Curran and His ContemporariesW. Blackwood, 1850 - 496 páginas |
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... authority , and so far , claiming to be authentic . Mr Curran was born at Newmarket , a small village in the county of Cork , on the 24th of July 1750. His father , James Curran , seneschal of the manor , was possessed , besides the ...
... authority , and so far , claiming to be authentic . Mr Curran was born at Newmarket , a small village in the county of Cork , on the 24th of July 1750. His father , James Curran , seneschal of the manor , was possessed , besides the ...
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... authority of a friend who knew him well , that he had some small stipend from the school at Middleton ; and that , in addition to this , he profited by his literary exertions . To the magazines and the newspapers of the day , no doubt ...
... authority of a friend who knew him well , that he had some small stipend from the school at Middleton ; and that , in addition to this , he profited by his literary exertions . To the magazines and the newspapers of the day , no doubt ...
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... authority is sure to find an audience . " Lord Clonmel too fatally verified the apothegm . Wherever he went , he was lampooned by a ballad - singer or laughed at by the populace . Nor was Magee's arsenal composed exclusively of paper ...
... authority is sure to find an audience . " Lord Clonmel too fatally verified the apothegm . Wherever he went , he was lampooned by a ballad - singer or laughed at by the populace . Nor was Magee's arsenal composed exclusively of paper ...
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... authority . Mr Plunket , who , in the English senate , has added another leaf to the laurels of the Irish bar , had appealed once from one of the College elections , and the examination of Lord Avonmore became indispensable . It was ...
... authority . Mr Plunket , who , in the English senate , has added another leaf to the laurels of the Irish bar , had appealed once from one of the College elections , and the examination of Lord Avonmore became indispensable . It was ...
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... authority , we cannot forget Mr Burke . Mr Burke , the prodigy of nature and of acquisition . He read everything - he saw everything . His knowledge of history amounted to a power of foretelling ; and when he perceived the wild work ...
... authority , we cannot forget Mr Burke . Mr Burke , the prodigy of nature and of acquisition . He read everything - he saw everything . His knowledge of history amounted to a power of foretelling ; and when he perceived the wild work ...
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Página 78 - There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind, Which I respect not.
Página 310 - She is far from the land where her young hero sleeps, And lovers around her are sighing; But coldly she turns from their gaze, and weeps, For her heart in his grave is lying.
Página 310 - He had lived for his love, for his country he died, They were all that to life had entwined him ; Nor soon shall the tears of his country be dried, Nor long will his love stay behind him. Oh ! make her a grave where the sunbeams rest When they promise a glorious morrow ; They'll shine o'er her sleep, like a smile from the West, From her own loved island of sorrow.
Página 304 - OH! BREATHE NOT HIS NAME. OH ! breathe not his name, let it sleep in the shade, Where cold and unhonour'd his relics are laid ; Sad, silent, and dark, be the tears that we shed, As the night-dew that falls on the grass o'er his head. But the night-dew that falls, though in silence it weeps, Shall brighten with verdure the grave where he sleeps ; And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls, Shall long keep his memory green in our souls.
Página 310 - SHE is far from the land where her young hero sleeps, And lovers are round her sighing ; But coldly she turns from their gaze, and weeps, For her heart in his grave is lying.
Página 298 - You, my lord, are a judge ; I am the supposed culprit: I am a man, you are a man also; by a revolution of power we might change places, though we never could change characters. If I stand at the bar of this court and dare not vindicate my character, what a farce is your justice?
Página 301 - I have but one request to ask at my departure from this world - it is the charity of its silence ! Let no man write my epitaph: for as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them.
Página 299 - By you, too, who, if it were possible to collect all the innocent blood that you have shed in your unhallowed ministry, in one great reservoir, your lordship might swim in...
Página 173 - ... no matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted upon the altar of slavery ; the first moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain, the altar and the god sink together in the dust ; his soul walks abroad in her own majesty ; his body swells beyond the measure of his chains that burst from around him, and he stands redeemed, regenerated, and disenthralled, by the irresistible Genius of UNIVERSAL EMANCIPATION ! [Here Mr.
Página 297 - I have always understood it to be the duty of a judge, when a prisoner has been convicted, to pronounce the sentence of the law. I have also understood that judges sometimes think it their duty to hear with patience and to speak with humanity...