Memoirs, Journal, and Correspondence of Thomas Moore: Diary. Letters. Postscript. Index

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Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1856

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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 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 ? • From the heretic girl of my soul should I fly, To seek somewhere else a more orthodox kiss ? No, perish the hearts, and the laws that try Truth, valour, or love, by a standard like this ! SUBLIME WAS THE WARNING.
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 112 - 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 61 - I regret very much to find that she is becoming so ' furieitsement litteraire :' one used hardly to get a peep at her blue stockings, but now I am afraid she shows them up to the knee : however, I shall decide for myself when I see her, as certainly this city, among the other features of a country town which it has acquired, has not forgotten that unfailing characteristic, scandal.
Страница 132 - 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 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 111 - 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, and that, though in his society one walks upon roses, it is with constant apprehension of the thorns that are among them.
Страница 188 - 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.

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