...defence of the city* Oh, said the Dean, let me note that, when drawing out his tablets he wrote — " Behold a proof of Irish sense, Here Irish wit is seen,...nothing's left that's worth defence, We build a magazine." The fifteen acres (as an open level plain beyond this, and opposite the Viceregal Lodge, is termed,)...

...produced the following lines, being the last the Dean ever wrote : " Behold a proof of Irish sense 1 Here Irish wit is seen ; When nothing's left that's worth defence, We build a magazine." He then put up his pocket-book, laughing heartily at the conceit, and clinching it with " When the...

...Magazine known as Wharton's Folly, and which Swift made the subject of one of his latest epigrams : " Behold a proof of Irish sense ! Here Irish wit is seen : When nothing 's left that 's worth defence, We build a magazine." It is the kind of wit of which there has...

...memory, put down that !" ' Which produced" these " lines, said to be the last he ever wrote : — " Behold ! a proof of Irish sense ; Here Irish wit is...nothing's left that's worth defence, We build a magazine." How far this proves the insanity of its author the reader is to judge. As, however, the most complete,...

...memory, put down that !" ' Which produced" these " lines, said to be the last he ever wrote : — ' ' Behold ! a proof of Irish sense ; Here Irish wit is...nothing's left that's worth defence, We build a magazine." How far this proves the insanity of its author the reader is to judge. We must now conclude the history...

...tabletsmemory, put down that!"' Which produced" these " lines, said to be the last he ever wrote:— " Behold I a proof of Irish sense; Here Irish wit is seen! When...nothing's left that's worth defence, We build a magazine." How fur this proves the insanity of its author the reader is to judge. As, however, the most complete,...

...memory put down that — which produced these lines, said to be the last ho ever wrote — " Bchold ! a proof of Irish sense, Here Irish wit is seen ; When nothing's left that's worth defence, They build a magazine ! And hereupon Mr, Wilde, with an air of trinmph, exclaims, " How far this proves...

...;' " which led to the following epigram, supposed to be the last vf rses which he produced : — '* Behold a proof of Irish sense. Here Irish wit is seen ; When nothing's left thnt's worth defence, We build a. magazine." In the very singular exhortation, likewise, addreesed...

...for arms and stores, which was pointed out to him as he went abroad during his mental disease : — Behold a proof of Irish sense : Here Irish wit is seen ; When nothing's left that's worth defence, They build a magazine ! 9 Besides these famous books of Scott's and Johnson's, there is a copious "...

...for arms and stores, which was pointed out to him as he went abroad during his mental disease: — Behold a proof of Irish sense: Here Irish wit is seen; When nothing's left that's worth defence, They build a magazine! bring himself to love him; and by stout old Johnson,* who, forced to admit him...