Samuel Lover Quotes

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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!
• For dhrames always go by conthraries, my dear.
• How many chapters have been written about love verses - and how many more might be written! - might, would, could, should, or ought to…
• A baby was sleeping, Its mother was weeping.
• For a ballad's a thing you expect to find lies in.
• Sure the shovel and tongs To each other belongs.
• There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell.
• Where's the snow That fell the year that's fled--where's the snow?
• 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…
• Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.
• Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
• Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.
• 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…
• The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled, will look less tempting when the biting winter has hung icicles there for gems.
• My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen.
• Oh, happy triumph of the poet! - to hear his verses wedded to sweet sounds, and warbled by the woman he loves!

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