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Samuel Lover
14 quotes
“For a ballad's a thing you expect to find lies in.”
Samuel Lover (1797–1868) said by 1868 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Paddy Blake's Echo; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 56.
“A baby was sleeping, Its mother was weeping, For her husband was far on the wild-raging sea.”
Samuel Lover (1797–1868) said by 1868 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Angel's Whisper, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.”
Samuel Lover (1797–1868) said by 1868 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Rory O' More, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“For dhrames always go by conthraries, my dear.”
Samuel Lover (1797–1868) said by 1868 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Rory O' More, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“That 's eight times to-day that you 've kissed me before." "Then here goes another," says he, "to make sure, For there 's luck in odd numbers," says Rory O'More.”
Samuel Lover (1797–1868) said by 1868 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Rory O' More, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“As she sat in the low-backed car The man at the turn-pike bar Never asked for the toll But just rubbed his auld poll And looked after the low-backed car.”
Samuel Lover (1797–1868) said by 1868 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The low-backed Car, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Sure my love is all crost Like a bud in the frost And there's no use at all in my going to bed, For 't is dhrames and not slape that comes into my head!”
Samuel Lover (1797–1868) said by 1868 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Molly Carew, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“And with my advice, faith I wish you'd take me.”
Samuel Lover (1797–1868) said by 1868 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Widow Machree, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Sure the shovel and tongs To each other belongs.”
Samuel Lover (1797–1868) said by 1868 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Widow Machree, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“A baby was sleeping, Its mother was weeping.”
Samuel Lover (1797–1868) said by 1868 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Reproof on her lips, but a smile in her eye.”
Samuel Lover (1797–1868) said by 1868 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“For drames always go by _conthraries_, my dear.”
Samuel Lover (1797–1868) said by 1868 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Then here goes another," says he, "to make sure, For there 's luck in odd numbers," says Rory O'More.”
Samuel Lover (1797–1868) said by 1868 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell.”
Samuel Lover (1797–1868) said by 1868 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source