John Anster Biography
John Martin Anster (1793–1867) was born in Charleville, Co. Cork, and educated Trinity College Dublin in 1814. He converted from Catholicism to the Church of Ireland and was admitted to the bar in 1824. He contributed prose essays in the North British Review and 28 poems to the Amulet in 1826. Eventually he became Regius Professor of Civil Law at TCD, having held office as registrar of the Admiralty Court, from 1837.
In Blackwood's Magazine for June, 1820, he published fragments of a translation of Goethe’s Faust, and reprinted in England and America. Dr. Anster published the first part in1835 as Faust: A Dramatic Mystery. The second part appeared in 1864.
He was a contributor to the Dublin University Magazine between the years 1837-56.
Hail to thy hues! thou lovely flower,
Still shed around thy soft perfume,
Still smile amid the wint'ry hour,
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Oh, deem not, though her spirit hath defied
Scandal, and Scorn, the taunts of lying lips,
That Pride hath clouded it with stern eclipse:--
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Well! with what art we labour to deceive
Our hearts, and nurse vain phantasies of Hope,
And swelling thoughts, that have no certain scope,
What te ...
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And must I perish thus?--a nameless tomb
Where few shall weep:--some days of writhing pain,
Ere yet I sink:--some hopes that still remain,
Though ...
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