Curran and His ContemporariesW. Blackwood and sons, 1851 - 595 páginas |
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... Parliament , and a good house in Ely Place , on my return one day from court I found an old gentleman seated alone in the drawing - room , his feet familiarly placed on each side of the Italian marble chimney - piece , and his whole air ...
... Parliament , and a good house in Ely Place , on my return one day from court I found an old gentleman seated alone in the drawing - room , his feet familiarly placed on each side of the Italian marble chimney - piece , and his whole air ...
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... sub- ject made a noise - was brought before Parliament — and was at last , at least politically , set at rest by the defeat of the chief justice , and the restriction of the judges in future 40 CURRAN AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES .
... sub- ject made a noise - was brought before Parliament — and was at last , at least politically , set at rest by the defeat of the chief justice , and the restriction of the judges in future 40 CURRAN AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES .
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... Parliament , and among the people , he was equally ad- mired and universally respected . " Burgh never for a mo- ment suffered his own personal interests to supersede his duty to the country . On two several occasions , where they ...
... Parliament , and among the people , he was equally ad- mired and universally respected . " Burgh never for a mo- ment suffered his own personal interests to supersede his duty to the country . On two several occasions , where they ...
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... parliamentary history of the country . 66 Called , as we have thus seen him , to the bar , he was with- out friends , without connections , without fortune , conscious of talents far above the mob by which he was elbowed , and cursed ...
... parliamentary history of the country . 66 Called , as we have thus seen him , to the bar , he was with- out friends , without connections , without fortune , conscious of talents far above the mob by which he was elbowed , and cursed ...
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... Parliament . This race of men , a genus in themselves distinct and peculiar , grew like an ex- crescence upon the system of the country : the Irish squire of half a century ago scorned not to be in debt ; it would be be- cana . neath ...
... Parliament . This race of men , a genus in themselves distinct and peculiar , grew like an ex- crescence upon the system of the country : the Irish squire of half a century ago scorned not to be in debt ; it would be be- cana . neath ...
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Página 12 - When I remember all The friends so linked together, I've seen around me fall Like leaves in wintry weather; I feel like one Who treads alone Some banquet-hall deserted, Whose lights are fled, Whose garlands dead, And all but he departed...
Página 282 - 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 280 - When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then, and not till then, let my epitaph be written.
Página 288 - 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 280 - I am going to my cold and silent grave ; my lamp of life is nearly extinguished ; my race is run ; the grave opens to receive me, and I sink into its bosom ! 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 165 - I speak in the spirit of the British law, which makes liberty commensurate with and inseparable from British soil; which proclaims even to the stranger and sojourner, the moment he sets his foot upon British earth, that the ground on which he treads is holy, and consecrated by the genius of universal emancipation.
Página 140 - The endeavour to approach it would have only removed him to a greater distance than he was before ; as a little hand that strives to grasp a mighty globe is thrown back by the re-action of its own effort to comprehend.
Página 160 - ... him off, and he appears no more; in the other case, how does the work of sedition go forward ? Night after night the muffled rebel steals forth in the dark, and casts another and another brand upon the pile, to which, when the hour of fatal maturity shall arrive, he will apply the flame.
Página 280 - Be yet patient ! I have but a few words more to say. I am going to my cold and silent grave : my lamp of life is nearly extinguished : my race is run : the grave opens to receive me, and I sink into its bosom...
Página 167 - ... family and the wishes of his country. But if, which Heaven forbid ! it hath still been unfortunately determined, that because he has not bent to power and authority, because he would not bow down before the golden calf and worship' it, he is to be bound and cast into the furnace, I do trust in God there is a redeeming spirit in the Constitution which will be seen to walk with the sufferer through the flames, and to preserve him unhurt by the conflagration.