The Fraserian Papers of the Late William Maginn, LL. D.: Annotated, with a Life of the AuthorRedfield, 1857 - 358 pages |
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... Lord Howth's eldest daughter , Isabella , was married in 1773 to Lord Sidney , who died in 1744 without issue , which last circumstance I do not much wonder at , as he did not think proper to marry until twenty - nine years after his ...
... Lord Howth's eldest daughter , Isabella , was married in 1773 to Lord Sidney , who died in 1744 without issue , which last circumstance I do not much wonder at , as he did not think proper to marry until twenty - nine years after his ...
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... Lord Clarina ) , in 1798 , besides other children , and died a Lieutenant - General in 1810 , aged of course fourteen years . This is rapid promotion , and beats the old story of the captain crying for his pap . Besides , he thinks fit ...
... Lord Clarina ) , in 1798 , besides other children , and died a Lieutenant - General in 1810 , aged of course fourteen years . This is rapid promotion , and beats the old story of the captain crying for his pap . Besides , he thinks fit ...
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... Lord Byron's autobiographic manuscripts , that Moore should not write the Life of the noble Childe , it was Maginn that Murray se- lected for that purpose . Mr. Kenealy , the friend and biographer of Maginn , says , " Nothing can more ...
... Lord Byron's autobiographic manuscripts , that Moore should not write the Life of the noble Childe , it was Maginn that Murray se- lected for that purpose . Mr. Kenealy , the friend and biographer of Maginn , says , " Nothing can more ...
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... Lord Byron . Had he executed this task , the result would have been very differ- ent from Moore's Apology for the Life of Byron . I doubt whether Ma- ginn had ever read the Autobiography bestowed by Byron on Moore ; sold by Moore to ...
... Lord Byron . Had he executed this task , the result would have been very differ- ent from Moore's Apology for the Life of Byron . I doubt whether Ma- ginn had ever read the Autobiography bestowed by Byron on Moore ; sold by Moore to ...
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... Lord Byron's journals ( afterward incorporated in the biography , by Moore ) , but even these , called " The Byron Papers , " did not draw . So , after a vexatious ex- periment , kept up for some weeks in a " hoping against hope ...
... Lord Byron's journals ( afterward incorporated in the biography , by Moore ) , but even these , called " The Byron Papers , " did not draw . So , after a vexatious ex- periment , kept up for some weeks in a " hoping against hope ...
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Page 244 - That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them : There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke ; When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook.
Page 17 - He hath a tear for pity, and a hand Open as day for melting charity...
Page 78 - Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining...
Page 38 - Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill ; A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.
Page 47 - Hereditary bondsmen ! know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?
Page 133 - No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace, As I have seen in one autumnal face.
Page 120 - See dying vegetables life sustain, See life dissolving vegetate again: All forms that perish other forms supply; (By turns we catch the vital breath, and die) Like bubbles on the sea of Matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.
Page 17 - Time but th' impression deeper makes, As streams their channels deeper wear. My Mary, dear departed shade ! Where is thy place of blissful rest? Seest thou thy lover lowly laid ? Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast?
Page 302 - I blow with a trumpet, I and all that are with me, then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.
Page lvii - But should there be to whom the fatal blight Of failing Wisdom yields a base delight, Men who exult when minds of heavenly tone Jar in the music which was born their own, Still let them pause — ah ! little do they know That what to them seem'd Vice might be but Woe.