O'Hara: Or, 1798, Volume 2

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Page 191 - OR love me less, or love me more ; And play not with my liberty : Either take all, or all restore ; Bind me at least, or set me free ! Let me some nobler torture find Than of a doubtful wavering mind : Take all my peace ! but you betray Mine honour too, this cruel way.
Page 50 - Three things a wise man will not trust, The Wind, the Sunshine of an April day, And Woman's plighted faith. I have beheld The Weathercock upon the steeple point Steady from morn till eve ; and I have seen The bees go forth upon an April morn, Secure the sunshine will not end in showers ; But when was Woman true...
Page 113 - But they have no power o'er me. Less my substance, less my share In my fear and in my care. Thus to love, and thus to live, Thus to take, and thus to give, Thus to laugh, and thus to sing, Thus to mount on pleasure's wing, Thus to sport, and thus to speed, Thus to flourish, nourish, feed, Thus to spend, and thus to spare, Is to bid a fig for care.
Page 235 - What are the falling rills, the pendant shades, The morning bowers, the evening colonnades, But soft recesses for th' uneasy mind, To sigh unheard in, to the passing wind ! So the struck deer, in some...
Page 156 - I suffer is surely a severe one ; may the makers and promoters of it, be justified in the integrity of their motives and the purity of their own lives. — By that law, I am stamped a felon, but my heart disdains the imputation. My comfortable lot and industrious course of life, best refute the charge of being an adventurer for plunder : but if to have loved my country, to have known its wrongs, to have felt the injuries of...
Page 158 - I peremptorily refused; did I think myself guilty, I should be free to confess it, but, on the contrary, I glory in my innocence. I trust, that all my virtuous countrymen will bear me in their kind remembrance, and continue true and faithful to each other, as I have been to all of them.
Page 156 - ... heart disdains the imputation. My comfortable lot and industrious course of life, best refute the charge of being an adventurer for plunder ; but if to have loved my country, to have known its wrongs, to have felt the injuries of the persecuted Catholics, and to have united with them and all other religious persuasions, in the most orderly and least sanguinary means of procuring redress ; if those be felonies, I am a felon, but not otherwise.
Page 244 - A steed ! a steed ! of matchless speede ! A sword of metal keene ! Al else to noble heartes is drosse — Al else on earth is meane. The neighynge of the war-horse prowde, The rowleing of the drum, The clangour of the trumpet lowde — Be soundes from heaven that come.
Page 161 - God that fits on high, Knoweth all Things. That Sunday in the Morn, Welladay, &c. That he to the City came, With all his Troops; Did firft. begin the Strife, And caus'd his Lofs of Life, And others did the like, As well as he. Yet her Princely...
Page 155 - I have been sentenced to die upon the gallows, and this sentence has been in pursuance of a verdict of twelve men, who should have been indifferently and impartially chosen ; how far they have been so, I leave to that country from which they have been chosen, to determine ; and how far they have discharged their duty, I leave to their God and to themselves. — They have, in pronouncing their verdict, thought proper to recommend me as an object of human mercy ; in return, I pray to God, if they have...

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