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Harry Lorrequer, by Charles James Lever, Edited and Arranged by David Widger

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Title: Quotes and Images From The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer

Author: Charles James Lever
Edited and Arranged by David Widger

Release Date: August 30, 2004 [EBook #7548]
[Last updated on February 16, 2007]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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Produced by David Widger

QUOTES AND IMAGES FROM HARRY LORREQUER

THE CONFESSIONS OF HARRY LORREQUER

[By Charles James Lever (1806-1872)]

Dublin

MDCCCXXXIX.

Though the title page has no author's name inscribed, this work is
generally attributed to Charles James Lever. Harry Lorrequer was a young
officer in a British regiment stationed in Ireland in the early 1800's.
The 1839 First Edition had pages too stained and friable for scanning
--so a colleague, Mary Munarin, helped prepare this eBook for Project
Gutenberg in the old fashioned way--she typed it! This story will be a
delight to any readers with a few drops of Irish blood (or a wee drop of
the Old Bushmills) in their veins.

A crowd is a mob, if composed even of bishops

And some did pray--who never prayed before

Annoyance of her vulgar loquacity

Enjoy the name without the gain

Enough is as good as a feast

Fighting like devils for conciliation

Has but one fault, but that fault is a grand one

Hating each other for the love of God

He was very much disguised in drink

How ingenious is self-deception

My English proves me Irish

Mistaking zeal for inclination

Mistaking your abstraction for attention

Rather a dabbler in the "ologies"

The tone of assumed compassion

That "to stand was to fall,"

That land of punch, priests, and potatoes

What will not habit accomplish

"We talked of pipe-clay regulation caps--
Long twenty-fours--short culverins and mortars--
Condemn'd the 'Horse Guards' for a set of raps,
And cursed our fate at being in such quarters.
Some smoked