin Hood was a thoroughly national character.

The Robin Hood of our ballads is neither patriot under ban, nor proscribed rebel.

Quoth Robin Hood, "Yon is verily a sorry-looking gallant, and doth seem to have donned ill-content with his jerkin this morning; nevertheless, I will out and talk with him, for there may be some pickings here for a hungry daw.

Crabbe had a hard youth, but after that a certain and settled competence; Hood's was also a youth of struggle, but struggle was his destiny to the end.

It has often been suggested that Robin Hood is a corruption, or dialectic form, of Robin of the Wood; and when we remember that wood is pronounced hood in some parts of England, (as whoop is pronounced hoop everywhere,) and that the outlaw bears in so many languages a name descriptive of his habitation, this notion will not seem an idle fancy.

The fact is, this dark hood is the bird's wedding dress.

For, though Robin Hood and his band may be outlaws, yet he taketh only from the rich and the strong and the dishonest man, while there is not a poor widow nor a peasant with many children, nigh to Sherwood, but has barley flour enough all the year long through him.

O Mr. Hood & Mr. Jerdan there, thine, C (urbanus) L (sylvanus) (ELIA ambo) Inclos'd are verses which Emma sat down to write, her first, on the eve after your departure.

All literature is but a dream expressed, and "Robin Hood" is the dream of an ignorant and oppressed but essentially noble people, struggling and determined to be free.

Robert Hood is a citizen of Wakefield, Yorkshire, whom Mr. Hunter (p. 47) "may be justly charged with carrying supposition too far" in striving to identify with Robin the porter.

HOOD was a great General, so was NAP 3, but they tell me that Nashville and Saarbrucken are terrible commentaries on greatness.

And suddenly high above the swaying crowd rose the head and shoulders of a man, a mighty man in the dusty habit of a miller, upon whose low-drawn hood and be-floured smock were great gouts and stains evil and dark; and now, beholding what manner of stains these were, all men fell silent and blenched from his path.

If I get but a copy, I only expect it from Hood's being my friend.

Robin Hood is the true ballad hero, the darling of the common people as Arthur was of the nobles.

I had seen him in such a dress in our winter campaign in Poland, and it was said that he used it because the hood was such an excellent disguise.

Hood was the [TR: illegible word] he thinks, but he was given to Captain Condennens to wait on him.

Robert Hood is surety for a burgess returned for Lostwithiel, Cornwall.

But genius, goodness, many friends, no enemy, the consciousness of imparting enjoyment to multitudes, and to no man wretchedness, a heart alive with all that is tender and gentle, and strong to manful and noble purpose and achievement,these are grand compensations,compensations for even more ills than Hood was heir to; and with such compensations Hood was largely blessed.

It was absolutely impossible that they should arise while Robin Hood was a living reality to the people.

That was, my lord, but now is Robert Hood; A simple yeoman, as his servants were. WIFE.

Hood is a writer to whom, in his degree, we may apply the epithet Shakspearian.