Memoirs, Journal, and Correspondence of Thomas Moore: Diary. Letters. Postscript. IndexLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1856 |
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66 My dear admired afraid answer assure beautiful believe Bessy best regards cottage Davies Street dear Corry dear Moore dear Rogers dear Sir dearest delightful Devizes dine dinner Dublin Duke Edinburgh Edinburgh Review epistle fear feel fellow flatter give happy hear heard heart honour hope Ireland Irish James Corry Kegworth Kilkenny kind Lady Donegal Lalla LEIGH HUNT letter lines London Longman look Lord Byron Lord Lansdowne Lord Moira Lurgan Madame de Staël mind Miss Godfrey Mother never night obliged opinion perhaps pleasure poem poet poor Pray pretty received remember Richard Power Samuel Rogers seen sincerely sister Sloperton sorry suppose sure talents tell thanks thing Thomas Longman THOMAS MOORE thought tion told town truly Tunbridge verses week wish write written wrote yesterday
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Seite 30 - For he was of that stubborn crew Of errant saints, whom all men grant To be the true church militant ; Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun ; Decide all controversies by Infallible artillery ; And prove their doctrine orthodox By apostolic blows and knocks...
Seite 6 - At length, angered by this rival performance, Kemble walked with solemn step to the front of the stage, and, addressing the audience in his most tragic tones, said, ' Ladies and gentlemen, unless the play is stopped, the child cannot possibly go on.
Seite 169 - Between you and Lord Holland I fear I shall have ' ' applied to me the reverse of the famous epigram — " ' Wisdom and Wit full-sized were seen, And Folly, at small length, between.' ' I think there are few more generous spirits than Lord Byron's, and ' the overflowing praise he has lavished on me in his dedication (if ' he preserves that of which he has sent me a copy) is just such as ' might be expected from a profuse, magnificent-minded fellow, who ' does not wait for the scales to weigh what...
Seite 134 - I must dwindle into an humble follower — a Byronian. This is disheartening, and I sometimes doubt whether I shall publish it at all; though at the same time, if I may trust my own judgment, I think I never wrote so well before. But (as King Arthur, in ' Tom Thumb,' says)
Seite 113 - Rogers and I had a very pleasant tour of it, though I felt throughout it all, as I always feel with him, that the fear of losing his good opinion almost embitters the possession of it, and that, though in his society one walks upon roses, it is with constant apprehension of the thorns that are among them. . . . He has left me rather out of conceit with my poem,
Seite 31 - Shall I ask the brave soldier, who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree? Shall I give up the friend I have valued and tried, If he kneel not before the same altar with me...
Seite 5 - Mr. Speaker, have we laws or have we not laws ? If we have laws, and they are not observed, to what end were those laws made...
Seite 192 - I would not change the miseries of love For all the world calls happiness." Medwin disdained to reply to Ella's apt quotation in plain prose, and forthwith responded, — " Know'st thou two hearts by love subdued — Ask them which fate they covet — whether Health, joy, and life in solitude, Or sickness, grief, and death together.
Seite 206 - I have formidable favourites to contend with, and must try to make up my deficiencies in dash and vigour by a greater degree, if possible, of versatility and polish. Now it will take, at the least, six thousand lines to complete this plan, ie between two and three thousand more than I have yet done. By May next I expect to have five thousand finished. This is the number for which the Longmans stipulated, and accordingly in May I mean to appear in London, and nominally deliver the work into their...
Seite 180 - our fat friend ' go on ? among all these fighting chieftains, he seems particularly to distinguish himself in what is called fighting shy. Is he or is he not hissed wherever he goes ? and is the Princess of W. likely to survive Paul Methuen's speeches in her favour? Tell me all these important points, and likewise, whether you faced the sovereigns in full dress anywhere, and whether they expressed curiosity to see any of us Authors, or were merely contented with the Prince Regent, and such food...