Date: February 17, 1786
"The bonds of Hymen o'er my mind, / My constant soul must ever bind."
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Date: 1788
"Worlds would I give now for that sketch of my Quintin, that my cruel brother deprived me of; but his dear image is engraven on my heart"
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Date: 1788
"[A guardian] claps a pen in my hand, and ties me like a seal to his ugly parchment, while my heart can receive no impression, but the idea of my beloved Aircourt"
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Date: 1788
"O yes, this is his valet that Lady Jane mentioned, this is her O'Donovan and my Aircourt, but my heart is steel'd against him"
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Date: 1790
"Your zeal for the Czar hurries you to an inhumanity, that I thought a stranger to the breast of my gentle Michaelhoff."
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Date: 1797
"And every sordid, base alloy, / Let's from our bosoms move; / For was our gold but Irish brass, / Good humour's stamp can make it pass"
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Date: 1797
"--oh! here's Redmond O Hanlon, though now the constable and the county keeper, yet he was a heart of steel, that I'm sure of."
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Date: 1797
"Yes, in Antrim I was a heart of steel, in Clonmel I was a white boy."
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Date: 1797
"For then first throbb'd an heart of steel."
preview | full record— O'Keeffe, John (1747-1833)
Date: 1797
"here's Redmond O'Hanlon, though now the constable and the county keeper, yet he was a heart of steel, that I'm sure of."
preview | full record— O'Keeffe, John (1747-1833)