The Novice of Saint Dominick, Volume 4T. Hughes, 1823 - Irish fiction |
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... person ; those native and soul - born graces , more beautiful than even beauty itself ; the splendor of her rank and fortune , and the brilliancy of her talents and acquirements , were at least sufficiently attractive to render her the ...
... person ; those native and soul - born graces , more beautiful than even beauty itself ; the splendor of her rank and fortune , and the brilliancy of her talents and acquirements , were at least sufficiently attractive to render her the ...
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... person and genius , cried her up every where as a wit of the first order . The duke de Montmorency , whose sated heart found in her that novelty which alone had now the power to awaken a thrill on its languid pulse , established every ...
... person and genius , cried her up every where as a wit of the first order . The duke de Montmorency , whose sated heart found in her that novelty which alone had now the power to awaken a thrill on its languid pulse , established every ...
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... persons in Paris , and rendered her house equally the resort of prosperous merit and indigent genius . De Servin , whose extraordinary and ver- satile talents , all wonderful as they really were , were still exceeded by the number and ...
... persons in Paris , and rendered her house equally the resort of prosperous merit and indigent genius . De Servin , whose extraordinary and ver- satile talents , all wonderful as they really were , were still exceeded by the number and ...
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... person , so ani- mated in her air , or so bewitching in her manner . De Sancy made her the subject of an im- promptu epigram ; D'Aubigné said she re- called to his mind the queen Margaret de Valois in her nuptial robes ; and the old ...
... person , so ani- mated in her air , or so bewitching in her manner . De Sancy made her the subject of an im- promptu epigram ; D'Aubigné said she re- called to his mind the queen Margaret de Valois in her nuptial robes ; and the old ...
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... person . The aërial lightness o her snowy drapery , the ver- dant laurel that entwined her brow , the rich luxuriance of her folded tresses , the ardent expression of her wandering eyes , the fire of her countenance , and the wild throb ...
... person . The aërial lightness o her snowy drapery , the ver- dant laurel that entwined her brow , the rich luxuriance of her folded tresses , the ardent expression of her wandering eyes , the fire of her countenance , and the wild throb ...
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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...