Samuel Lover

And with my advice, faith I wish you'd take me.

Samuel Lover (February 24, 1797 – July 6, 1868) was an Irish songwriter, composer, novelist, as well as a painter of portraits, chiefly miniatures. He was the grandfather of Victor Herbert.

Quotes

• 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.

• 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).

• Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.
  • Rory O' More, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• For dhrames always go by conthraries, my dear.
  • Rory O' More, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• "That 's eight times to-day that you 've kissed me before."
  "Then here goes another," says he, "to make sure,
  For there 's luck in odd numbers," says Rory O'More.
  • Rory O' More, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• As she sat in the low-backed car
  The man at the turn-pike bar
  Never asked for the toll
  But just rubbed his auld poll
  And looked after the low-backed car.
  • The low-backed Car, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• Sure my love is all crost
  Like a bud in the frost
  And there's no use at all in my going to bed,
  For 't is dhrames and not slape that comes into my head!
  • Molly Carew, 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).

• Sure the shovel and tongs
  To each other belongs.
  • Widow Machree, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

External links

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• Works by Samuel Lover at Project Gutenberg