Memoirs, Journal, and Correspondence of Thomas Moore: Diary

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Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1853 - Literary Criticism - 368 pages

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Page 241 - Watch and pray,' says the text, ' Go to sleep,
Page 49 - DINED at Mr. Monkhouse's (a gentleman I had never seen before), on Wordsworth's invitation, who lives there whenever he comes to town. A singular party: Coleridge, Rogers, Wordsworth and wife, Charles Lamb (the hero, at present, of the "London Magazine") and his sister (the poor woman who went mad with him in the diligence on the way to Paris), and a Mr.
Page 192 - As to the manuscript itself, having read the greater part, if not the whole, I should say that three or four pages of it were too gross and indelicate for publication ; that the rest, with few exceptions, contained little traces of Lord Byron's genius, and no interesting details of his life.
Page 265 - ... by odious and unworthy names. On the contrary, we highly revere the principles on which you act, though we lament some of their effects. Armed as you are, we embrace you as our friends, and as our brethren, by the best and dearest ties of relation.

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