Ireland and Its Rulers; Since 1829, Parte1

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T. C. Newby, 1843
 

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Página 14 - And thou, sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid, Still first to fly where sensual joys invade; Unfit, in these degenerate times of shame, To catch the heart or strike for honest fame...
Página 143 - When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Página 226 - All this! ay, more: fret till your proud heart break; Go show your slaves how choleric you are, And make your bondmen tremble. Must I budge? Must I observe you! Must I stand and crouch Under your testy humour! By the gods, You shall digest the venom of your spleen, Though it do split you; for from this day forth I'll use you for my mirth, yea, for my laughter, When you are waspish.
Página 311 - God must be wrought by one ./Esculapius alone, and that in my weak judgment to be effected rather by corrosives than lenitives : less than Thorough will not overcome it ; there is a cancerous malignity in it, which must be cut forth, which long since rejected all other means, and therefore to God and him I leave it*.
Página 146 - And round the ring, — each honour'd, as they go, With equal pressure from his gracious toe, — To the old medley tune, half " Patrick's Day" And half
Página 24 - ... frowned — muttered fearfully to himself — sat down in a rage, with a horrid scowl on his face; bounced up again, in a fit of boiling passion, and solemnly protested in the face of heaven against such injustice — threw his brief away — swaggered out of the Court House — then swaggered back again, and wound up by browbeating and abusing half-a-dozen more witnesses, and without any real grounds whatever, finally succeeded in making half the jury refuse to bring in a verdict of "Guilty".
Página 13 - Grant declares his own inability to make any essential distinction between the ritual of the Church of Rome and that of the Church of England.
Página 285 - No more of this dull stuff. Tis time enough To whine and mortify thyself with penance, When the decaying sense is...
Página 280 - To the higher classes, he was exceedingly respectful, and was always considered by them as one of their order — to the poor he was so gentle in his bearing, and so patient of their little requests and petitions — so earnest in pleading their cause, and what was better than kind words or noble speeches, so practically useful and humane, that they also (the more Christian compliment) regarded him as one of themselves.
Página 298 - Hypocrisy, of course, delights in the most sublime speculations; for, never intending to go beyond speculation, it costs nothing to have it magnificent.

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