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LIFE OF CHARLES HALIUAT. ix
He was accordingly obliged to moderate his ardour, but
he still was enabled to give some of his leisure to his
favourite pursuits.
During the years 1813, 1814, and 1815 his poetical effu- HU farewell
f i i to the Muse*.
sions were not (infrequent as appears by his manuscript
collection. But they grew fewer and fewer as business
called his thoughts to less graceful occupations. And in
1 8 Ks he would seem to have bade a final farewell to the Muses.
To Mrs. Hetherington, who had asked him in her "
poeti-
"
cal epistle
for a drawing for her screen, he wrote in reply
dated " Arran-quay, 25th of October, 1818 :"
" My portefeuille of all bereft,
And not one drawing was there left,
When commerce changed my mode of life
From one of peace to one of strife ;
Changed all the labour to the pen,
And drove me to the haunts of men ;
And little time have I, I trow,
For poetry or painting now,
My brushes all are turned to quills,
And nothing can I draw but bills."
About the year 1834, being desirous of a more agreeable
abode than his house at Arran-quay, he moved out to
Monkstown, and took a lease of a pretty villa called "
Fairy
Land," adjacent to the beautiful plot of ground which he
afterwards purchased. Here he passed a pleasant life in-
termingling society and business. He drew, he played the
violin, he rode to hounds. He also saw company, but the
society
he cultivated was that of a few intellectual and
social men rather than an interchange of costly banquets.
Amongst the intellectual few were Dr. Robert James Graves,
that most distinguished physician afterwards of European
reputation, and Maziere Brady, eventually Lord Chancellor
of Ireland.
Dr. Graves was joint editor with Daniel Haliday, M.D.,
(a younger brother of Mr. Haliday's), of a medical journal,
Daniel Haliday living in Paris and communicating French
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