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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... heart , - " That I was a man whom the most lucrative office of the land had never warped in point of integrity . " The words were marked , and I am sure I repeat them fairly ; they are words I should be proud to have inscribed on my ...
... heart , - " That I was a man whom the most lucrative office of the land had never warped in point of integrity . " The words were marked , and I am sure I repeat them fairly ; they are words I should be proud to have inscribed on my ...
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... heart is aw jollity , fun , and guid fellowship ; and , sir , can there be a hap- pier moment than that for a bargain , or to settle a dispute with a friend ? What is it you shrug up your shoulders at , sir ? Eger . How do you mean by ...
... heart is aw jollity , fun , and guid fellowship ; and , sir , can there be a hap- pier moment than that for a bargain , or to settle a dispute with a friend ? What is it you shrug up your shoulders at , sir ? Eger . How do you mean by ...
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... heart , and fluttered , and beat , and knocked , and knocked , but the devil an entrance I ever let it get ; for I observed , sir , that beauty is , generally , a proud , vain , saucy , expensive , impertinent sort of a commodity . Eger ...
... heart , and fluttered , and beat , and knocked , and knocked , but the devil an entrance I ever let it get ; for I observed , sir , that beauty is , generally , a proud , vain , saucy , expensive , impertinent sort of a commodity . Eger ...
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... heart more earnestly into his work , these de- fects entirely disappeared . Under the administration of Lord Bucking- ham he obtained the rank of prime sergeant or first law - officer of Ireland , an office which his popularity at the ...
... heart more earnestly into his work , these de- fects entirely disappeared . Under the administration of Lord Bucking- ham he obtained the rank of prime sergeant or first law - officer of Ireland , an office which his popularity at the ...
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... heart ! my love - struck heart ! Thou , too , like the poor bird art wounded . Within thee rankles love's keen dart , And with love's snares thou art surrounded . Bird - like I plunge amid life's sea , But , like the fowler , love ...
... heart ! my love - struck heart ! Thou , too , like the poor bird art wounded . Within thee rankles love's keen dart , And with love's snares thou art surrounded . Bird - like I plunge amid life's sea , But , like the fowler , love ...
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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.