Samuel Lover quotes
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“Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.”
-- Samuel LoverSource : Samuel Lover (1839). “Rory O'More. Revised”, p.151
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“When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.”
-- Samuel LoverSource : 'Handy Andy' (1842) ch. 36
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“Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.”
-- Samuel LoverSource : William Bayle Bernard, Samuel Lover (1874). “The Life of Samuel Lover, R. H. A.: Artistic, Literary, and Musical, with Selections from His Unpublished Papers and Correspondence”, p.113
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“A baby was sleeping, Its mother was weeping.”
-- Samuel LoverSource : Samuel Lover, Miss E. L. Williams (1857). “Songs and entertainment of Miss E.L. Williams, the Welsh nightingale ...”, p.15
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“For a ballad's a thing you expect to find lies in.”
-- Samuel LoverSource : Samuel Lover (1868). “The Poetical Works of Samuel Lover”, p.41
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“Sure the shovel and tongs To each other belongs.”
-- Samuel LoverSource : Samuel Lover (1858). “Songs and Ballads ... Fourth edition”, p.92
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“There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell.”
-- Samuel LoverSource : Samuel Lover (1858). “The Lyrics of Ireland. Edited and Annotated by S. Lover”, p.14
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“Where's the snow That fell the year that's fled--where's the snow?”
-- Samuel LoverSource : Samuel Lover (1858). “The Lyrics of Ireland. Edited and Annotated by S. Lover”, p.160
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“Sure my love is all crostLike a bud in the frostAnd there's no use at all in my going to bed,For 't is dhrames and not slape that comes into my head!”
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“There's luck in odd numbers.”
-- Samuel LoverSource : William Bayle Bernard, Samuel Lover (1874). “The Life of Samuel Lover, R. H. A.: Artistic, Literary, and Musical, with Selections from His Unpublished Papers and Correspondence”, p.145
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“How many chapters have been written about love verses - and how many more might be written! - might, would, could, should, or ought to be written! - I will venture to say, will be written!”
-- Samuel LoverSource : Samuel Lover (1842). “Handy Andy”, p.225
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“For dhrames always go by conthraries, my dear.”
-- Samuel LoverSource : Samuel Lover (1858). “The Lyrics of Ireland. Edited and Annotated by S. Lover”, p.108
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“I'll seek a four leaved shamrock in all thy fairy dells, And if I find the charmed leaves, oh, how I'll weave my spells!”
-- Samuel LoverSource : Samuel Lover, “The Four-Leaved Shamrock”
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“What is wine? It is the grape present in another form; its essence is there, though the fruit which produced it grew thousands of miles away, and perished years ago. So the object of many a tender thought may be spiritually present, in defiance of space - and fond recollections cherished in defiance of time.”
-- Samuel LoverSource : Samuel Lover, John PROCTOR (Artist) (1863). “Handy Andy: a tale of Irish life ... With eleven illustrations by John Proctor”, p.160
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“Too little is it considered, while we gaze on aristocratic beauty, how much good food, soft lying, warm wrapping, ease of mind, have to do with the attractions which command our admiration.”
-- Samuel LoverSource : Samuel Lover (1843). “Handy Andy: A Tale of Irish Life”, p.355
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“To return after long years of painful absence to some place which has been the scene of our former joys, and whence the force of circumstance, and not choice, has driven us, is oppressive to the heart.”
-- Samuel LoverSource : Samuel Lover (1843). “Handy Andy: A Tale of Irish Life”, p.363
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“My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!”
-- Samuel LoverSource : Samuel Lover, James Jeffrey Roche (1903). “The Collected Writings of Samuel Lover: Rory O'More, a national romance; with a biographical and critical introduction by James Jeffrey Roche”
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“The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled, will look less tempting when the biting winter has hung icicles there for gems.”
-- Samuel LoverSource : Samuel Lover (1843). “Handy Andy: A Tale of Irish Life”, p.356
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“Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.”
-- Samuel LoverSource : Samuel Lover (1844). “Songs and Ballads”, p.7
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