The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, Volume 78W. Curry, jun., and Company, 1871 |
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... knew the despairing remorse which he had resolutely buried under the false feverish excitement of the life that he ... knew of the world , I knew something of the utter wretchedness of a gambler's life , and what I knew , I had mostly ...
... knew the despairing remorse which he had resolutely buried under the false feverish excitement of the life that he ... knew of the world , I knew something of the utter wretchedness of a gambler's life , and what I knew , I had mostly ...
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... knew him well , said that his love and reverence for them was more like the love and reverence of an innocent child than a young man of the world . Bad companions led him astray , and play was the temptation to which he yielded . Night ...
... knew him well , said that his love and reverence for them was more like the love and reverence of an innocent child than a young man of the world . Bad companions led him astray , and play was the temptation to which he yielded . Night ...
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... knew Hubert . It had impressed him deeply at the time , and it drew many tears from me as he spoke of it . I had often thought of that boy's fate as I gazed on my little Lionel . I had thought that even so had his mother watched and ...
... knew Hubert . It had impressed him deeply at the time , and it drew many tears from me as he spoke of it . I had often thought of that boy's fate as I gazed on my little Lionel . I had thought that even so had his mother watched and ...
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... knew that Hubert had promised to meet them in Germany , before Christmas . After their de- parture my anxiety was lessened for the time , and my interest was . soon claimed by an unexpected event which took place in our circle , IT has ...
... knew that Hubert had promised to meet them in Germany , before Christmas . After their de- parture my anxiety was lessened for the time , and my interest was . soon claimed by an unexpected event which took place in our circle , IT has ...
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... knew how to oppose her . She was his darling , and as self - willed as he was yielding . Lord Effingham was living in Paris , and Edith's appeal to him had been made by letter . She knew that he was her only guardian , and that his ...
... knew how to oppose her . She was his darling , and as self - willed as he was yielding . Lord Effingham was living in Paris , and Edith's appeal to him had been made by letter . She knew that he was her only guardian , and that his ...
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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.