 Behold a proof of Irish sense : Here Irish wit is seen ; When nothing's left that's worth defence, They build a magazine ! * Besides these famous books of Scott's and Johnson's, there is a copious " Life  The Farmers' Register - Page 306edited by - 1838Full view - About this book
 | Henry Philip Dodd - 1875 - 748 pages
...Chink but Wood's halfpence, and he'll hear. ON THE NEW MAGAZINE FOR ASMS AND POWDER IN DUBLIN. Behold! a proof of Irish sense! Here Irish wit is seen ! When nothing's left, that's worth defence, During the lunacy of his latter years, Swift had lucid intervals, and was then taken out fur a drive.... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1881 - 878 pages
...and stores, which was pointed out to him as be 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 ! " t Besides these famous books of Scott's and Johnson's, there is a copious... | |
 | 1882 - 298 pages
...on returning home wrote down the following lines — the last that he ever produced : — " Behold ! a proof of Irish sense ; Here Irish wit is seen ; When nothing's left that's worth defence, "\Ye build a magazine." The opponents of the Channel Tunnel are doing all that they can to reduce these... | |
 | Sir Leslie Stephen - 1882 - 230 pages
...and is said to have written a well-known epigram during an outing with his attendants : — Behold a proof of Irish sense ! Here Irish wit is seen ! When nothing's left that's worth defence They build a magazine. Occasionally he gave way to furious outbursts of violent temper ; and once suffered... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1882 - 874 pages
...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 ! " t Besides these famous books of Scott's and Johnson's, there is a copious... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1882 - 236 pages
...and is said to have written a well-known epigram during an outing with his attendants : — Behold a proof of Irish sense ! Here Irish wit is seen ! When nothing's left that's worth defenco They build a magazine. Occasionally he gave way to furious outbursts of violent temper ; and... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1883 - 668 pages
...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 1 " ,--e Dr. Wilde of Dublin,* who has written a most interesting voiume on the... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, William Cooke Taylor - 1884 - 490 pages
...memory put down that.' " He then produced the following lines, the last which he ever wrote : Behold a proof of Irish sense ! . Here Irish wit is seen...When nothing's left that's worth defence. We build n magazine. The greatest difficulty in the analysis of Swift's literary character is to discover by... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - 1884 - 460 pages
...exercise, the building of a magazine for arms was pointed out to him, on which he wrote : — Behold a proof of Irish sense ! Here Irish wit is seen ; When nothing's left that's worth defence, They build a magazine! The medical profession have always come in for a liberal share of epigrammatic... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - 1884 - 458 pages
...exercise, the building of л magazine for arms was pointed out to him, on which he wrote : — • Behold a proof of Irish sense ! Here Irish wit is seen ; When nothing's left that's worth defend), They build a magazine I The medical profession have always come in fora liberal share of epigrammatic... | |
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