Сэмюэл Лавер — ирландский поэт-песенник, композитор, романист и художник-портретист. Дед композитора и дирижёра Виктора Херберта. Wikipedia
“Sure the shovel and tongs
To each other belongs.”
Widow Machree, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.”
Rory O' More, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“And with my advice, faith I wish you'd take me.”
Widow Machree, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“For a ballad's a thing you expect to find lies in.”
Paddy Blake's Echo; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 56.
“For dhrames always go by conthraries, my dear.”
Rory O' More, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
The low-backed Car, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Rory O' More, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“A baby was sleeping,
Its mother was weeping,
For her husband was far on the wild-raging sea.”
The Angel's Whisper, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Molly Carew, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).