Recollections of Curran, and Some of His ContemporariesW. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1822 - 403 Seiten |
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... answer it to my conscience or my country if I deprived the university of such a tutor ! " - " Never , " said Magee , repeating the anecdote , " never did poli- D tician look deceit so admirably . " The three bar- SOME OF HIS ...
... answer it to my conscience or my country if I deprived the university of such a tutor ! " - " Never , " said Magee , repeating the anecdote , " never did poli- D tician look deceit so admirably . " The three bar- SOME OF HIS ...
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... answer . " Come , come , friend - has he not lost his teeth ? " - " Do you think , " retort- ed the fellow , " that I know his age as he does his horse's , by the mark of mouth ? " The laugh was against Curran , but he instantly ...
... answer . " Come , come , friend - has he not lost his teeth ? " - " Do you think , " retort- ed the fellow , " that I know his age as he does his horse's , by the mark of mouth ? " The laugh was against Curran , but he instantly ...
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... answer yon little gentleman , he's putting me in such a doldrum . " — " A doldrum ! Mr. Curran , what does he mean by a doldrum ? " exclaimed Lord Avonmore . " O ! my Lord , it's a very common complaint with per- sons of this ...
... answer yon little gentleman , he's putting me in such a doldrum . " — " A doldrum ! Mr. Curran , what does he mean by a doldrum ? " exclaimed Lord Avonmore . " O ! my Lord , it's a very common complaint with per- sons of this ...
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... least , Sir , " answered the offended scholar , " provided in your opinion it is better English . " Another member of the Monks of the Screw , of 78 RECOLLECTIONS OF CURRAN AND court rose, the tipstaff informed him he was want- ...
... least , Sir , " answered the offended scholar , " provided in your opinion it is better English . " Another member of the Monks of the Screw , of 78 RECOLLECTIONS OF CURRAN AND court rose, the tipstaff informed him he was want- ...
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... answered Curran good - humouredly , who was a mere pigmy in the comparison . In an election for the borough of Tallagh , Egan was an unsuccessful candidate - he , however , ap- pealed from the decision , and the appeal came of course ...
... answered Curran good - humouredly , who was a mere pigmy in the comparison . In an election for the borough of Tallagh , Egan was an unsuccessful candidate - he , however , ap- pealed from the decision , and the appeal came of course ...
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Seite 178 - guage his doom may have been pronounced; no matter what complexion incompatible with freedom, an Indian or an African sun may have burnt 'upon him ; no matter in what disastrous battle his liberty may have been cloven down ; no matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted upon the altar of slavery; the first moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain, the altar and the God sink together in the dust...
Seite 249 - OH! BREATHE NOT HIS NAME. OH ! breathe not his name, let it sleep in the shade, Where cold and unhonour'd his relics are laid : Sad, silent, and dark, be the tears that we shed, As the night-dew that falls on the grass o'er his head. But the night-dew that falls, though in silence it weeps, Shall brighten with verdure the grave where he sleeps ; And the tear that we shed, though in secret it...
Seite 130 - Consider the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither do they spin: yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Seite 183 - Scotland — a nation cast in the happy medium between the spiritless acquiescence of submissive poverty, and the sturdy credulity of pampered wealth — cool and ardent — adventurous and persevering — winging her eagle flight against the blaze of every science, with an eye that never winks, and a wing that never tires...
Seite 213 - For they that led us away captive, required of us then a song, and melody in our heaviness : Sing us one of the songs of Sion. 4 How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strange land?
Seite 206 - I had almost said, of ordinary habitation ; you may see him flying by the conflagrations of his own dwelling; or you may find his bones bleaching on the green fields of his country ; or he may be found tossing upon the surface of the ocean, and mingling his groans with those tempests less savage than his persecutors that drift him to a returnless distance from his family and his home.
Seite 209 - Have you not marked how the human heart bowed to the supremacy of his power, in the undissembled homage of deferential horror ? How his glance, like the lightning of heaven, seemed to rive the body of the accused, and mark it for the grave, while his voice warned the devoted wretch of woe and...
Seite 48 - We spent them not in toys, or lust, or wine, But search of deep philosophy, Wit, eloquence, and poesy ; Arts which I loved ; for they, my friend, were thine.
Seite 374 - Gentlemen, what horrid alternative in the treatment of wives would such reasoning recommend ? Are they to be immured by worse than eastern barbarity? Are their principles to be depraved, their passions sublimated, every finer motive of action extinguished by the inevitable consequences of thus treating them like slaves ? Or is a liberal and generous confidence in them to be the passport of the adulterer, and the justification of his crimes ? Honourably, but fatally for his own repose, he was neither...
Seite 181 - ... to carry into effect those fatal conspiracies of the few against the many, when the devoted benches of public justice were filled by some of those foundlings of fortune, who, overwhelmed in the torrent of corruption at an early period, lay at the bottom like drowned bodies, while soundness or sanity remained in them ; but at length becoming buoyant by putrefaction, they rose as they rotted, and floated to the surface of the polluted stream, where they were drifted along, the objects of terror,...