however, than perhaps the public is aware of in the way of preparation
for an outbreak. But the capital resource of their policy was, to make
Mr O'Connell deeply sensible that they were watching him. The eye that
watched over Waterloo was upon him: for six months that eagle glance
has searched him and nailed him: and the result, as it is now
revealing itself, may at length be expressed in the two lines of
Wordsworth otherwise applied--
"The vacillating bondsman of the Pope
Shrinks from the verdict of that steadfast eye."
_Edinburgh: Printed by Ballantyne and Hughes, Paul's Work._
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End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No.
CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV., by Various
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