The Dublin University Magazine, Volume 42William Curry, Jun., and Company, 1853 |
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... eyes of a deer . After groping a little farther in that di- rection , the eyes again appeared , and as they began to approach , the distance between them seemed gradually to increase , like the lamps of a travelling - carriage to a ...
... eyes of a deer . After groping a little farther in that di- rection , the eyes again appeared , and as they began to approach , the distance between them seemed gradually to increase , like the lamps of a travelling - carriage to a ...
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... eyes presented themselves , glancing about in several directions . I fired a chance shot at one , which fortunately brought the animal down on his tracks : hearing him struggling on the ground , I feared , by the sound , that he was not ...
... eyes presented themselves , glancing about in several directions . I fired a chance shot at one , which fortunately brought the animal down on his tracks : hearing him struggling on the ground , I feared , by the sound , that he was not ...
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... eyes rolling , I fired for the fourth time directly at the region of the heart , as I thought , but to my utter amazement up went his tail and down went his head , and with a speed that I thought him little capable of , he was upon me ...
... eyes rolling , I fired for the fourth time directly at the region of the heart , as I thought , but to my utter amazement up went his tail and down went his head , and with a speed that I thought him little capable of , he was upon me ...
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... eyes towards the crowded roofs , which he swept hastily with his telescope . This done , he sauntered carelessly back and disappeared . The grenadiers were soon followed by the line , and now , as far as my eye could carry , I beheld ...
... eyes towards the crowded roofs , which he swept hastily with his telescope . This done , he sauntered carelessly back and disappeared . The grenadiers were soon followed by the line , and now , as far as my eye could carry , I beheld ...
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... eye glances , And where thy footstep gleams ; In what ethereal dances , By what eternal streams ! " Our readers must ... eyes of the radiant girl ! And never a flake That the vapour can make , With the moon - tints of purple and pearl ...
... eye glances , And where thy footstep gleams ; In what ethereal dances , By what eternal streams ! " Our readers must ... eyes of the radiant girl ! And never a flake That the vapour can make , With the moon - tints of purple and pearl ...
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Page 95 - THE skies they were ashen and sober; The leaves they were crisped and sere, The leaves they were withering and sere; It was night in the lonesome October Of my most immemorial year ; It was hard by the dim lake of Auber, In the misty mid region of Weir: It was down by the dank tarn of Auber, In the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir.
Page 93 - How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, in the icy air of night ! while the stars, that over-sprinkle all the heavens, seem to twinkle with a crystalline delight ; keeping time, time, time, in a sort of Runic rhyme, to the tintinnabulation that so musically wells from the bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, from the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.
Page 617 - I REQUIRE and charge you both, as ye will answer at the dreadful day of judgment when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed, that if either of you know any impediment, why ye may not be lawfully joined together in Matrimony, ye do now confess it. For be ye well assured, that so many as are coupled together otherwise than God's Word doth allow are not joined together by God; neither is their Matrimony lawful.
Page 96 - Gaily bedight, A gallant knight, In sunshine and in shadow, Had journeyed long, Singing a song, In search of Eldorado. But he grew old — This knight so bold — And o'er his heart a shadow Fell as he found No spot of ground That looked like Eldorado. And, as his strength Failed him at length, He met a pilgrim shadow — "Shadow," said he, "Where can it be — This land of Eldorado?" "Over the Mountains Of the Moon, Down the Valley of the Shadow, Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, — "If you...
Page 93 - Nor the demons down under the sea, Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful Annabel Lee. For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling— my darling— my life and my bride, In the sepulchre there by the sea, In her tomb by the sounding sea.
Page 22 - BY THE rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof: for there they that carried us away captive required of us a song ; And they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, " Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Page 451 - One cannot say he wanted wit, but rather that he was frugal of it. In his works you find little to retrench or alter. Wit, and language, and humour also in some measure, we had before him ; but something of art was wanting to the drama till he came.
Page 96 - I could kneel all night in prayer, To heal your many ills! And one . . . beamy smile from you Would float like light between My toils and me, my own, my true, My Dark Rosaleen! My fond Rosaleen! Would give me life and soul anew, A second life, a soul anew, My Dark Rosaleen!
Page 93 - Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells.' How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars, that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...
Page 451 - But he has done his robberies so openly, that one may see he fears not to be taxed by any law. He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.