...famous battles. Some distance west, is the Magazine Fort, of which Dean Swift sarcastically wrote: " Behold! a proof of Irish sense; Here Irish wit is...nothing's left that's worth defence We build a magazine!" The Park has fine cricket and polo grounds, and reviews are held in the space known as " Fifteen Acres,"...

...been declared a lunatic he is said to have written the lines on the magazine in the Phcenix Park : Behold a proof of Irish sense, Here Irish wit is seen ! When nothing 's left that 's worth defence, We build a magazine ; but it is difficult to believe that he...

...stood, " His Majesty's house of the Phoenix," a powder magazine was constructed under George II. " Behold a proof of Irish sense, Here Irish wit is seen : When nothing's left that's worth defence They build a magazine." So wrote Swift in the very last of his bitter railings that was published,...

...alike requited ; Our God 's forgotten, and our soldier 's slighted. F. QUARLES. The Dublin Magazine BEHOLD a proof of Irish sense ! Here Irish wit is seen ! When nothing 's left that 's worth defence, We build a magazine ! J. SWIFT. The Walcheren Expedition LORD...

...laugh on, For thus I fall, and thus fell Phaeton." Thomas Sprat. ON THE BUILDING OF A POWDER MAGAZINE. Behold ! a proof of Irish sense ; Here Irish wit is...nothing's left that's worth defence, We build a magazine. Jonathan Swift. EUREKA ! " Friend Tom," says Ned, " I've viewed the world around ; Disinterestedness...

...Mediterranean. This prompted the New York Evening Post to quote Swift: Behold a proof of Irish sense, Where Irish wit is seen; When nothing's left that's worth defence, We build a Magazine.55 But though Jefferson now called for more force, he •was as determined as ever not to...

...for arms and stores, which was pointed out to him as he went abroad during his mental disease: — Behold a proof of Irish sense: Here Irish wit is seen; When nothing's left that's worth defence, They build a magazine! 3.09 and by stout old Johnson,* * Besides these famous books of Scott's and...

...share of this after-wisdom too. So at least thought Dean Swift, when he wrote his last epigram : — Behold a proof of Irish sense, Here Irish wit is seen : When nothing's left that's] worth defence, They build a magazine J I am wandering far from Sandro, his philosophy and his restaurant. It will...

...wrote ; Behold ! a proof of Irißj fenfe ! Here Irijh iuit is feen, When nothing's left, t/jat'i nuortb defence, We build a magazine. And then put up his pocket-book, laughing heartily at the conceit, and clinching it with, After tbe ßeeJ's ßolen, ß>ut tbe fiable door ; after which he never faid a fenfible...

...magazine for arms and stores, which was pointed out to him as he went abroad during his mental disease: Behold a proof of Irish sense: Here Irish wit is seen; When nothing's left that's worth defense, surgeon, later on a captain, is supposed to describe the countries he has visited, and the...