The Dublin University Magazine, Volume 89William Curry, Jun., and Company, 1877 |
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Page 51
... Poor innocent little Rachel ! She felt suddenly quenched , and vaguely uneasy that she had done something wrong . She was very young , and very unlearned in the " tricks and the manners " of this wicked world , but she was as free from ...
... Poor innocent little Rachel ! She felt suddenly quenched , and vaguely uneasy that she had done something wrong . She was very young , and very unlearned in the " tricks and the manners " of this wicked world , but she was as free from ...
Page 52
... poor old fellow . " The young man , you see , thought the dog was Miss Scott's , and he hoped that the pretty figure in the white dress would come in while he was petting her pet . Miss 52 [ Jan.- The Shadow on the Wall .
... poor old fellow . " The young man , you see , thought the dog was Miss Scott's , and he hoped that the pretty figure in the white dress would come in while he was petting her pet . Miss 52 [ Jan.- The Shadow on the Wall .
Page 54
... poor dress ! and a dog flew at me , and I was frightened . Do , Granny , give me a needle and thread ; what will aunt Conway say if I go back to her in this state ? " So she got the needle and thread , and Harry still sat on watching ...
... poor dress ! and a dog flew at me , and I was frightened . Do , Granny , give me a needle and thread ; what will aunt Conway say if I go back to her in this state ? " So she got the needle and thread , and Harry still sat on watching ...
Page 56
... poor little thing . He does not look like a man who would trifle with a girl's affections . He must be true with that smile , and those eyes ! How strange that I never heard his mother was dead . Poor Henry ! how long ago it is since we ...
... poor little thing . He does not look like a man who would trifle with a girl's affections . He must be true with that smile , and those eyes ! How strange that I never heard his mother was dead . Poor Henry ! how long ago it is since we ...
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... poor girl ; she was only very weak , and fairly bewitched by the tempter with the dark brown eyes . It was very pleasant for him to see the soft light coming into her face at his approach , and to watch how , one by one , her doubts and ...
... poor girl ; she was only very weak , and fairly bewitched by the tempter with the dark brown eyes . It was very pleasant for him to see the soft light coming into her face at his approach , and to watch how , one by one , her doubts and ...
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Page 772 - Full fathom five thy father lies, Of his bones are coral made : Those are pearls that were his eyes, Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea change, Into something rich and strange.
Page 613 - SLOW sinks, more lovely ere his race be run, ^ Along Morea's hills the setting sun ; Not, as in Northern climes, obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light ! O'er the hushed deep the yellow beam he throws, Gilds the green wave, that trembles as it glows.
Page 102 - Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met, or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Page 171 - And when this song is sung and past, My lute, be still, for I have done. As to be heard where ear is none, As lead to grave in marble stone, My Song may pierce her heart as soon. Should we then sigh, or sing, or moan? No, no, my lute, for I have done.
Page 775 - Throughout this varied and eternal world Soul is the only element: the block That for uncounted ages has remained The moveless pillar of a mountain's weight Is active, living spirit. Every grain Is sentient both in unity and part, And the minutest atom comprehends A world of loves and hatreds...
Page 775 - Hold thou the good : define it well : For fear divine Philosophy Should push beyond her mark, and be Procuress to the Lords of Hell.
Page 560 - Accurate and minute measurement seems to the nonscientific imagination, a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something new. But nearly all the grandest discoveries of science have been but the rewards of accurate measurement and patient long-continued labour in the minute sifting of numerical results.
Page 178 - The old man told him that he worshipped the fire only, and acknowledged no other god. At which answer Abraham grew so zealously angry, that he thrust the old man out of his tent, and exposed him to all the evils of the night, and an unguarded condition. When the old man was gone, God called to Abraham, and asked him where the stranger was : he replied, I thrust him away because he did not worship thee.
Page 772 - The words bard and inspiration, which seem so cold and affected when applied to other modern writers, have a perfect propriety when applied to him. He was not an author, but a bard. His poetry seems not to have been an art, but an inspiration.
Page 178 - When Abraham sat at his tent door, according to his custom, waiting to entertain strangers, he espied an old man, stooping and leaning on his staff, weary with age and travel, coming towards him, who was an hundred years of age.