The cabinet of Irish literature, with biogr. sketches and literary notices by C.A. Read (T.P. O'Connor).Charles Anderton Read 1879 |
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... Lord Halifax , the Duke of Northumberland , Lord Hertford , and Lord Townshend . Now , sir , as to the fact of " intemperate , " I wish to state to you how that stands , and let the honourable member see how plain a tale will put him ...
... Lord Halifax , the Duke of Northumberland , Lord Hertford , and Lord Townshend . Now , sir , as to the fact of " intemperate , " I wish to state to you how that stands , and let the honourable member see how plain a tale will put him ...
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... Lord Harcourt governed , and which is stigmatized by the word " venal . " If every man who accepts an office is " venal " and an " apostate , " I certainly cannot acquit myself of the charge , nor is it necessary . If it be a crime ...
... Lord Harcourt governed , and which is stigmatized by the word " venal . " If every man who accepts an office is " venal " and an " apostate , " I certainly cannot acquit myself of the charge , nor is it necessary . If it be a crime ...
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... Lord bless us ! and what do you think he was doing ? - kissing her hand as if he would eat it ; and protesting and assuring her he knew that you , sir , would consent to the match ; and then the tears ran down her cheeks as fast- Sid ...
... Lord bless us ! and what do you think he was doing ? - kissing her hand as if he would eat it ; and protesting and assuring her he knew that you , sir , would consent to the match ; and then the tears ran down her cheeks as fast- Sid ...
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... lord observed : then , to mend the matter , the moment that he and the colonel got intill a drunken dispute about reli- gion , you slyly slunged away . Eger . I thought , sir , it was time to go when my lord insisted upon half - pint ...
... lord observed : then , to mend the matter , the moment that he and the colonel got intill a drunken dispute about reli- gion , you slyly slunged away . Eger . I thought , sir , it was time to go when my lord insisted upon half - pint ...
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... Lord Townshend . His early oratory was too full of classical imagery and his style too ornate ; but in a short time , as he began to throw his heart more earnestly into his work , these de- fects entirely disappeared . Under the ...
... Lord Townshend . His early oratory was too full of classical imagery and his style too ornate ; but in a short time , as he began to throw his heart more earnestly into his work , these de- fects entirely disappeared . Under the ...
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Page 199 - Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him — But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him.
Page 336 - My life is like the autumn leaf That trembles in the moon's pale ray; Its hold is frail, — its date is brief, Restless, and soon to pass away ! Yet, ere that leaf shall fall and fade, The parent tree will mourn its shade. The winds bewail the leafless tree, — But none shall breathe a sigh for me...
Page 198 - Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Page 35 - ... and predestinated criminals a memorable example to mankind. He resolved, in the gloomy recesses of a mind capacious of such things, to leave the whole Carnatic an everlasting monument of vengeance, and to put perpetual desolation as a barrier between him and those, against whom the faith which holds the moral elements of the world together, was no protection.
Page 200 - The time would e'er be o'er, And I on thee should look my last, And thou shouldst smile no more! And still upon that face I look, And think 'twill smile again; And still the thought I will not brook, That I must look in vain. But when I speak — thou dost not say What thou ne'er...
Page 198 - Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning.
Page 25 - You will observe, that, from Magna Charta to the Declaration of Right, it has been the uniform policy of our Constitution to claim and assert our liberties as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity, — as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom, without any reference whatever to any other more general or prior right.
Page 25 - Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world, and with the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts...
Page 185 - I wish for nothing but to breathe, in this our island, in common with my fellow-subjects, the air of liberty. I have no ambition, unless it be the ambition to break your chain, and contemplate your glory. I never will be satisfied so long as the meanest cottager in Ireland has a link of the British chain clanking to his rags ; he may be naked, he shall not be in...
Page 92 - ... condemn my tongue to silence, and my reputation to reproach? Your executioner may abridge the period of my existence, but while I exist I shall not forbear to vindicate my character and motives from your aspersions; and as a man to whom fame is dearer than life, I will make the last use of that life in doing justice to that reputation which is to live after me, and which is the only legacy I can leave to those I honour and love, and for whom I am proud to perish.