Memoirs, Journal, and Correspondence of Thomas Moore: DiaryLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1853 |
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Página 52 - Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn; The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go, To make a third she joined the former two.
Página 184 - Of martyr ; yet she thinks it shame Life should so long play with that breath Which spent can buy so brave a death. She never undertook to know What Death with Love should have to do ; Nor has she e'er yet understood Why to show love, she should shed blood, Yet though she cannot tell you why, She can love, and she can die.
Página 285 - Lord Holland said it was not so; it was not from his birth that Lord Byron had taken the station he held in society, for till his talents became known, he was, in spite of his birth, in any thing but good society, and but for his talents would never, perhaps, have been in any better. In talking of the feeling he had towards the men he lived with, Lord H. said 'yo« were the only literary person he formed an intimacy with who was "hail fellow, well met" with him; the others he was rather inclined...
Página 12 - For quick repartee in conversation, there are few things better. — JR MOORE AND SCOTT AT THE THEATRE. I2g , JAMES HOGG. November 8, 1825. — I went to sup at Wilson's. An odd set collected there ; among others, the poet Hogg. We had also Williams, the rector of the Academy, the person to whom Lockhart addressed
Página 24 - Wellesley spoke of the difficulty there was in the way, from the feelings the king most naturally entertained towards me, and from himself being the personal friend of the king; but that, on further consideration, he saw he could do it without any reference to the other side of the Channel, and out of the pension- fund placed at his disposal as Lord- Lieutenant.
Página 21 - Assured me that I need not agitate myself as I did, for that my father was closing his eyes on the world without any suffering, and that my mother had already brought her mind to as much composure as could possibly be expected. Undertook to go and consult my sister Ellen, as to whether it would be too much for my mother to see me to-night; returned to say that I must come to her by all means, as she was expecting me, and it would be (Ellen thought) of the greatest service to her. Was glad to find...
Página 22 - The apothecary, who was standing by, said with a smile, " Oh, sir, some good matt will." " Not an apothecary, though," answered my father, which looked as if the playfulness, for which he was always so remarkable, had not even then deserted him. Our conversation naturally turned upon religion, and my sister Kate, who, the last time I saw her, was more than half inclined to declare herself a Protestant, told me she had since taken my advice and remained quietly a Catholic. • • * For myself, my...
Página 297 - Ei lends, and mentioned herself as having lost twenty-six friends in the course of the last six years. It is something to have had so many. Among other reasons for her regret at leaving the stage was, that she always found in it a vent for her private sorrows, which enabled her to bear them better ; and often she has got credit for the truth and feeling of her acting when she was doing nothing more than relieving her own heart of its grief.
Página 237 - ... to the company, so that the person who sits next to him has generally the advantage of his wit before any of the rest of the party. The other day, having a number of the foreign ministers and their wives to dine with him, he was debating with himself whether he ought not to follow the continental fashion of leaving the room with the ladies after dinner. Having settled the matter he muttered forth in his usual soliloquizing tone, " I think we must go out all together.
Página 75 - Sir, your observation has caught fire." Then imagined a parson breaking into a blaze in the pulpit ; the engines called to put him out ; no water to be had, the man at the waterworks being an Unitarian or an Atheist. Said of some one, " He has no command over his understanding; it is always getting between his legs and tripping him up.