Engraved by Ja. Heath. from a Miniature by A.Plimer. THOMAS MOORE ESQ Published by Galignani, 18, Rue Vivienne, Paris. ZO THE WORKS OF THOMAS MOORE, ESQ. COMPREHENDING ALL HIS MELODIES, BALLADS, ETC. NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED WITHOUT THE ACCOMPANYING MUSIC. EMBELLISHED WITH A PORTRAIT, AND A SKETCH OF VOL. I. PARIS: PUBLISHED. BY GALIGNANI, AT THE FRENCH, ENGLISH, ITALIAN, GERMAN AND SPANISH 1819. MEMOIR OF. THOMAS MOORE, ESQ. THOMAS MOORE, Esq. the only son of Mr. Garret Moore, formerly a respectable merchant in Dublin, and who still resides there, was born May 28, 1780. He has two sisters; and his infantine days seem to have left the most agreeable impressions on his memory; for in an epistle to his eldest sister, dated November, 1803, and written from Norfolk in Virginia, he retraces with delight their childhood, and describes the endearments of home, with a sensibility as exquisite as that which breathes through the lines of Cowper, on receiving his mother's picture. He acquired the rudiments of an excellent education under the care of the late Mr. Samuel White, of Dublin, a gentleman extensively known and respected as the early tutor of Sheridan, and whose worth as an instructor has been justly commemorated in a sonnet addressed to him by his pupil, Mr. Moore, in a periodical miscellany entitled « Anthologia Hibernia. » He evinced such talent in early life as determined his father |