The Tribute: A Miscellaneous Volume in Prose and Verse, with Etched IllustrationsO'Leary, 1833 - 228 pages |
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... abuse us . He was about as vulgar and canting a fellow as ever disgraced a pulpit , or murdered the beautiful composition of the book of Common Prayer . He had all the cant but none of the ardor of metho- dism . On our return Talbot ...
... abuse us . He was about as vulgar and canting a fellow as ever disgraced a pulpit , or murdered the beautiful composition of the book of Common Prayer . He had all the cant but none of the ardor of metho- dism . On our return Talbot ...
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... abuses would render this an undertaking of some danger , and consequently would require it to be effected with much secrecy - Here is the greatest obstacle . I have remarked in the course of my Phrenological studies - and indeed the old ...
... abuses would render this an undertaking of some danger , and consequently would require it to be effected with much secrecy - Here is the greatest obstacle . I have remarked in the course of my Phrenological studies - and indeed the old ...
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... love , -to love's withering flame , Such purity ne'er was given , On earth ' tis abused under friendship's name , Perhaps it is love - in Heaven . On a Fruit Knife with the Inscription " WHO IS 132 "I have a Deep and Secret Shrine,"
... love , -to love's withering flame , Such purity ne'er was given , On earth ' tis abused under friendship's name , Perhaps it is love - in Heaven . On a Fruit Knife with the Inscription " WHO IS 132 "I have a Deep and Secret Shrine,"
Page 135
... all the blessings and advan- tages which self - government confers . The state of society which O'Connell seems created to reform is widely different ; the abuses he is destined to rectify , are more numerous and complex . 135 Mr O'Connell,
... all the blessings and advan- tages which self - government confers . The state of society which O'Connell seems created to reform is widely different ; the abuses he is destined to rectify , are more numerous and complex . 135 Mr O'Connell,
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... abuse . Thus , if you admit the evidence of both parties , and take the character of the population from their united testimony , there is not on the face of the earth such a set of robbers , savages , and out - laws on the one hand ...
... abuse . Thus , if you admit the evidence of both parties , and take the character of the population from their united testimony , there is not on the face of the earth such a set of robbers , savages , and out - laws on the one hand ...
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Page 22 - ... in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance, that may give it smoothness. O, it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings...
Page 154 - List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in music : Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter...
Page 205 - Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God afraid of me: Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne, Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone.
Page 153 - A murderer and a villain ; A slave that is not twentieth part the tithe Of your precedent lord ; a vice of kings ; A cutpurse of the empire and the rule, That from a shelf the precious diadem stole, And put it in his pocket ! Queen.
Page 218 - Lines Written in Early Spring I HEARD a thousand blended notes, While in a grove I sate reclined, In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts Bring sad thoughts to the mind. To her fair works did Nature link The human soul that through me ran; And much it grieved my heart to think What man has made of man. Through primrose tufts, in that green bower, The periwinkle trailed its wreaths; And 'tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes.
Page 28 - The noble sister of Poplicola, The moon of Rome ; chaste as the icicle That's curdled by the frost from purest snow, And hangs on Dian's temple This is no more than illustrating a quality of the mind, by comparing it with a sensible object.
Page 102 - Too like the lightning that doth cease to be Ere one can say 'It lightens.' ' 149. Confusion. Ruin, destruction ; as in Macb. ii. 3. 71, iii. 5. 29, etc. The word is here a quadrisyllable. Gr. 479. Cf. patience, three lines below.
Page 217 - I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum.
Page 193 - Gothic empire, be yet tumbling and tossing upon the bed of sickness, they cannot die ; nor is there any means of recovery for them but by ancient prudence, whence of necessity it must come to pass that this drug be better known. If France, Italy, and Spain were not all sick, all corrupted together, there would be none of them so; for the sick would not be able to withstand the sound, nor the sound to preserve their health, without curing of the sick. The first of these nations (which if you stay...
Page 85 - COME, here's a health to thee and thine ! Trust me, whate'er we may be told, Few things are better than old wine, When tasted with a friend that's old.