Jack Hinton, the guardsman. With illustr. by H.K. Browne

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Page 371 - LAWN LET the farmer praise his grounds, Let the huntsman praise his hounds, The shepherd his dew-scented lawn; But I, more blest than they, Spend each happy night and day With my charming little cruiskeen lawn, lawn, lawn, My charming little cruiskeen lawn.
Page 181 - Irish, and which gives an expression to the eye, whatever be its color, of inexpressible softness ; their voices too, albeit the accent was provincial, were soft and musical, and their manners quiet and lady-like. Yet, somehow, they stood immeasurably apart from her. I have already ventured on one illustration from the cookery, may I take another from the cellar ? How often in wines of the same vintage, of even the same cask, do we find one bottle whose bouquet is more aromatic, whose...
Page 120 - St. Patrick this order established, He called us the "Monks of the Screw;" Good rules he revealed to our Abbot To guide us in what we should do; But first he replenished our fountain With liquor the best in the sky; And he said, on the word of a saint, That the fountain should never run dry.
Page 287 - Few are those events that are produced by vice and folly, that fire the heart with indignation, that do not also shake the sides with laughter. So when the two famous moralists of old beheld the sad spectacle of life, the one burst into laughter, the other melted into tears : they were each of them right, and equally right. . Si credas utrique Rea sunt hn mane Jle bile ludibriuni.

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