Barallaghan, or The deipnosophists

by Edward Vaughan Kenealy

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1845 ...conceits and schoolman gallantry. He makes love in a pedant's gown, and kneels before his mistress with his pen in one hand and his tablets in the other. He is more engaged in weighing longs and shorts than in contemplrting the charms of the lady; and where he should be ohserving her smiles, he is only looking for an appropriate spondee. Take the following specimen of his love-songs; it is one of the best of the fatale fuit mihi Ut morerer ante mortem; Cur fatale non item fuit, Ut viverem ante vitam? Sed si non valet hoc fato Fieri, ut ante vitam Fortasse net, et erit Post vivere mortem. They are all in this style. Scaliger prided himself on his classic taste! LVIII, I am in love with Mary Queen of Scots! She is the Morning Star of History. So exquisite was her beauty, that once, carrying the pyx in the procession of the host, at Paris, a woman, struck by the enchantments of her figure and features, burst through the surrounding crowd anxious to touch her garment, to convince herself that she was not an angel from the skies. It is related of Hume, that when last in France, the principal of the Scots College placed in his hands some manuscripts in the handwriting of Mary, and at the same instant asked him why he had affected to write her character without having previously consulted these memorials? Hume made no reply; but taking up the papers through curiosity he looked over them for some minutes, and so affected was he by their pathetic eloquence, that he suddenly burst into tears. I have forgiven David many of his errors for this noble trait of sensibility. But Buchanan, who, fed by her bounty and advanced by her largesses, afterwards basely libelled her character, I can never pardon. Ingratitude is so foul a crime, that the vilest crimina...

74 pages, Paperback

First published September 27, 2015

About the author

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Edward Vaughan Hyde Kenealy (2 July 1819 – 16 April 1880) was an Irish barrister and writer. He is best remembered as counsel for the Tichborne claimant[1] and the eccentric and disturbed conduct of the trial that led to his ruin.

Kenealy suffered from diabetes and an erratic temperament has sometimes been attributed to poor control of the symptoms.[2] In 1850 he was sentenced to one month imprisonment for punishing his six-year-old illegitimate son with undue severity. He married Elizabeth Nicklin of Tipton, Staffordshire in 1851 and they had eleven children,[2] including novelist Arabella Kenealy (1864–1938). The Kenealy family lived in Portslade, East Sussex, from 1852 until 1874. Edward Kenealy commuted to London and Oxford for his law practice but returned at weekends and other times to be with his family.[3][4]

In 1850, he published an eccentric poem inspired by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Goethe, a New Pantomime.[5] He also published a large amount of poetry in journals such as Fraser's Magazine. He published translations from Latin, Greek, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Irish, Persian, Arabic, Hindustani and Bengali. It is unlikely that he was fluent in all these languages.

In 1866, Kenealy wrote The Book of God: the Apocalypse of Adam-Oannes, an unorthodox theological work in which he claimed that he was the "twelfth messenger of God", descended from Jesus Christ and Genghis Khan.[2]

He also published a more conventional biography of Edward Wortley Montagu in 1869.[2]

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