The tribute; a miscellaneous volume, in prose and verse [by J. O'Leary].1833 |
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... looked up the other looked down , when one turned to the right the other inclined to the left , and so on through all their movements . It was owing to this obliquity of vi- sion that I did not at first understand his salute as intended ...
... looked up the other looked down , when one turned to the right the other inclined to the left , and so on through all their movements . It was owing to this obliquity of vi- sion that I did not at first understand his salute as intended ...
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... looked upon the manager as the most cruel of Philistines . Still I was obliged to abide the cast , or abandon the company . I chose the former ; satisfied that some opportunity of exhibiting my talent would occur , and resolved to ...
... looked upon the manager as the most cruel of Philistines . Still I was obliged to abide the cast , or abandon the company . I chose the former ; satisfied that some opportunity of exhibiting my talent would occur , and resolved to ...
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... looked the part . I was receiv- ed with the accustomed applause , and bowed as to a mark of merited approbation . This produced a laugh ; but , as I proceeded , I was heard with a good deal of attention , and some encouraging murmurs ...
... looked the part . I was receiv- ed with the accustomed applause , and bowed as to a mark of merited approbation . This produced a laugh ; but , as I proceeded , I was heard with a good deal of attention , and some encouraging murmurs ...
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... looked to him or the prompter— I felt myself totally independent of them . The sense of the text , though not the words , was perfect in my memory . I made a blank verse which the admiring actors pronounced superior to the author's ...
... looked to him or the prompter— I felt myself totally independent of them . The sense of the text , though not the words , was perfect in my memory . I made a blank verse which the admiring actors pronounced superior to the author's ...
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... looked at our custom - house friend ) we may go quietly to our homes , on a promise of appearing again in the morning . " But he that sent me to the d - 1 ? " asked the serjeant . " Be silent , sir . " We thanked the Major for his ...
... looked at our custom - house friend ) we may go quietly to our homes , on a promise of appearing again in the morning . " But he that sent me to the d - 1 ? " asked the serjeant . " Be silent , sir . " We thanked the Major for 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...