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21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To take care of the life of poor Jack."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "God grant it! God grant it!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He seems, continued she,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Women ... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I only wish Jacob was here--that's all."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then you have your wish, my good old friend,"
}
] |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O deary me! cried the old woman--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "O deary me! I do believe my hip is out! Lord, Mr Jacob, how you frightened me!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, said old Tom, shaking me warmly by the hand,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mary, I do not know whether, after what I have seen, I ought to give the message; and the pleasure I anticipated in meeting you again is destroyed by what I have now witnessed. How disgraceful is it thus to play with a man's feelings--to write to him, assuring him of your regard... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr Dobbs,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Cosine of _X plus AB minus Z minus a half_; such must be the result, said the Dominie talking to himself."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yet it doth not prove correct. I may be in error. Let me revise my work,"
... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Boys, cried the Dominie,"
}
] |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come, Jacob, let us adjourn to my sanctum; there may we commune without interruption. Thou shalt tell me thine adventures, and I will communicate to thee what hath been made known to me relative to those with whom thou wert acquainted."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, what's all this! said she, in a querulous tone."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Jacob here, and all my cupboard on the table. Jacob, how dare you go to my cupboard?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was the Dominie, Mrs Bately, who looked there for ... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's why you went to my cupboard, is it, Mr Dobbs? cried she, in a passion."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's it, is it? I thought my bottle went very fast; seeing that I don't take more than a tea-spoonful every night, for the wind which vexes me so much. I'll... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Verily do I remember that young Tom, a jocund, pleasant, yet intrusive lad. Yet do I wish him well, and am grieved that he should be so taken by that maiden Mary. Well may we say of her, as Horace hath of Pyrrha--`_Quis multa gracilis te puer in rosa, perfusis liquidis urgit odo... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jacob, I have not yet congratulated thee upon thy accession to wealth; not that I do not sincerely rejoice in it, but because the pleasure of thy presence has made me unmindful of it. Still, was it fortunate for thee that thou hadst raised up such a friend as Mr Turnbull; otherw... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And all this, and more, much more, are mine, I mentally exclaimed;"
}
] |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Miss Drummond,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr Faithful, replied she; and then, after a break--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How very silly this is; I ought to have congratulated you upon your safe return, and upon your good fortune; and, indeed, Mr... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jacob, said he, as we were sitting at the tea-table with Mrs Drummond and Sarah,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I knew at the time that you were toiling on the river for shillings that you were the inheritor of thousands; for I not only witnessed but read the will of... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tom! exclaimed I,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "By water, Jacob, as you may suppose."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But how have you received your discharge? Is the ship come home?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hope not; the fact is, I d... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you recollect me?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, replied the lady,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I do recollect your face--surely--it is Faithful, the waterman!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, I am not a waterman; I am only amusi... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Would you like to have a row on the water? It is a beautiful day, and if Mrs Wharncliffe will trust herself--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, I should like it above all things. Will you go. William? I will run for a shawl."
}
] |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How do you like that one?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is very handsome, and I think one of the very best."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is mine, replied I."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Will you allow me to show it to you?"
},... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bless me! what tricks you young gentlemen do play. Only to think how you asked me for water, and how I pushed the door in your face, and wouldn't let you rest yourself. But if you young gentlemen will disguise yourselves, it's your own faults, and you must take the consequences.... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "HUMAN NATUR'"
}
] |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I see, Jacob, my son, what thou wouldst wish: but it must not be. Man is but a creature of habit; habit becomes to him not only necessity but luxury. For five-and-forty years have I toiled, instilling precepts and forcing knowledge into the brains of those who have never proved ... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where is Tom?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh deary me! cried the old woman, putting her apron up to her eyes;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good heavens! what is the matter?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The matter, Jacob, replied old T... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You can't despise me so much as I despise myself, continued Mary;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hate, I detest myself for my folly. I recollect now how you used to caution me when a girl. Oh, mother, mother, it was a cruel legacy you left to your child, when you g... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you had time to procure a substitute it would be easily arranged; but the regiment is so weak, and the aversion to the West Indies so prevalent after this last very sickly season, that I doubt if His Royal Highness would permit any man to purchase his discharge. However, we w... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And yet, how often is it the case, Sarah, not perhaps to the extent carried on by this mistaken girl; but still, the disappointment is as great, although the consequences are not so calamitous. Among the higher classes, how often do young men receive encouragement, and yield the... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good heavens! Tom! are you back? then you must have deserted."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Very true, replied Tom, sinking on a chair,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I swam on shore last night, and have made from Portsmouth to here since eight o'clock... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is, indeed, an awkward business, said he,"
}
] |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It will rest altogether with the Horse Guards, Mr Faithful, and I am afraid I can give you but little hope. His Royal Highness has expressed his determination to punish the next deserter with the utmost severity of the law. His leniency on that point has been very injurious to t... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is kind, Jacob, but not more than I expected of you--I made sure that I should see you to-night or to-morrow morning. How's poor Mary? I care only for her now--I am satisfied--she loves me, and--I knocked out the sergeant's eye--spoilt his wooing, at all events."
},
{
... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Verily, said the Dominie,"
}
] |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's all over now, Jacob; and there is no hope that I am aware of, and I have made up my mind to die; but I wish these last farewells were over, for they unman me. I hope you are well, sir,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nay, my poor boy, I am as well as age and infi... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My boy--my boy--my dear, dear boy! said she at last, and she looked up steadfastly in his face."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My God! he'll be dead to-morrow!"
}
] |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are not angry with me, father, for deserting?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, my boy, no; I was angry with you for 'listing, but not for deserting. What business had you with the pipeclay? But I do think I have reason to be angry elsewhere, when I reflect that... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jacob, said Tom, squeezing me by the hand, with a quivering lip,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I sent out the Dominie. Tom leant against the wall, with his arms folded, in appearance summoning up all his energy for the painful meeting. Mary was led in by her father.... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are they all gone?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All, Tom."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then the bitterness of death is past; God have mercy on them, and assuage their anguish; they want His help more than I do."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"valu... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "THANK GOD!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "His Majesty's ship _Immortalite_ Chatham, to be paid off. Then our ship has come home. But what was that now? Yet something whispered to me that I ought to go and see Captain Maclean, and try if anything could be done. I knew... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Faithful, replied he,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There is no time to lose, sir, replied I, respectfully;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He will be on board here to-morrow at nine o'clock, or I am not Captain Maclean. But, as you say, there is no tim... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good heavens, how fortunate! You can establish his identity, I presume."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Every man here can swear to him."
}
] |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My lads, exclaimed he,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am ready; the sooner this is over the better."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, Tom, said I, advancing;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I trust for better fortune. You are claimed as a ... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What will be the result?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The captain says, little or nothing, as he was pressed as an apprentice, which is contrary to Act of Parliament."
}
] |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, Tom, said I,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, to my mother,"
}
] |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good morning to you both, said I;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah, deary me!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sit down, Jacob, sit down, said old Tom;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, now that he's in heaven, poor fellow!"
},
{
"f... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You must now part with Tom a little while, said I;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Very true, replied old Tom;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, no. Go, Tom; go and tell her that I don't care how soon she is my daughter."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You do not come to upbraid me, Jacob, I am sure, said she, in a melancholy voice;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, no, Mary; I come to comfort you, if possible."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is not possible. Look at me, Jacob. Is there not a wor... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Glad of it, glad of it, said he, when I finished."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I were just thinking how all these senses brought us into trouble, more than all, that sense of love; got me into trouble, and made me kill a man--got my poor wife into trouble, and drow... |
21549 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And now, Sarah, having so successfully arranged the affairs of other people, I should like to plead in my own behalf. I think that after having been deprived almost wholly of your dear company for a month, I deserve to be rewarded."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You ... |
130846 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then what is it?"
}
] |
506566 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Father of American Constitutionalism,"
}
] |
743502 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stone or"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Stoning,"
}
] |
913014 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Name's Watson, ain't it."
}
] |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lalla Rookh"
}
] |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "; and it is easy enough to understand why the precocious imp of a boy found favour with this distinguished person and her guests. He had all the gifts of an actor and a mimic, and they were encouraged in him first at home, and then at the boarding-school to which he was sent. Sa... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hail heaven-taught votary of the laurel'd Nine"
}
] |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Our Pantaloon that did so agéd look Must now resume his youth, his task, his book; Our Harlequin who skipp'd, leap'd, danced, and died, Must now stand trembling by his tutor's side."
}
] |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is far more of what is called vanity in my now reporting the tribute, than I felt then in receiving it; and I attribute very much to the cheerful and kindly circumstances which thus surrounded my childhood, that spirit of enjoyment and, I may venture to add, good temper, w... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I said that the want of this manly training showed itself in my poetry, which would perhaps have had a far more vigorous character, if it had not been for the sort of _boudoir_ education I had received. ("
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The only thing, indeed, he adds... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thomas Moore, P. Prot, _i.e._ Commoner (pensionarius), Protestant. Now Moore himself states that it was for a while debated in the family circle whether he should be entered as a Protestant to qualify him for scholarship, fellowship and the rest; he does not seem to know that a ... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "as Mr. Lecky calls it--had shattered the hopes of Irish Catholics and made civil war a result to be eagerly urged by extremists on both sides."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The political ferment soon found its way within the walls of our university,"
},
{
"f... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A few days after, in the course of one of those strolls into the country which Emmet and I used often to take together, our conversation turned upon this letter, and I gave him to understand it was mine; when, with that almost feminine gentleness of manner which he possessed, an... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The deliberate conclusion which my dear, honest father and mother came to was that, overwhelming as the consequences were to all their prospects and hopes for me, yet if the questions leading to the crimination of others which had been put to almost all examined on that day, and... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But the night-dew that falls, though in silence it weeps, Shall brighten with verdure the grave where he sleeps; And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls, Shall long keep his memory green in our souls."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have but one request... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah! not the love that should have bless'd So young, so innocent a breast; Not the pure, open, prosperous love, That, pledged on earth and seal'd above, Grows in the world's approving eyes, In friendship's smile and home's caress, Collecting all the heart's sweet ties Into one kn... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! make her a grave where the sunbeams rest When they promise a glorious morrow; They'll shine o'er her sleep, like a smile from the West, From her own loved island of sorrow."
}
] |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and had"
}
] |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Little (the supposititious author)"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "; and it is safe to conclude that Mr. Little's original read, in the fine library founded by Archbishop Marsh, whatever the Latin and Greek writers had to say on the subject of gallantry. Here also... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dr. Kearney was sympathetic and flattering, but at the same time"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nevertheless, he strongly advised publication, adding, with an agreeable touch of nature,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The young people will like it. It ma... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "(Moore writes),"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The journey was accomplished successfully, and quarters were found for the traveller at 44 George Street, Portman Square, by some Irish acquaintances. Except for his Irish connections, most of them people in a small way ... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This was of course at that time, Moore observes with that good-humoured candour which is a characteristic of him,"
}
] |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My dear Mother, I have got the Prince's name and his permission that I should dedicate _Anacreon_ to him. Hurra! Hurra!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He is beyond doubt a man of very fascinating manners,"
},
{
"f... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do not let any one read this letter but yourselves; none but a father and a mother can bear such egotising vanity; but I know who I am writing to--that they are interested in what is said of me, and that they are too partial not to tolerate my speaking of myself."
}
] |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The early poets of our language, says the preface to Little's Poems,"
}
] |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is but little known with certainty of the life of Anacreon. Chamæleon Heracleotes, who wrote upon the subject, has been lost in the general wreck of ancient literature."
}
] |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Still the question I must parry, Still a wayward truant prove, Where I love I cannot marry, Where I marry cannot love."
}
] |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fragments of College Exercises"
}
] |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In 1802 he had hopes of Lord Moira's coming into administration. But Lord Moira did not come in, and though considerable sums were earned by the Poems, Moore was obliged to borrow from his mother's brother. In the early part of 1803 a proposal was made to him, by Wickham, then C... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There could be no such deception carried on with her where you, or indeed any one of her family, were concerned, for she seems to know everything respecting them by instinct. It would not be doing her the justice she well deserves to exclude her from such confidence.... For my p... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The morn was lovely, every wave was still, When the first perfume of a cedar-hill Sweetly awaked us, and, with smiling charms, The fairy harbour woo'd us to its arms. Gently we stole, before the languid wind, Through plantain shades, that like an awning twined And kiss'd on eith... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "These little islands are thickly covered with cedar groves, through the vistas of which you catch a few pretty white houses, which my poetical short-sightedness always transforms into temples; and I often expect to see Nymphs and Graces come tripping from them, when I find, to m... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Give me the Harp of Epic Song, had been arranged by Stevenson as a glee, and its performance by the Irish Harmonic Club so pleased Lord Hardwicke, then Viceroy, that he conferred a knighthood on the composer. Moore's last letter on leaving England contained directions for collec... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh darling mother, he cries,"
}
] |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, my dear little fellow, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nor was that the end of it. In 1814 Douglas, then Admiral on the Jamaica Station, offered Moore the Secretaryship,"
}
] |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "America at that time was beyond dispute inchoate, amorphous, and ugly in all senses, and Moore's instincts were anything but democratic. At Philadelphia,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "he found his writings well known, and met with a flattering reception, which pleas... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Plymouth, Old England once more."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh dear, he goes on,"
}
] |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All the Talents, and for a moment it seemed as if Moira would be included. His protégé's hopes ran high, but they were dashed. A small appointment was offered to Moore, but refused by him on the ground that it would be"
}
] |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! say, do you thus, in the luminous hour Of wine and of wit, when the heart is in flower, And shoots from the lip, under Bacchus's dew, In blossoms of thought ever springing and new-- Do you sometimes remember, and hallow the brim Of your cup with a sigh, as you crown it to hi... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All youth's transgression with all age's chill The apathy of wrong, the bosom's ice, A slow and cold stagnation into vice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fall of Hebe and one described as a"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fragment of a Mythological Hymn ... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "(Moore writes in the memoir of this transaction)"
}
] |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "for"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and pleasantries were rife about author and critic fighting with pellets of paper. Moore was furious, and persuaded Horner to draw up an account of the matter, to be signed by the two seconds, but Hume"
}
] |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have written nothing since I came here, he tells Miss Godfrey--dating his letter Dublin, February 23rd--"
}
] |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Another difficulty (which is, however, purely mechanical) arises from the irregular structure of many of those airs, and the lawless kind of metre which it will in consequence be necessary to adapt to them. In these instances, the Poet must write, not to the eye, but to the ear;... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "from whom"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Power has had promises of assistance. But his success precluded all competition. The twenty-four songs comprised in the first two numbers include some of his very best and much of his most popular work, and it is interesting t... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I begin at last to find out that _politics_ is the only thing minded in this country, and that it is better even to rebel against government than to have nothing to do with it; so I am writing politics."
}
] |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hence the rich oil, that from the Treasury steals, Drips smooth o'er all the Constitution's wheels, Giving the old machine such pliant play, That Court and Commons jog one joltless way, While Wisdom trembles for the crazy car, So gilt, so rotten, carrying fools so far."
},
{... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The last sad hour of freedom's dream, And valour's task, moved slowly by, While mute they watched till morning's beam Should rise and give them light to die."
}
] |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But on the 22nd October the new recruit made his first appearance in the small part of David in _The Rivals_, and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The success was renewed by him as Mungo in _The Padlock_, and as Spado (a singing part) in _A Castle of Andalusia_. Next y... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am delighted with your intention to make your debut on the stage--as an author I mean. Of your fame as an actor, I have had many reverberations. Nothing more came of the intention at the moment, but in December 1810 Moore returned to London after a two years' absence, and writ... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your sketch of Ireland is most gloomy. Twelve months later, and after Miss E. Dyke's first appearance in Mr. Power's company, Rogers writes,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am rejoiced to think you are happy, which indeed you cannot fail to be while you are making o... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wish, he says,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I could give you even a tolerable account of what I have done; but I don't know how it is, both my mind and heart appear to have lain for some time completely fallow, and even the usual crop of _wild oats_ has not been ... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Be very sure, my dear Moore, that if you have got an amiable, sensible wife, extremely attached to you, as I am certain you have, it is only in the long run of life that you can know the full value of the treasure you possess. If you did but see, as I see with bitter regret in a... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In Lord Moira's exclusion from all chances of power, I see an end to the long hope of my life; and my intention is to go far away into the country, there to devote the remainder of my life to the dear circle I am forming around me, to the quiet pursuit of literature, and, I hope... |
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