The Tribute: A Miscellaneous Volume in Prose and Verse, with Etched IllustrationsO'Leary, 1833 - 228 pages |
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... sentiments ( though that would be sufficient motive ) but that he thinks the only way in which to win men to your views , if they be just , is by calmly and dispassionately supporting them . If he has succeeded in his attempt to do this ...
... sentiments ( though that would be sufficient motive ) but that he thinks the only way in which to win men to your views , if they be just , is by calmly and dispassionately supporting them . If he has succeeded in his attempt to do this ...
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... sentiment , and for whom even George the fourth could entertain no predilection . Had I played to any of the younger and prettier actresses , their persons might have inspired me , but I felt that to simulate passion for her would be ...
... sentiment , and for whom even George the fourth could entertain no predilection . Had I played to any of the younger and prettier actresses , their persons might have inspired me , but I felt that to simulate passion for her would be ...
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... sentiments to which her heart's deepest echoes respond ; and this impression , the first and strongest , clings fondly to all their future intercourse . He must be very revolting , indeed , if his actual does away with his fancied ...
... sentiments to which her heart's deepest echoes respond ; and this impression , the first and strongest , clings fondly to all their future intercourse . He must be very revolting , indeed , if his actual does away with his fancied ...
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... sentiments were swallowed up by the propensities . These were only fit for a Turk , who had a well- walled Haram and vigilant Eunuchs . Others were all sentiment : effervescing magazines of bottled - up romance , that would burst out ...
... sentiments were swallowed up by the propensities . These were only fit for a Turk , who had a well- walled Haram and vigilant Eunuchs . Others were all sentiment : effervescing magazines of bottled - up romance , that would burst out ...
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... sentiments . I shall have the " delightful task " ( was Thompson ever a school- master ? ) of teaching her " young ideas how to shoot , " and , if I can snatch time from the enjoyment of " sacred wedded love , " to send you an account ...
... sentiments . I shall have the " delightful task " ( was Thompson ever a school- master ? ) of teaching her " young ideas how to shoot , " and , if I can snatch time from the enjoyment of " sacred wedded love , " to send you an account ...
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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.