But I have not yet abandoned the hope that I may be permitted to grapple with that considerable armful of work, which had been long marked out for my old age; the question of my recovering sight being for the present in abeyance.
Morley shares his hope to continue working on significant projects despite his current health challenges.
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There lay Ireland,—squalid, dismal, sullen, dull, expectant, sunk deep in hostile intent.
How should we look in the face of the civilised world if we had so turned our back upon our duty and sovereign task?
If the idea was the direct gift of heaven, the policy was due to the sagacity and mother-wit of the great ecclesiastical statesmen.
But the Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die.
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