Brallaghan: Or The DeipnosophistsE. Churton, 1845 - 336 pages |
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... eyes , Rich and soft her dark brown hair ; Olden Greece had no such prize , Venus was not half so fair . Every soft ... bright ! Dare I love thy looks of light ? CONTENTS . BARNEY BRALLAGHAN'S LETTER TO OLIVER YORKE . 1.
... eyes , Rich and soft her dark brown hair ; Olden Greece had no such prize , Venus was not half so fair . Every soft ... bright ! Dare I love thy looks of light ? CONTENTS . BARNEY BRALLAGHAN'S LETTER TO OLIVER YORKE . 1.
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... eyes : — 66 " O blandos oculos et inquietos , Et quâdam propriâ notâ loquaces , Illic et Venus et leves amores Atque ... Bright eyes and beauty is my only care . DR . WATTS . All this is changed now , and though I sumtimes LETTER TO ...
... eyes : — 66 " O blandos oculos et inquietos , Et quâdam propriâ notâ loquaces , Illic et Venus et leves amores Atque ... Bright eyes and beauty is my only care . DR . WATTS . All this is changed now , and though I sumtimes LETTER TO ...
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... eyes On the poet shower their witcheries , Can never find credit with me . These bards pretend that the Muses shun The presence of Cypria's bright ey'd son , And fly from his company ; But never shall story as this untrue Impose on such ...
... eyes On the poet shower their witcheries , Can never find credit with me . These bards pretend that the Muses shun The presence of Cypria's bright ey'd son , And fly from his company ; But never shall story as this untrue Impose on such ...
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... bright as bright eyes , and as sweet as a bean , The devil a cordial can vie with potheen . As luscious as honey , as rich as sardine , As priceless as Eden is Irish potheen . With perfume delightful and hue crystalline , Is our Irish ...
... bright as bright eyes , and as sweet as a bean , The devil a cordial can vie with potheen . As luscious as honey , as rich as sardine , As priceless as Eden is Irish potheen . With perfume delightful and hue crystalline , Is our Irish ...
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... eyes is like the splendour of the violet , and her clustering ringlets are more closely entwined than the branches ... bright thoughts . So brothers , -so , here I commence : I sing in the manner of older and more poetical times than we ...
... eyes is like the splendour of the violet , and her clustering ringlets are more closely entwined than the branches ... bright thoughts . So brothers , -so , here I commence : I sing in the manner of older and more poetical times than we ...
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Achilles Tatius afther aiquil Anacreon Ballinamona oro Barney beauty bliss BOYLE Brallaghan breast Brian O'Linn bright bright eyes bright-ey'd wine Castle Hyde charms Colla bella coorse Cork Croker Cupid darlint dear Deipnosophist Club delight divine Doctor Dreams drink enuff eyes fair Father Mahony flowers Freeholder Grake hath heart Heaven Hood Irish potheen Judy kiss ladies larned light lips LITTLE'S POEMS look Lord Maginn MARY GENTLE MILLIKIN Misther MOORE MOORE'S MELODIES never night nose nymph o'er once ould Philostratus Plagiarism poet poor preesht punch Quæ rose rosy round SABERTASH Sam Rogers shine sing SIR JOHN SUCKLING smile song soul sparkles spirit stars sweet tell thee thine thou thought thrue Tom Hood Tom Moore Venus whin whiskey WILLIAM MAGINN young γαρ δε εν εστι και μεν Ου τε Ω Λινν
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Page 296 - Like the vase, in which roses have once been distilled — You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will. But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
Page 207 - Take, oh take those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn; And those eyes, the break of day, Lights that do mislead the morn; But my kisses bring again, bring again, Seals of love, but seal'd in vain.
Page 296 - A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty, Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
Page 304 - If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all.
Page 325 - No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace, As I have seen in one autumnal face.
Page 306 - ... thought that pale decay Would steal before the steps of time, And waste its bloom away, Mary...
Page 329 - Thus sung they in the English boat, A holy and a cheerful Note, And all the way, to guide their Chime, With falling Oars they kept the time.
Page 24 - A man so various that he seems to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome.
Page 131 - No, the heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close ; As the sun-flower turns on her god, when he sets, The same look which she turned when he rose.
Page 327 - I KNEW, by the smoke that so gracefully curled Above the green elms, that a cottage was near, And I said, " If there's peace to be found in the world, A heart that was humble might hope for it here...