Memoirs, Journal, and Correspondence of Thomas Moore: Diary. Letters. Postscript. IndexLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1856 |
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... happy application of humorous stories , and constant and congenial ease were all want- ing . The brilliant hues of his varied conversation had failed , and the strong powers of his intellect had mani- festly sunk . There was something ...
... happy application of humorous stories , and constant and congenial ease were all want- ing . The brilliant hues of his varied conversation had failed , and the strong powers of his intellect had mani- festly sunk . There was something ...
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... happy and comfortable -often , indeed , to her own inconvenience and expense . She was herself of so youthful and cheerful a disposition , that it made her happy to see all around her so ; and she and Tom loved each other most cordially ...
... happy and comfortable -often , indeed , to her own inconvenience and expense . She was herself of so youthful and cheerful a disposition , that it made her happy to see all around her so ; and she and Tom loved each other most cordially ...
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... happy to have it in our power to give the most un- qualified contradiction to all such statements . Thomas Moore is in excellent health . We have been favoured with the following extract of a letter , received in Dublin yesterday , from ...
... happy to have it in our power to give the most un- qualified contradiction to all such statements . Thomas Moore is in excellent health . We have been favoured with the following extract of a letter , received in Dublin yesterday , from ...
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... happy by presenting him to the poet . * Of the comparison kindly but rashly ventured in this Poem , all I shall say is , that to compare me with General Washington is like placing a mere pigmy beside a giant . I very readily agreed to ...
... happy by presenting him to the poet . * Of the comparison kindly but rashly ventured in this Poem , all I shall say is , that to compare me with General Washington is like placing a mere pigmy beside a giant . I very readily agreed to ...
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... happy and in health . My last letter I suppose surprised , and , I hope , disappointed you ; but you must always allow for the fluctuating oddity of my mind , which can never account for those melan- choly little whims which it falls ...
... happy and in health . My last letter I suppose surprised , and , I hope , disappointed you ; but you must always allow for the fluctuating oddity of my mind , which can never account for those melan- choly little whims which it falls ...
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66 My dear 66 Sloperton admired afraid answer anxious assure beautiful believe Bessy best regards cottage Davies Street dear Corry dear Moore dear Rogers dear Sir dearest delightful Devizes dine dinner Dublin Duke Edinburgh Edinburgh Review epistle fear feel fellow flatter give happy hear heard heart honour hope Ireland Irish James Corry Kegworth Kilkenny kind Lady Donegal Lalla LEIGH HUNT letter lines London Longman look Lord Byron Lord Lansdowne Lord Moira Lurgan mind Miss Godfrey Mother never night obliged opinion perhaps pleasure poem poet poor Pray pretty received remember Richard Power Samuel Rogers seen Sheridan sincerely sister sorry suppose sure talents tell thanks thing Thomas Longman THOMAS MOORE thought tion told town truly Tunbridge verses week wish write written wrote yesterday
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Страница 30 - For he was of that stubborn crew Of errant saints, whom all men grant To be the true church militant ; Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun ; Decide all controversies by Infallible artillery ; And prove their doctrine orthodox By apostolic blows and knocks...
Страница 14 - The last of our five children is now gone, and we are left desolate and alone. Not a single relative have I now left in the world!
Страница 114 - I have already altered my whole plan to please him, and I will do so no more, for I should make as long a voyage of it as his own ' Columbus,' if I attended to all his objections.
Страница 6 - At length, angered by this rival performance, Kemble walked with solemn step to the front of the stage, and, addressing the audience in his most tragic tones, said, ' Ladies and gentlemen, unless the play is stopped, the child cannot possibly go on.
Страница 134 - I must dwindle into an humble follower — a Byronian. This is disheartening, and I sometimes doubt whether I shall publish it at all; though at the same time, if I may trust my own judgment, I think I never wrote so well before.
Страница 31 - Shall I ask the brave soldier, who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree? Shall I give up the friend I have valued and tried, If he kneel not before the same altar with me...
Страница 5 - Mr. Speaker, have we laws or have we not laws? If we have laws, to what purpose were those laws made unless they are obeyed ?" Opposition side : " Mr. Speaker, did that gentleman speak to the purpose or not to the purpose, and if he did not speak to the purpose, to what purpose did he speak?
Страница 192 - I would not change the miseries of love For all the world calls happiness." Medwin disdained to reply to Ella's apt quotation in plain prose, and forthwith responded, — " Know'st thou two hearts by love subdued — Ask them which fate they covet — whether Health, joy, and life in solitude, Or sickness, grief, and death together.
Страница 113 - Rogers and I had a very pleasant tour of it, though I felt throughout it all, as I always feel with him, that the fear of losing his good opinion almost embitters the possession of it...