The Novice of Saint Dominick, Volume 4T. Hughes, 1823 - Irish fiction |
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... awakened popularity . A week had only elapsed from the pe- riod of Imogen's introduction at court , and that notoriety which even the secret am- bition of the Novice of St. Dominick had panted to possess was now all her own . EA That ...
... awakened popularity . A week had only elapsed from the pe- riod of Imogen's introduction at court , and that notoriety which even the secret am- bition of the Novice of St. Dominick had panted to possess was now all her own . EA That ...
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... awaken a thrill on its languid pulse , established every where the fame of her beauty . And the king ( to whom the duchess de Guise , in the kind policy of her friendship , had repeated many of those enthusiastic and rapturous ...
... awaken a thrill on its languid pulse , established every where the fame of her beauty . And the king ( to whom the duchess de Guise , in the kind policy of her friendship , had repeated many of those enthusiastic and rapturous ...
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... awaken their 66 66 66 energy . And what is praise , unheard by one in whose triumph only we can truly triumph ? and what is pleasure , if " the heart participates not in its illu- " sions ? " Often indeed , after the gay and dissi ...
... awaken their 66 66 66 energy . And what is praise , unheard by one in whose triumph only we can truly triumph ? and what is pleasure , if " the heart participates not in its illu- " sions ? " Often indeed , after the gay and dissi ...
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... awakened in thy soul a feeling more poignant , more extatic , more powerful , than all ambition , vanity , or pride , ever inspired in their warmest pa- roxysm of fruition ? The triumph of the Novice of St. Dominick was now , and now ...
... awakened in thy soul a feeling more poignant , more extatic , more powerful , than all ambition , vanity , or pride , ever inspired in their warmest pa- roxysm of fruition ? The triumph of the Novice of St. Dominick was now , and now ...
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... awakened by the unexpected ap- pearance of the duke de Beauvilliers , even more interesting , though less dazzling in his appearance , and more free , more the master of himself and of his actions , than when , amidst the sequestered ...
... awakened by the unexpected ap- pearance of the duke de Beauvilliers , even more interesting , though less dazzling in his appearance , and more free , more the master of himself and of his actions , than when , amidst the sequestered ...
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Page 227 - Thy sober Autumn fading into age, And pale concluding Winter comes at last, And shuts the scene. Ah ! whither now are fled Those dreams of greatness ? those unsolid hopes Of happiness ? those longings after fame ? Those restless cares ? those busy bustling days ? Those gay-spent, festive nights?
Page 292 - So, when this loose behaviour I throw off, And pay the debt I never promised, By how much better than my word I am, By so much shall I falsify men's hopes ; And, like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation, glittering o'er my fault, Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes Than that which hath no foil to set it off.
Page 227 - Summer's ardent strength. Thy sober autumn fading into age, And pale concluding Winter comes at last, And shuts the scene. Ah ! whither now are fled Those dreams of greatness ? those unsolid hopes Of happiness ? those longings after fame ? Those restless cares? those busy bustling days?
Page 173 - That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom...
Page 335 - ... powers, As on a boundless theatre, to run The great career of justice, to exalt His generous aim to all diviner deeds, To chase each partial purpose from his breast, And...
Page 117 - Fulke Greville, servant to Queen Elizabeth, counsellor to King James, and friend to Sir Philip Sidney.
Page 29 - Imagination's rays : Where Virtue, rising from the awful depth Of Truth's mysterious bosom...
Page 255 - Clutha was removed from its place by the fall of the walls. The thistle shook there its lonely head: the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out from the windows : and the rank grass of the wall waved round his head. Desolate is the dwelling of Morna : silence is in the house of her fathers.
Page 335 - And thro' the tossing tide of chance and pain. To hold his course...