The tribute; a miscellaneous volume, in prose and verse [by J. O'Leary].1833 |
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... amongst those of my own age - got my choice of characters , and was courted by the various private theatres of the town . But I began to wax weary of this local and circumscribed renown . be the unrivalled Roscius of private theatricals ...
... amongst those of my own age - got my choice of characters , and was courted by the various private theatres of the town . But I began to wax weary of this local and circumscribed renown . be the unrivalled Roscius of private theatricals ...
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... amongst my books to select some passage in the event of my being asked to recite by the manager . My mind was too hurried and too agitated to allow of any selection . Confidence was beginning to give way to fear , and for the first time ...
... amongst my books to select some passage in the event of my being asked to recite by the manager . My mind was too hurried and too agitated to allow of any selection . Confidence was beginning to give way to fear , and for the first time ...
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... amongst a crowd of others , who were engaged in " pitch and toss , " bawled out to one of his companions- " Jack , Jack , look at the three showmen !!! " This was too much- -a professor of a liberal art — a living illustrator of the ...
... amongst a crowd of others , who were engaged in " pitch and toss , " bawled out to one of his companions- " Jack , Jack , look at the three showmen !!! " This was too much- -a professor of a liberal art — a living illustrator of the ...
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... amongst the entire company ; and , though it was past twelve o'clock on the night pre- vious to the performance when it came to my turn , I was dead perfect at the next day's rehearsal . Just as I was about to drink from the full cup of ...
... amongst the entire company ; and , though it was past twelve o'clock on the night pre- vious to the performance when it came to my turn , I was dead perfect at the next day's rehearsal . Just as I was about to drink from the full cup of ...
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... Amongst the per- sons present was an officer in the army , another in the preventive service , a person in a confidential situation at the custom - house , and a junior partner in some brewery or distillery . Songs , toasts , and ...
... Amongst the per- sons present was an officer in the army , another in the preventive service , a person in a confidential situation at the custom - house , and a junior partner in some brewery or distillery . Songs , toasts , and ...
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The Tribute: A Miscellaneous Volume, in Prose and Verse (1833) Joseph O'Leary No preview available - 2009 |
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Page 24 - ... 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 160 - 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 211 - 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 224 - 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 30 - 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 163 - Here's much to do with hate, but more with love. Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate! O anything, of nothing first create! O heavy lightness! serious vanity! Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms! Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health! Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is This love feel I, that feel no love in this.
Page 105 - 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 223 - I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum.
Page 157 - 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. No more ! Ham. A king of shreds and patches, — Enter Ghost.
Page 199 - 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...