The Tribute: A Miscellaneous Volume in Prose and Verse, with Etched IllustrationsO'Leary, 1833 - 228 pages |
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... acquaintance with the man himself to discover the sterling qualities of head and heart by which he is peculiarly characterised - the retiring and almost timid modesty which ever accompanies true merit . Two of the illustrations- " When ...
... acquaintance with the man himself to discover the sterling qualities of head and heart by which he is peculiarly characterised - the retiring and almost timid modesty which ever accompanies true merit . Two of the illustrations- " When ...
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... acquaintance , I could not think the sign was for me , until , at length , recog- nising the features of a girl who made her first ap- pearance as Belvidera to my Jaffier . I flew delighted to meet her . I had a kind of dreamy ...
... acquaintance , I could not think the sign was for me , until , at length , recog- nising the features of a girl who made her first ap- pearance as Belvidera to my Jaffier . I flew delighted to meet her . I had a kind of dreamy ...
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... acquaintance . The easy air of familiarity which he had acquired in the course of his professional wanderings , together with an assumed foppery of tone , that to my inexperience exhibited the gentleman breaking through the cloud of his ...
... acquaintance . The easy air of familiarity which he had acquired in the course of his professional wanderings , together with an assumed foppery of tone , that to my inexperience exhibited the gentleman breaking through the cloud of his ...
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... acquaintance with Cicero . At one time he nettled me not a little by a stale green - room joke . " Repeat me , " says Tully , Norval's account of himself . " I commenced in my best style ; but had scarcely pro- ceeded to the second line ...
... acquaintance with Cicero . At one time he nettled me not a little by a stale green - room joke . " Repeat me , " says Tully , Norval's account of himself . " I commenced in my best style ; but had scarcely pro- ceeded to the second line ...
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... acquainted with your author - your health ; or hit out new points which may catch an audience . " " No indeed sir . " " Well then - why the devil dont you fill your glass ? —my advice to you is to avoid company - avoid drinking . I know ...
... acquainted with your author - your health ; or hit out new points which may catch an audience . " " No indeed sir . " " Well then - why the devil dont you fill your glass ? —my advice to you is to avoid company - avoid drinking . I know ...
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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.