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THE CONFESSIONS OF HARRY LORREQUER [By Charles James Lever (1806 1872)] Dublin MDCCCXXXIX. A crowd is a mob, if composed even of bishops And some did pray who never prayed before Annoyance of her vulgar loquacity Enjoy the name without the gain Enough is as good as a feast Fighting like devils for conciliation Has but one fault, but that fault is a grand one Hating each other for the love of God He was very much disguised in drink How ingenious is self deception My English proves me Irish Mistaking zeal for inclination Mistaking your abstraction for attention Rather a dabbler in the "ologies" The tone of assumed compassion That "to stand was to fall," That land of punch, priests, and potatoes What will not habit accomplish
"We talked of pipe clay regulation caps
Long twenty fours short culverins and mortars
Condemn'd the 'Horse Guards' for a set of raps,
And cursed our fate at being in such quarters.
Some smoked, some sighed, and some were heard to snore;
Some wished themselves five fathoms 'neat the Solway;
And some did pray who never prayed before
That they might get the 'route' for Cork or Galway."
FAVORITE QUOTATIONS
A c'est egal, mam'selle, they don't mind these things in France
A rather unlady like fondness for snuff
A crowd is a mob, if composed even of bishops
Accept of benefits with a tone of dissatisfaction
Accustomed to the slowness and the uncertainty of the law
Air of one who seeks to consume than enjoy his time
Always a pleasure felt in the misfortunes of even our best friend
Amount of children which is algebraically expressed by an X
And some did pray who never prayed before
Annoyance of her vulgar loquacity
Brought a punishment far exceeding the merits of the case
Chateaux en Espagne
Chew over the cud of his misfortune
Daily association sustains the interest of the veriest trifles
Dear, dirty Dublin Io te salute
Delectable modes of getting over the ground through life
Devilish hot work, this, said the colonel
Disputing "one brandy too much" in his bill
Empty, valueless, heartless flirtation
Ending I never yet met the man who could tell when it ended
Enjoy the name without the gain
Enough is as good as a feast
Escaped shot and shell to fall less gloriously beneath champagne
Every misfortune has an end at last
Exclaimed with Othello himself, "Chaos was come again;"
Fearful of a self deception where so much was at stake
Fighting like devils for conciliation
Finish in sorrow what you have begun in folly
Gardez vous des femmes, and more especially if they be Irish
Green silk, "a little off the grass, and on the bottle"
Had a most remarkable talent for selecting a son in law
Had to hear the "proud man's contumely"
Half pleased and whole frightened with the labour before him
Has but one fault, but that fault is a grand one
Hating each other for the love of God
He first butthers them up, and then slithers them down
He was very much disguised in drink
How ingenious is self deception
If such be a sin, "then heaven help the wicked"
Indifferent to the many rebuffs she momentarily encountered
Involuntary satisfaction at some apparent obstacle to my path
Jaunting cars, with three on a side and "one in the well"
Least important functionaries took the greatest airs upon them
Levelling character of a taste for play
Listen to reason, as they would call it in Ireland
Memory of them when hallowed by time or distance
Might almost excite compassion even in an enemy
Misfortune will find you out, if ye were hid in a tay chest
Mistaking zeal for inclination
Mistaking your abstraction for attention
My English proves me Irish
My French always shows me to be English
Never able to restrain myself from a propensity to make love
Nine inside leathern "conveniency," bumping ten miles an hour
No equanimity like his who acts as your second in a duel
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