The works of Thomas Moore, Volume 141832 |
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... sent to be cleaned , was discovered a secret aperture , concealing within it a number of old legal papers connected with the rights and privileges of the foundation . At the sale of the old lord's effects in 1776-7 , this eagle ...
... sent to be cleaned , was discovered a secret aperture , concealing within it a number of old legal papers connected with the rights and privileges of the foundation . At the sale of the old lord's effects in 1776-7 , this eagle ...
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... sent to prevail on his relative to surrender the castle , received for answer , that , « except he found his own heart prone to such treachery , he might consider there was , if nothing else , so much of a Biron's blood in him , that he ...
... sent to prevail on his relative to surrender the castle , received for answer , that , « except he found his own heart prone to such treachery , he might consider there was , if nothing else , so much of a Biron's blood in him , that he ...
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... sent as the boy was on this occasion to en- counter the trial of a visit , without the accustomed su- perintendence of his nurse , it is not so wonderful that he should have been found , under such circumstances , rather an unmanageable ...
... sent as the boy was on this occasion to en- counter the trial of a visit , without the accustomed su- perintendence of his nurse , it is not so wonderful that he should have been found , under such circumstances , rather an unmanageable ...
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... sent By her advances of money to Mr Byron ( says an authority I have already cited ) on the two occasions when he visited Aberdeen , as well as by the expenses incurred in furnishing the floor occupied by her , after his death , in ...
... sent By her advances of money to Mr Byron ( says an authority I have already cited ) on the two occasions when he visited Aberdeen , as well as by the expenses incurred in furnishing the floor occupied by her , after his death , in ...
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... sent him to it . Of the progress of his infantine studies at Aber- deen , as well under Mr Bowers as under the various other persons that instructed him , we have the follow- ing interesting particulars communicated by himself , in a ...
... sent him to it . Of the progress of his infantine studies at Aber- deen , as well under Mr Bowers as under the various other persons that instructed him , we have the follow- ing interesting particulars communicated by himself , in a ...
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Page 199 - By nature vile, ennobled but by name, Each kindred brute might bid thee blush for shame. Ye ! who perchance behold this simple urn, Pass on— it honours none you wish to mourn : To mark a friend's remains these stones arise ; I never knew but one, — and here he lies.
Page 432 - I have traversed the seat of war in the peninsula ; I have been in some of the most oppressed provinces of Turkey; but never, under the most despotic of infidel governments, did] I behold such squalid wretchedness as I have seen since my return, in the very heart of a Christian country.
Page 56 - When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good; myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things...
Page 71 - Our union would have healed feuds in which blood had been shed by our fathers, it would have joined lands broad and rich, it would have joined at least one heart, and two persons not ill matched in years (she is two years my elder), and — and — and — what has been the result?
Page 45 - Brighten'd, and for a moment seem'd to roam, He squeezed from out a rag some drops of rain Into his dying child's mouth- but in vain. The boy expired- the father held the clay, And...
Page 458 - He ordered me to be presented to him at a ball ; and after some sayings peculiarly pleasing from royal lips, as to my own attempts, he talked to me of you and your immortalities : he preferred you to every bard past and present, and asked which of your works pleased me most. It was a difficult question. I answered, I thought the Lay.
Page 19 - I strode through the pine-covered glade. I sought not my home till the day's dying glory Gave place to the rays of the bright polar star ; For fancy was cheer'd by traditional story, Disclosed by the natives of dark Loch ua Garr.
Page 21 - Revered Parnassus, and beheld the steep Jove's Ida and Olympus crown the deep: But 'twas not all long ages' lore, nor all Their nature held me in their thrilling thrall; The infant rapture still survived the boy, And...
Page 45 - There were two fathers in this ghastly crew, And with them their two sons, of whom the one Was more robust and hardy to the view, But he died early; and when he was gone, His nearest messmate told his sire, who threw' One glance on him, and said, " Heaven's will be done ! I can do nothing," and he saw him thrown Into the deep, without a tear or groan.
Page 55 - ... verses at will, and themes without it. * * * He was a friend of mine, and in the same remove, and used at times to beg me to let him do my exercise, — a request always most readily accorded upon a pinch, or when I wanted to do something else, which was usually once an hour. On the other hand, he was pacific, and I savage ; so I fought for him, or thrashed others for him, or thrashed himself to make him thrash others when it was necessary, as a point of honour and stature, that he should so...