The tribute; a miscellaneous volume, in prose and verse [by J. O'Leary].1833 |
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... mind dear mother , " lest you may have discover- ed my unauthorised absence , as I repassed the ridgy path to my lofty prison . I mention these matters , merely to shew the early enthusiasm which sup- ported me against the obstacles ...
... mind dear mother , " lest you may have discover- ed my unauthorised absence , as I repassed the ridgy path to my lofty prison . I mention these matters , merely to shew the early enthusiasm which sup- ported me against the obstacles ...
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... 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 in 16.
... 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 in 16.
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... mind quite easy in that res- pect , for I was so engrossed in my professional pursuits , that not even Venus herself could win me from my studies . It gave me some pain to leave the company ; but , as the next weeek ( passion week ) ...
... mind quite easy in that res- pect , for I was so engrossed in my professional pursuits , that not even Venus herself could win me from my studies . It gave me some pain to leave the company ; but , as the next weeek ( passion week ) ...
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... minds o'erthrown . Before his departure he advised me earnestly against pursuing the profession ; but , finding my attachment too strong to be shaken , he gave me a few general rules which I found of the highest im- portance ; and ...
... minds o'erthrown . Before his departure he advised me earnestly against pursuing the profession ; but , finding my attachment too strong to be shaken , he gave me a few general rules which I found of the highest im- portance ; and ...
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... mind in right , " Though proud oppression will not hair me ? I now gave myself up to my dramatic studies with increased ardour ; and though private theatricals , in defiance of all my exertions to keep them alive , ra- pidly declined ...
... mind in right , " Though proud oppression will not hair me ? I now gave myself up to my dramatic studies with increased ardour ; and though private theatricals , in defiance of all my exertions to keep them alive , ra- pidly declined ...
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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...