Note 67 — PREFACE.

See some of Right Hon. John Philpot Curran’s Verses preserved in his Life by his son William Henry Curran—a work full of interest with respect to matter, and full of beauty with respect to style. The account given in its pages, of the convivial and intellectual meetings of “the Monks of the Screw” at the Priory (Mr. Curran’s villa) forms a brilliant but painful contrast to other orgies now celebrated in Dublin, which alas! are neither social nor intellectual!