The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, Volume 89W. Curry, jun., and Company, 1877 |
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... True Cross , " as many Christians thought it , Was cut , and chipped , and pared away to nothing , one would think ; A piece was carried off by every devotee that sought it , And yet from primal shape and size it never seemed to shrink ...
... True Cross , " as many Christians thought it , Was cut , and chipped , and pared away to nothing , one would think ; A piece was carried off by every devotee that sought it , And yet from primal shape and size it never seemed to shrink ...
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... True Cross , " as many Christians thought it , Was cut , and chipped , and pared away to nothing , one would think ; A piece was carried off by every devotee that sought it , And yet from primal shape and size it never seemed to shrink ...
... True Cross , " as many Christians thought it , Was cut , and chipped , and pared away to nothing , one would think ; A piece was carried off by every devotee that sought it , And yet from primal shape and size it never seemed to shrink ...
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... true , for she would have cried her pretty eyes out , like a little goose as she was . CHAPTER II . A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays , And confident to - morrows . WORDSWORTH . MISS RUSSEL was again sitting alone the following ...
... true , for she would have cried her pretty eyes out , like a little goose as she was . CHAPTER II . A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays , And confident to - morrows . WORDSWORTH . MISS RUSSEL was again sitting alone the following ...
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... 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 met . " Yes ; it was a very long time ; but the firelight of the past burns brightly for some - I ...
... 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 met . " Yes ; it was a very long time ; but the firelight of the past burns brightly for some - I ...
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... true beyond all question were it not for that undefined distrust of him which she could not conquer . But still , he never went beyond a certain point . He would tell her that he was miserable away from her ; that of all the women he ...
... true beyond all question were it not for that undefined distrust of him which she could not conquer . But still , he never went beyond a certain point . He would tell her that he was miserable away from her ; that of all the women he ...
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Page 760 - 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 764 - Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance, — These are the seals of that most firm assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction's strength ; And if, with infirm hand, Eternity, Mother of many acts and hours, should free The serpent that would clasp her with his length, These are the spells by which to re-assume An empire o'er the disentangled Doom.
Page 764 - To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy Power, which seems omnipotent; To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates; Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent; This, like thy glory, Titan, is to be Good, great and joyous, beautiful and free; This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory.
Page 98 - 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 763 - 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 763 - 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 100 - The poetic genius of my country found me, as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha, at the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over me. She bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my native soil, in my native tongue. I tuned my wild, artless notes, as she inspired.
Page 228 - ... movemur enim nescio quo pacto locis ipsis, in quibus eorum, quos diligimus aut admiramur, adsunt vestigia.
Page 765 - Man, one harmonious soul of many a soul, Whose nature is its own divine control, Where all things flow to all, as rivers to the sea...
Page 40 - NOTES of a COURSE of SEVEN LECTURES On ELECTRICAL PHENOMENA and THEORIES, delivered at the Royal Institution AD 1870.