United States or Gambia ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
My Lord Charlemont who was one of the most elegant and accomplished noblemen in Ireland in those days, a fine scholar and wit, a gentleman who had travelled much abroad, where I had the honour of knowing him gave a magnificent masquerade at his house of Marino, some few miles from Dublin, on the Dunleary road.
She had made a most successful debut in the Dublin world, where she was much admired and flattered, and which soon suggested to her quick mind, as it has often done in similar cases to a young provincial debutante, not to waste her "fraicheur" upon the minor theatres, but at once to appear upon the "great boards;" so far evidencing a higher flight of imagination and enterprise than is usually found among the clique of her early associates, who may be characterized as that school of young ladies, who like the "Corsair" and Dunleary, and say, "ah don't!"
Here, however, they knew better; and though the lawyer quizzed the doctor for never having another patient than the house dog, all of whose arteries he had tied in the course of the winter for practice and the doctor retorted as heavily, by showing that the lawyer's practice had been other than beneficial to those for whom he was concerned his one client being found guilty, mainly through his ingenious defence of him; yet they never showed any, the slightest irritation on the contrary, such little playful badinage ever led to some friendly passages of taking wine together, or in arrangements for a party to the "Dargle," or "Dunleary;" and thus went on the entire party, the young ladies darting an occasion slight at their elders, who certainly returned the fire, often with advantage; all uniting now and then, however, in one common cause, an attack of the whole line upon Mrs.
Dunleary, "the first speaker, had scarcely taken his seat on the platform when the people rushed to the chairman's table from all parts of the house with their hands full of silver dollars," and could hardly be induced to stay their generosity until the meeting was organized. A treasurer and two committees were appointed; the one to solicit subscriptions, and the other to purchase supplies.
Before that day, so memorable for joy and sorrow, for rapture at receiving its monarch and tearful grief at losing him, when George IV. came and left the maritime resort of the citizens of Dublin, it bore a less genteel name than that which it owns at present, and was called Dunleary.
At length Richard, despairing of dislodging him from his fastnesses in Idrone, or fighting a way out of them, sent to him another deputation of "the English and Irish of Leinster," inviting him to Dublin to a personal interview. This proposal was accepted, and the English king continued his way to Dublin, probably along the sea coast by Bray and the white strand, over Killiney and Dunleary.
A transport was lying at Dunleary, waiting for a wind, and on board that ship, to which I marched that night, I made some surprising discoveries, which shall be told in the next chapter. I never had a taste for anything but genteel company, and hate all descriptions of low life.
After that glorious event Dunleary disdained to be Dunleary any longer, and became Kingstown, henceforward and forever. Numerous terraces and pleasure-houses have been built in the place they stretch row after row along the banks of the sea, and rise one above another on the hill.
'tis true his body's found picked up this morning, just at sunrise, by two Dunleary fishermen, off Bullock. Justice Lowe has seen it and Spaight saw it too. I've just been speaking with him, not an hour ago, in Thomas Street. It lies at Ringsend and an inquest in the morning. And so on in Doctor Toole's manner, until he saw Dr.
Here, however, they knew better; and though the lawyer quizzed the doctor for never having another patient than the house dog, all of whose arteries he had tied in the course of the winter for practice and the doctor retorted as heavily, by showing that the lawyer's practice had been other than beneficial to those for whom he was concerned his one client being found guilty, mainly through his ingenious defence of him; yet they never showed any, the slightest irritation on the contrary, such little playful badinage ever led to some friendly passages of taking wine together, or in arrangements for a party to the "Dargle," or "Dunleary;" and thus went on the entire party, the young ladies darting an occasion slight at their elders, who certainly returned the fire, often with advantage; all uniting now and then, however, in one common cause, an attack of the whole line upon Mrs.
Word Of The Day