The tribute; a miscellaneous volume, in prose and verse [by J. O'Leary].1833 |
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... friends " is too maudlin and threadbare ; besides , as the matter is not worth telling a lie about , I may as well confess , with Peter Pindar's razor - dealer , that it was made to sell . ” 66 Whatever of literary vanity may have been ...
... friends " is too maudlin and threadbare ; besides , as the matter is not worth telling a lie about , I may as well confess , with Peter Pindar's razor - dealer , that it was made to sell . ” 66 Whatever of literary vanity may have been ...
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... friend Mr. M'Daniel ; who , unsolicited , kindly proffered his service . Of Mr. M'Daniel's talents as an artist it does not become me to speak . His productions are his best panegyric : but , though they tell of his genius and progress ...
... friend Mr. M'Daniel ; who , unsolicited , kindly proffered his service . Of Mr. M'Daniel's talents as an artist it does not become me to speak . His productions are his best panegyric : but , though they tell of his genius and progress ...
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... friend , and thence to the place of performance . When the excitement of the scene was over , and the applause of the audience died away on my ear , " oh ! full of scorpions was my my mind dear mother , " lest you may have discover- ed ...
... friend , and thence to the place of performance . When the excitement of the scene was over , and the applause of the audience died away on my ear , " oh ! full of scorpions was my my mind dear mother , " lest you may have discover- ed ...
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... friends in the town , I did not choose to make myself known to them , lest my whereabout and whatabout may reach the ears of my mother , whose suspicions I lulled by pretending a visit to the country . My only resource for killing time ...
... friends in the town , I did not choose to make myself known to them , lest my whereabout and whatabout may reach the ears of my mother , whose suspicions I lulled by pretending a visit to the country . My only resource for killing time ...
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... friend pro- cured him an humble situation in one of the public offices in Dublin , where he died of the bottle ; adding one instance more to the melancholy catalogue of great powers perverted , and noble minds o'erthrown . Before his ...
... friend pro- cured him an humble situation in one of the public offices in Dublin , where he died of the bottle ; adding one instance more to the melancholy catalogue of great powers perverted , and noble minds o'erthrown . Before his ...
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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...