The Dublin University Magazine, Volume 89William Curry, Jun., and Company, 1877 |
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... woman so situated , especially when her means are suf- ficient to make her quite indepen- dent , far happier what may be called " alone in the world , " than if she had married , perhaps without much affection for her husband , but only ...
... woman so situated , especially when her means are suf- ficient to make her quite indepen- dent , far happier what may be called " alone in the world , " than if she had married , perhaps without much affection for her husband , but only ...
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... woman they meet , and as I do not want my little pet to have her head turned , I tell her not to believe all the things they will say to her . This young man appears to have behaved like a gentleman ; still you must not show any wish to ...
... woman they meet , and as I do not want my little pet to have her head turned , I tell her not to believe all the things they will say to her . This young man appears to have behaved like a gentleman ; still you must not show any wish to ...
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... woman who'd bother a fellow , or be in the way . A very nice - looking woman , I think . By Jove I've hit it ! I'll call to ask for the dog . " By the above speech it will be seen that Rachel's hero was not half so wise as he thought ...
... woman who'd bother a fellow , or be in the way . A very nice - looking woman , I think . By Jove I've hit it ! I'll call to ask for the dog . " By the above speech it will be seen that Rachel's hero was not half so wise as he thought ...
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... woman's company- " he smiled when she called herself an old woman , and Rachel said , " nonsense , Granny ! " - " will not bore you , you might come and play for me . " Rachel had a vague idea that she might perhaps in some way take ...
... woman's company- " he smiled when she called herself an old woman , and Rachel said , " nonsense , Granny ! " - " will not bore you , you might come and play for me . " Rachel had a vague idea that she might perhaps in some way take ...
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... woman , kissed Rachel at once , and told her that she was charmed to see her , and the girls shook hands with her , and wondered how it was that she was so pretty , and stylish looking when she had always lived in the country . With ...
... woman , kissed Rachel at once , and told her that she was charmed to see her , and the girls shook hands with her , and wondered how it was that she was so pretty , and stylish looking when she had always lived in the country . With ...
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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.