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... charms about her flings . Gentle are her starry eyes , Rich and soft her dark brown hair ; Olden Greece had no such prize , Venus was not half so fair . Every soft attractive spell Finds within her heart a goal ; Loveliness and goodness ...
... charms about her flings . Gentle are her starry eyes , Rich and soft her dark brown hair ; Olden Greece had no such prize , Venus was not half so fair . Every soft attractive spell Finds within her heart a goal ; Loveliness and goodness ...
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... charm of many a Corcagian fireside , whin their haro shall have long mouldhered into the dust o ' the valley , I have seen many preeshts and laymen in my time , from Father Wyllym O'Sullivan of " The Cork Reporter " Office , down to ...
... charm of many a Corcagian fireside , whin their haro shall have long mouldhered into the dust o ' the valley , I have seen many preeshts and laymen in my time , from Father Wyllym O'Sullivan of " The Cork Reporter " Office , down to ...
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... charms on earth long pass'd and gone , In the poet's lay live on . " This is scandalous ! The poets owe every thing to the women - inspiration , taste , fame ! and yet this rhymer must needs demand extraordinary gratitude from the ...
... charms on earth long pass'd and gone , In the poet's lay live on . " This is scandalous ! The poets owe every thing to the women - inspiration , taste , fame ! and yet this rhymer must needs demand extraordinary gratitude from the ...
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... charm at every new perusal : " Decies repetita placebunt . " His learning was extensive , and had been drawn from the purest wells of literature . His volume was the heart , and he had fully mastered its every emotion . His delineation ...
... charm at every new perusal : " Decies repetita placebunt . " His learning was extensive , and had been drawn from the purest wells of literature . His volume was the heart , and he had fully mastered its every emotion . His delineation ...
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... pedant's gown , and kneels before his mistress with his pen in one hand and his tablets in the other . He is more engaged in weighing longs and shorts than in contemplrting the charms of the lady ; and where 154 BRALLAGHAN .
... pedant's gown , and kneels before his mistress with his pen in one hand and his tablets in the other . He is more engaged in weighing longs and shorts than in contemplrting the charms of the lady ; and where 154 BRALLAGHAN .
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Achilles Tatius afther aiquil Anacreon Ballinamona oro Barney beauty bliss BOYLE Brallaghan breast Brian O'Linn bright bright eyes bright-ey'd wine Castle Hyde charms Colla bella coorse Cork Croker Cupid darlint dear Deipnosophist Club delight divine Doctor Dreams drink enuff eyes fair Father Prout flowers Freeholder Grake hath heart Heaven Hood Irish potheen Judy kiss ladies larned laughing lips LITTLE'S POEMS look Lord Maginn MARY GENTLE MILLIKIN Misther MOORE MOORE'S MELODIES never night nose nymph o'er once ould Philostratus Plagiarism poet poor preesht Prout punch Quæ rose rosy round SABERTASH shine sing SIR JOHN SUCKLING smile song soul spirit stars sweet tell thee thine thou thought thrue Tom Hood Tom Moore Venus whin whiskey WILLIAM MAGINN young γαρ δε εν εστι και μεν μοι Ου τε Ω Λινν
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Page 298 - Like the vase, in which roses have once been distilled — You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will. But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
Page 209 - Take, oh take those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn; And those eyes, the break of day, Lights that do mislead the morn; But my kisses bring again, bring again, Seals of love, but seal'd in vain.
Page 298 - A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty, Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
Page 302 - DUKE'S PALACE. [Enter DUKE, CURIO, LORDS; MUSICIANS attending.] DUKE. If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die.— That strain again;— it had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.— Enough; no more; 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
Page 306 - If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all.
Page 314 - WHEN Time, who steals our years away, Shall steal our pleasures too, The memory of the past will stay, And half our joys renew.
Page 327 - No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace, As I have seen in one autumnal face.
Page 331 - Thus sung they in the English boat, A holy and a cheerful Note, And all the way, to guide their Chime, With falling Oars they kept the time.
Page 309 - Although men are accused for not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps as few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold, which the owner knows not of.
Page 133 - No, the heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close ; As the sun-flower turns on her god, when he sets, The same look which she turned when he rose.