The Novice of Saint Dominick, Volume 4T. Hughes, 1823 - Irish fiction |
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... lord ? " 66 " I am glad you find it so , " said de Sancy , laughing ; " for it is but just your " crime should become your retribution ; " and that you , who have kindled a glow " in so many hearts to - day , should share " in the ...
... lord ? " 66 " I am glad you find it so , " said de Sancy , laughing ; " for it is but just your " crime should become your retribution ; " and that you , who have kindled a glow " in so many hearts to - day , should share " in the ...
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... lord , last parted with your charming " captive there all was discord and dan- ger , here all harmony and pleasure . " 86 " And yet , " said the duke , " so inde- " pendent of situation is happiness , so en- " tirely does it steal its ...
... lord , last parted with your charming " captive there all was discord and dan- ger , here all harmony and pleasure . " 86 " And yet , " said the duke , " so inde- " pendent of situation is happiness , so en- " tirely does it steal its ...
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... lord high constable took their station at either side of their fair hostess ; but for the first time she found it impossible to converse with the former , and did not even affect attention to the florid compliments of the latter . When ...
... lord high constable took their station at either side of their fair hostess ; but for the first time she found it impossible to converse with the former , and did not even affect attention to the florid compliments of the latter . When ...
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... lord marquis de Sancy , than whom I know not a more discreet or pleasant " youth . It was he who proposed we " should all go to the Louvre to see the " Swiss guards reviewed by the king and " the master of the ordnance ; and scarcely ...
... lord marquis de Sancy , than whom I know not a more discreet or pleasant " youth . It was he who proposed we " should all go to the Louvre to see the " Swiss guards reviewed by the king and " the master of the ordnance ; and scarcely ...
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... lord , instead " of visiting the chill regions of Bretagne , " return with us to the genial clime of " Provence . " << " I am by no means so atmospherical a being , " said the duke laughing , " as to " be deterred by an icicle , or ...
... lord , instead " of visiting the chill regions of Bretagne , " return with us to the genial clime of " Provence . " << " I am by no means so atmospherical a being , " said the duke laughing , " as to " be deterred by an icicle , or ...
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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...