Samuel Lover
Samuel Lover
Samuel Loverwas an Irish songwriter, composer, novelist, and a painter of portraits, chiefly miniatures. He was the grandfather of Victor Herbert...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth24 February 1797
CountryIreland
matrimony shovels
Sure the shovel and tongs To each other belongs.
lying ballads
For a ballad's a thing you expect to find lies in.
mother baby sleep
A baby was sleeping, Its mother was weeping.
love romantic valentines-day
Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.
men hygiene literature
When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.
wise hard-times glitter
Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
sweet thinking ears
My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
lying mind ease
Too little is it considered, while we gaze on aristocratic beauty, how much good food, soft lying, warm wrapping, ease of mind, have to do with the attractions which command our admiration.