Memoirs, Journal, and Correspondence of Thomas Moore: DiaryLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1853 - 367 pages |
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Page 170 - marriage (2nd of next January), most marvellously comical: — To PENELOPE. " This day of all our days has done The worst for me and you; 'Tis now six years since we were one, And five since we were two." Went into town with my letters. Dined at Story's: company, the Villamils, Forsters, &c. &c. Music in the evening.
Page 42 - don't care how you philosophise, so you leave me my immortal soul. He that steals my purse, steals trash; but he that filches from me my immortal soul,
Page 115 - publication or circulation of such a composition at any time as prejudicial to Ada's future happiness. For my own sake, I have no reason to shrink from publication ; but, notwithstanding the injuries which I have suffered, I should lament some of the consequences.
Page 225 - d'Arc." Attended watchfully to her recitative, and find that, in nine lines out of ten," A cobbler there was and he lived in a stall," is the tune of the French heroics. Took the Storys this morning to see Gerard's " Corinne." 25th. Dined at Story's: company, Cope, Irving, &c. &c.
Page 72 - E l'altra, che le diede il Tempo irato, Par, che si prenda a scherno : Son piene di splendor le sue sventure, E il gran cenere suo si mostra eterno : E noi, rivolti ali' onorate sponde Del Tebro, invitto fiume Or miriamo passar le tumid' onde Col primo orgoglio ancor
Page 211 - pages of the size of those in the " Sketch Book;" this is amazing rapidity. Has followed up an idea which I suggested, and taken the characters in his " Christmas Essay," Master Simon, &c. &c., for the purpose of making a slight thread of a story on which to string his remarks and sketches of human manners and feelings:
Page 192 - who has thus answered my confession of having' no coat by asking me to dinner. Walked with Charles Sheridan, for the purpose of leaving my answer at the Palais Royal: am engaged to Lord Rancliffe to-morrow, but, of course, cannot disobey the royal command. Sheridan told me that his father, being a good deal plagued by
Page 281 - Marmontel's Memoirs" struck me. Talking of the choice of a profession his mother says, Pour le barreau, si vous y entrez,je vous exige la parole la plus inviolable, que vous n'y affirmerez jamais que ce que vous croirez vrai, que vous n'y
Page 251 - By the bye, I yesterday gave Lady Holland Lord Byron's " Memoirs " to read; and on my telling her that I rather feared he had mentioned her name in an unfair manner somewhere, she said,