The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, Volume 78W. Curry, jun., and Company, 1871 |
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... give him no credit for a foregone intent to write a history of Irish literature , and then an indus- trious collection of materials , and a weary succession of visits to the great libraries , to fit him for this task . He had visited ...
... give him no credit for a foregone intent to write a history of Irish literature , and then an indus- trious collection of materials , and a weary succession of visits to the great libraries , to fit him for this task . He had visited ...
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... give information of the past condition of a locality , whether it be city , town , or country , or to give a view of the bygone state of literature of a pro- vincial country , or of any portion of it , are sure of never getting but a ...
... give information of the past condition of a locality , whether it be city , town , or country , or to give a view of the bygone state of literature of a pro- vincial country , or of any portion of it , are sure of never getting but a ...
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... give him one last glance of the inheritance to which he was born , before we take him to the miserable home that must be ours henceforth ? " " Not miserable , dear Hubert- not miserable when we are together ; and Lionel is too young to ...
... give him one last glance of the inheritance to which he was born , before we take him to the miserable home that must be ours henceforth ? " " Not miserable , dear Hubert- not miserable when we are together ; and Lionel is too young to ...
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... give an inheritance of sin and shame to our unconscious child ? What matters it that I clung to him in agony as determination darkened on his brow , and told him that the very thought of such guilt was clouding his features even then ...
... give an inheritance of sin and shame to our unconscious child ? What matters it that I clung to him in agony as determination darkened on his brow , and told him that the very thought of such guilt was clouding his features even then ...
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... Twitter of grey tiny wren . All harsh chords that give offence To poetic ear and sense Are exiled for ever hence . Pleasures without after - pain In my green dominion reign 1871. ] 41 The Voice of Summer . THE VOICE OF SUMMER. ...
... Twitter of grey tiny wren . All harsh chords that give offence To poetic ear and sense Are exiled for ever hence . Pleasures without after - pain In my green dominion reign 1871. ] 41 The Voice of Summer . THE VOICE OF SUMMER. ...
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Page 492 - And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue ; she alone is free. She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her.
Page 230 - When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn, That ten day-labourers could not end; Then lies him down, the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength; And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.
Page 616 - And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river's side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it. And when she had opened it, she saw the child and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him and said, this is one of the Hebrews
Page 554 - Every year thousands undergo this operation ; and the French Ambassador says pleasantly that they take the smallpox here by way of diversion, as they take the waters in other countries. There is no example of any one...
Page 615 - And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein ; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.
Page 629 - I have but one request to ask at my departure from this world - it is the charity of its silence ! Let no man write my epitaph: for as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them.
Page 628 - I shall not forbear to vindicate my character and motives from your aspersions ; and, as a man to whom fame is dearer than life, I will make the last use of that life in doing justice to that reputation which is to live after me, and which is the only legacy I can leave to those I honor and love, and for whom I am proud to perish.
Page 525 - ... country has been conferred by successive monarchs of England upon an English colony, composed of three sets of English adventurers who poured into this country at the termination of three successive rebellions. Confiscation is their common title ; and from their first settlement they have been hemmed in on every side by the old inhabitants of the island, brooding over their discontents in sullen indignation.
Page 282 - ... been so base as to instigate the insurgents to rob the clergy of their tithes, not in order to alleviate the distresses of the tenantry, but that they might add the clergy's share to the cruel rack-rents they already paid. The poor people of Munster lived in a more abject state of poverty than human nature could be supposed equal to bear.
Page 281 - Consider the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither do they spin: yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.