The Novice of Saint Dominick, Volume 4T. Hughes, 1823 - Irish fiction |
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... senses , he repeatedly endeavoured to rouse her slumbering reason ; and her boundless expenditure , her indiscriminate ... sense of right ; and sometimes , when the heart obtained a momentary tri- umph over the passions , with that open ...
... senses , he repeatedly endeavoured to rouse her slumbering reason ; and her boundless expenditure , her indiscriminate ... sense of right ; and sometimes , when the heart obtained a momentary tri- umph over the passions , with that open ...
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... senses sicken in the midst of their gay enjoyment ? or why , when gal lantry wooed her delighted attention with all the persuasive rhetoric of assumed pas- sion , did her ear refuse to convey its ho- mage to her heart , and her lip ...
... senses sicken in the midst of their gay enjoyment ? or why , when gal lantry wooed her delighted attention with all the persuasive rhetoric of assumed pas- sion , did her ear refuse to convey its ho- mage to her heart , and her lip ...
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... its witness ! The too - fre- quently illusive senses did not now impose this always - welcome cheat ; it was now no vision of enamoured fancy that roused 1 every pulse to rapture's wildest throb ; it was the 32 . THE NOVICE OF.
... its witness ! The too - fre- quently illusive senses did not now impose this always - welcome cheat ; it was now no vision of enamoured fancy that roused 1 every pulse to rapture's wildest throb ; it was the 32 . THE NOVICE OF.
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... sense had formed between what she might have been and what she should be . To the latter she had been long resign- ed , when to a sense of the former she was again awakened by the unexpected ap- pearance of the duke de Beauvilliers ...
... sense had formed between what she might have been and what she should be . To the latter she had been long resign- ed , when to a sense of the former she was again awakened by the unexpected ap- pearance of the duke de Beauvilliers ...
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... sense , the more her love ap- pears ; and the duke , having already " proved his compassionating disposition " by marrying one love - sick damsel out of mere pity Upon which I interrupted " him and mentioned your engagement " with the ...
... sense , the more her love ap- pears ; and the duke , having already " proved his compassionating disposition " by marrying one love - sick damsel out of mere pity Upon which I interrupted " him and mentioned your engagement " with the ...
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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...