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Did you ever study De la Roche's incarnation of Mediaeval Art in his Hemicycle, that long saintly robe with its still and serious folds, that fair dreamy face, those upturned eyes, "the homes of silent prayer," the contemplative repose? It is truly an exquisite idealization; yet there is something wanting. I believe the piety of those days was rather a passion than a sentiment.
In them, shall we not have a Madonna whose 'eyes are homes of silent prayer? a copy of De la Roche's 'Christ, so touching in its sad and noble serenity? or some bust or engraving of poet or hero, which shall be to us as a biography, never failing to stimulate us in the best direction?
Nor let us forget Pyrrhic victory, Parthian dart, and Homeric laughter; quos deus vult and nil de mortuis; Sturm und Drang; masterly inactivity, unctuous rectitude, mute inglorious Miltons, and damned good-natured friends; the sword of Damocles, the thin edge of the wedge, the long arm of coincidence, and the soul of goodness in things evil; Hobson's choice, Frankenstein's monster, Macaulay's schoolboy, Lord Burleigh's nod, Sir Boyle Roche's bird, Mahomed's coffin, and Davy Jones's locker.
I suppose if they gave me a holiday I should spend it in St. Petersburg. That's where we ought to send our best men just now. So long, Sir Henry." They shook hands once more. Roche's face was set in grim lines. They were both silent for a moment. It was the farewell of men whose eyes are fixed upon the great things. "Good luck to you!"
'I was once with the Irish brigade, Roche's, said the recruiter, sneering, 'trying if I could get any likely fellows among the few countrymen of yours that are in the brigade, and there was scarcely one of them that was not descended from the kings of Ireland. 'Sir, said I, 'king or not, I am a gentleman, as you can see.
It was Roche's embrocation that did her more good than anything. I told Moore that, and he got some. When Dottie got better the doctor said we ought to take her to the seaside, but that was out of the question, mother said." "Why?" asked Mrs Fotheringham. "Because it would have cost so much," answered Iris.
"Moore told me so; and I know exactly what to ask for a bottle of Roche's embrocation I've often got it before." Mrs Moore took a bottle from under her shawl and looked at it. "I did bring the bottle with me," she said hesitatingly, "so as there shouldn't be no mistake." "All right," said Iris, taking it from her and nodding cheerfully; "I won't be long, I can run very fast."
"I will give you a very heavy and rich purple brocade." "Jewels?" "Of course. Mrs. Randolph lets us have whatever we want." "That will do!" said Theresa, clapping her hands softly. "I am made up. What are you going to do with Frederica?" "She has a great part. She must be Marie Antoinette going from the revolutionary tribunal." "De la Roche's picture!" said Theresa.
Immediately following the failure of La Roche's second expedition, Pierre Chauvin of Honfleur secured a monopoly which covered the Laurentian fur trade for ten years. The condition was that he should convey to Canada fifty colonists a year throughout the full period of his grant. So far from carrying out this agreement either in spirit or letter, he shirked it without compunction.
Lord Roberts' Forty-one Years in India, i. 94. Ibid. p. 431. Contemporary Review, May 1897. Article by William O'Brien, 'Was Fenianism ever Formidable? Roche's Life of John Boyle O'Reilly, with introduction by Cardinal Gibbons. Lecky's criticism I did not know that Mr. O'Reilly had ever been a Fenian or a British soldier, or that he had tried to seduce other soldiers from their allegiance.
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