The Reliques of Father Prout: Late P. P. of Watergrasshill, in the County of Cork, Ireland |
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... ballad ; yet it struck me as a neat illus- tration of the ancient parallel between the flow of human life and the course of the running waters ; and thus it began : " Salut ! O vieux fleuve , qui coulez par la plaine ! Hélas ! un même ...
... ballad ; yet it struck me as a neat illus- tration of the ancient parallel between the flow of human life and the course of the running waters ; and thus it began : " Salut ! O vieux fleuve , qui coulez par la plaine ! Hélas ! un même ...
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... ballads and retail their Epicurean gossip unmolested , trod alone the craggy steeps of venturous discovery in the regions of Ori- ental learning ; whence , returning to the isle of the west , the " IRan of the fire - worshipper , " he ...
... ballads and retail their Epicurean gossip unmolested , trod alone the craggy steeps of venturous discovery in the regions of Ori- ental learning ; whence , returning to the isle of the west , the " IRan of the fire - worshipper , " he ...
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... ballad- monger comes off second best , I can't help him . I warned O'B . against confiding his secret to the man of melody , or else he would surely repent of his simplicity , and to his cost find himself some day the dupe of his ...
... ballad- monger comes off second best , I can't help him . I warned O'B . against confiding his secret to the man of melody , or else he would surely repent of his simplicity , and to his cost find himself some day the dupe of his ...
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... ballads of his country , he came regularly every summer , and did me the honour to share my humble roof repeatedly . He knows well how often he plagued me to supply him with original songs which I had picked up in France among the merry ...
... ballads of his country , he came regularly every summer , and did me the honour to share my humble roof repeatedly . He knows well how often he plagued me to supply him with original songs which I had picked up in France among the merry ...
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... ballads , and containing a kindly admixture of gentleness and sentimental delicacy , which no one but a " ladye " and a lovely heart could infuse into the composition . Moore has not been infelicitous in ren- dering the charms of the ...
... ballads , and containing a kindly admixture of gentleness and sentimental delicacy , which no one but a " ladye " and a lovely heart could infuse into the composition . Moore has not been infelicitous in ren- dering the charms of the ...
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Page 159 - With deep affection And recollection I often think of Those Shandon bells, Whose sounds so wild would In the days of childhood Fling round my cradle Their magic spells. On this I ponder Where'er I wander, And thus grow fonder Sweet Cork, of thee; With thy bells of Shandon, That sound so grand on The pleasant waters Of the river Lee.
Page 135 - Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds : Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign.
Page 34 - Wit, and Poetry, and Pope. Friend to my Life ! (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song...
Page 372 - Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field ; that, of course, they are many in number ; or that, after all, they are other than the little, shrivelled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.
Page 123 - He gave the little wealth he had, To build a house for fools and mad: And showed by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much: That kingdom he hath left his debtor, I wish it soon may have a better.
Page 551 - They were gigantic minds, and their steep aim Was, Titan-like, on daring doubts to pile Thoughts which should call down thunder, and the flame Of Heaven, again assail'd, if Heaven the while On man and man's research could deign do more than smile.
Page 60 - There is a stone there That whoever kisses, Oh ! he never misses To grow eloquent. 'Tis he may clamber To a lady's chamber, Or become a member Of Parliament: A clever spouter He'll sure to turn out, or An out-and-outer, "To be let alone.
Page 23 - No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils.
Page 23 - ... esteem and admiration. And pray, sir, what in the world is equal to it? Pass by the other parts, and look at the manner in which the people of New England have of late carried on the whale fishery.
Page 317 - I cannot name this gentleman without remarking that his labours and writings have done much to open the eyes and hearts of mankind. He has visited all Europe — not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces or the stateliness of temples, not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the...