The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, Volume 78W. Curry, jun., and Company, 1871 |
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Page 88
... position of affairs . Bonaparte was once more the mas- ter of Italy , and numerous Italian eyes were turned hopefully towards him . But Foscolo had no faith in him ; and his letter , dated 17th March , 1798 , proves it . This letter ...
... position of affairs . Bonaparte was once more the mas- ter of Italy , and numerous Italian eyes were turned hopefully towards him . But Foscolo had no faith in him ; and his letter , dated 17th March , 1798 , proves it . This letter ...
Page 93
... position , but he had incurred debts which he did not know how to meet ; a not uncommon position with him , by the way . The trifling compensation that had been made to him , had scarcely been enough to defray the cost of his black ...
... position , but he had incurred debts which he did not know how to meet ; a not uncommon position with him , by the way . The trifling compensation that had been made to him , had scarcely been enough to defray the cost of his black ...
Page 97
... position , however , was by no means as black as he described it to his sister . He was not left without resources and without prospects for the future , even in the midst of his difficulties . He contributed to the " Quarterly " and ...
... position , however , was by no means as black as he described it to his sister . He was not left without resources and without prospects for the future , even in the midst of his difficulties . He contributed to the " Quarterly " and ...
Page 106
... position , that he could just peer over the wall , and thus awaited what might occur . It was by no means a pleasant situa- tion : the night was bitterly cold , and his toes and fingers soon ached intensely . His body , too , shivered ...
... position , that he could just peer over the wall , and thus awaited what might occur . It was by no means a pleasant situa- tion : the night was bitterly cold , and his toes and fingers soon ached intensely . His body , too , shivered ...
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... position of affairs , and was still more astonished when my aunt burst suddenly into tears , and rushed , sobbing , from the room . " What does all this mean ? " he asked . " It means , " replied I , " that the day for my marriage with ...
... position of affairs , and was still more astonished when my aunt burst suddenly into tears , and rushed , sobbing , from the room . " What does all this mean ? " he asked . " It means , " replied I , " that the day for my marriage with ...
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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.