Sifter many fruith's
Searches for an Editin

of this sorte, it sharply The merest thance,

found in a

Library by the above Lady, of the Strai Saughties of the Sate liatin

DERMODY.

Sketched by Rob Ker Porter from a painting by Mr C. Allingham.

THE

LIFE

OF

THOMAS DERMODY:

INTERSPERSED WITH PIECES OF

Original Poetry,

MANY EXHIBITING

UNEXAMPLED PREMATURITY

OF

GENUINE POETICAL TALENT;

AND CONTAINING A SERIES OF

CORRESPONDENCE

WITH

SEVERAL EMINENT CHARACTERS.

BY

JAMES GRANT RAYMOND,

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR WILLIAM MILLER,ALBEMARLE STREET;
AND J. ARCHER AND M. MAHON, DUBLIN.

THE

LIFE OF DERMODY.

"He who such polish'd lines so well could form,
Was Passion's slave, was Indiscretion's child:
Now earth-enamour'd, grov'ling with the worm;
Now seraph-plum'd, the wonderful, the wild."

DERMODY'S Enthusiast.