The Last Earls of Barrymore, 1769-1824 ...S. Low Marston & Company, 1894 - 272 pages |
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200 guineas 50 guineas actors affair amusement Angelo Anthony Pasquin appeared asked Augustus Barry ball betting Brighton brother Buttevant Captain Wathen Chanticleer CHAPTER character Charles James Charles James Fox Chifney Club coach colt Countess of Harrington Delphini dinner Duke Earl Barrymore Earl of Barry Earl of Barrymore Earl's racing Edwin engagements entertainment fact favour favourite filly Fox's friends Garrick Gretna Green guests Henry Angelo Henry Barry Honourable Hooper horse Incledon Jockey Johnson Lady last Earl London Lord Barrymore's Lord Barrymore's Chanticleer lordship Magpie masquerade ball match matter ment Newmarket old course Pallafox performance person play present Prince of Wales prompter pugilistic racing stud record replied residence Rockingham Royal Seagull Second Spring Meeting Sir John Lade Skewball soon sport supper theatre Theatre Royal theatrical thought took turf village visitors Wales's Wargrave whip Williams won by Lord
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Page 15 - Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own : He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
Page 15 - Happy the man - and happy he alone He who can call today his own, He who, secure within, can say 'Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of Fate are mine: Not Heaven itself upon the Past has power, But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.
Page 179 - To whip a top, to knuckle down at taw, To swing upon a gate, to ride a straw, To play at push-pin with dull brother peers, To belch out catches in a porter's ears, To reign the monarch of a midnight cell, To be the gaping chairman's oracle; Whilst, in most blessed union, rogue and whore Clap hands, huzza, and hiccup out, 'Encore;' Whilst gray Authority, who slumbers there In robes of watchman's fur, gives up his chair; With midnight howl to bay the...
Page 43 - ... light and jolly, There the lender, grave and sly. Wealth, my lad, was made to wander, Let it wander as it will ; Call the jockey, call the pander, Bid them come and take their fill. When the bonny blade carouses, Pockets full, and spirits high — What are acres? what are houses ? Only dirt, or wet or dry. Should the guardian friend or mother Tell the woes of wilful waste; Scorn their counsel, scorn their pother, — You can hang or drown at last.
Page 153 - For e'en though vanquished, he could argue still; While words of learned length and thundering sound Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around, And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head could carry all he knew. But past is all his fame. The very spot Where many a time he triumphed, is forgot.
Page 154 - Yes! let the rich deride, the proud disdain These simple blessings of the lowly train; To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art.
Page 152 - His house was known to all the vagrant train ; He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain.
Page 151 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose, A man he was, to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had...
Page 93 - Why, I thought, Sir John, that my debt to you was a debt of honour ; but as you seem to view it in another light, and seriously mean to make a trading debt of it, I...
Page 242 - Pasquin's head Be full as hard and near as thick as thine, Yet has the world, admiring, on it read Many a keen gibe and many a sportive line. While nothing from thy jobbernowl can spring But impudence and filth; for...