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Page 48
... island in the Shannon , who was the great - grand- father of the present Sir Dennis , she having left two sons by each of her husbands , from the younger of whom respectively the present families were de- scended . There was a mystery ...
... island in the Shannon , who was the great - grand- father of the present Sir Dennis , she having left two sons by each of her husbands , from the younger of whom respectively the present families were de- scended . There was a mystery ...
Page 76
... island , to which we have given the name of Inniscarra , extending in a north - westerly and south - easterly direction near a quarter of a mile on either side it , beyond a sound , about a mile out to sea . On the highest point of it ...
... island , to which we have given the name of Inniscarra , extending in a north - westerly and south - easterly direction near a quarter of a mile on either side it , beyond a sound , about a mile out to sea . On the highest point of it ...
Page 77
... island and some other small property in the county from her . There were a few peculiarities belonging to the locality of the island and rectory which it is necessary to refer to , as being connected with the incidents of the tale ...
... island and some other small property in the county from her . There were a few peculiarities belonging to the locality of the island and rectory which it is necessary to refer to , as being connected with the incidents of the tale ...
Page 78
... island , consequently exposed to the full action of the ocean , there was a high pro- montory jutting out into the sea , called Bally- howley Point . On this there had stood , some seventeen years previously to the time our tale opens ...
... island , consequently exposed to the full action of the ocean , there was a high pro- montory jutting out into the sea , called Bally- howley Point . On this there had stood , some seventeen years previously to the time our tale opens ...
Page 79
... island , and was prepared for the visit . But there were more heinous charges laid at the door of old Master Peter than smuggling . It was alleged that he had often on stormy nights exhibited a light from his upper window , to lure in ...
... island , and was prepared for the visit . But there were more heinous charges laid at the door of old Master Peter than smuggling . It was alleged that he had often on stormy nights exhibited a light from his upper window , to lure in ...
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Page 223 - Every thing that heard him play, Even the billows of the sea, Hung their heads, and then lay by. In sweet music is such art, Killing care and grief of heart Fall asleep, or hearing, die.
Page 76 - If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work; But when they seldom come, they wish'd for come, And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.
Page 45 - The other turns to a mirth-moving jest, Which his fair tongue, conceit's expositor, Delivers in such apt and gracious words That aged ears play truant at his tales And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.
Page 128 - Alas ! the love of women ! it is known To be a lovely and a fearful thing ; For all of theirs upon that die is thrown, And if 'tis lost, life hath no more to bring To them but mockeries of the past alone...
Page 90 - If by your art, my dearest father, you have Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them : The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch, But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek, Dashes the fire out.
Page 121 - Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
Page 286 - Claudio; and I quake, Lest thou a feverous life shouldst entertain, And six or seven winters more respect Than a perpetual honour. Dar'st thou die ? The sense of death is most in apprehension ; And the poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.
Page 4 - Behold, thou hast made my days as it were a span long : and mine age is even as nothing in respect of thee ; and verily every man living is altogether vanity.
Page 223 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
Page 27 - But, see, his face is black, and full of blood ; His eyeballs further out than when he lived, Staring full ghastly like a strangled man ; His hair upreared, his nostrils stretched with struggling ; His hands abroad displayed, as one that grasped And tugged for life, and was by strength subdued.