 | Edward Barron - 1820 - 642 pages
...any to defend. It reminded him of the following epigram, said to have been written by Dr. Swift :— Behold a proof of Irish sense, Here Irish wit is seen ; When nothing's left that's worth defence, They build a magazine. If she accepted these terms, she was to have had a bribe of 50,0001. ; but when... | |
 | English essays - 1822 - 494 pages
...city. " O," said the dean, " let me take an item of this." He then wrote the following lines — " Behold a proof of Irish sense ; Here Irish wit is...pocket-book, laughing heartily at the conceit, and finishing it with these words — " After the steed is stolen, shut the stable door." This was the... | |
 | William Oxberry - 1822 - 430 pages
...produced the following lines, being the last he ever wrote : < ; , "Behold! a proof of Irish sense! „_ . Here Irish wit is seen, When nothing's left, that's...pocket-book, laughing heartily at the conceit, and clinching it with, " When the steed's stolen, shut the stable-door;" after which, he never said a sensible... | |
 | 1824 - 486 pages
...Irish wit ta 1een ; When nothing's left that's worth defence, We build a magazine." nml then put up bis pocket-book, laughing heartily at the conceit, and...clenching it with, " When the steed's stolen, shut the stable door." flYPER-CRITICISM. When Colman read his admirable opera of Inkle and Yarico to the late... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1868 - 766 pages
...composed, in an interval of his idiocy, upon the erection of a magazine for arms and stores near Dublin. " Behold a proof of Irish sense, — Here Irish wit...is seen : When nothing's left that's worth defence, They build a magazine." And he calls himself in his epitaph, strenuum pro virili libertatis vindicem.... | |
 | Henry Kett - English wit and humor - 1825 - 298 pages
...O.'said the dean, ' let me take an item of IB -' he then wrote the following lines : ' Behold a proof nf Irish sense, Here Irish wit is seen ; When nothing's left that's worth cle ence, We build a magazine !' And then he put up his pocket-book, laughing IK lily at the conceit,... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1826 - 372 pages
...says, my tablets—memory, put down that." He then produced the following lines, being the last he ever wrote : Behold ! a proof of Irish sense ! Here Irish wit is seen, When nothing's left for our defence, We build a magazine. The Dean then put up his pocnet-book, laughing heartily at the... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - English poetry - 1833 - 386 pages
...tablets ; memory, put down that ;" which produced the following Epigram, said to be the last verses he ever wrote : Behold, a proof of Irish sense, Here...nothing's left that's worth defence, We build a Magazine. See also a very curious exhortation addressed to the subdean and chapter of St. Patrick's, by Swift,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1833 - 378 pages
...use reserved than show: These are what the Dean do please ; All superfluous are but these. EPIGRAM. BEHOLD ! a proof of Irish sense ; Here Irish wit is seen ! When nothing's left that's worth defence, EPITAPH, INSCRIBED ON A MARBLE TABLET, IN BERKELEY CHURCH, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. HSE CABOLUS Comes de BERKELEY,... | |
 | John D'Alton - Dublin (Ireland : County) - 1838 - 962 pages
...powder, for the defence of the city* Oh, said the Dean, let me note that, when drawing out his tablets he wrote — " Behold a proof of Irish sense, Here Irish...nothing's left that's worth defence, We build a magazine." The fifteen acres (as an open level plain beyond this, and opposite the Viceregal Lodge, is termed,)... | |
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Behold a proof of Irish sense : Here Irish wit is seen ; When nothing's left that's worth defence, They build a magazine ! * Besides these famous books of Scott's and Johnson's, there is a copious " Life 
