The Novice of Saint Dominick, Volume 4T. Hughes, 1823 - Irish fiction |
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... smile which the triumph of every long- cherished wish illumined in her eye . Why , when the adulation of a world was offered up at the shrine of her genius and her charms , did her unsatisfied soul so often turn on itself in anxious ...
... smile which the triumph of every long- cherished wish illumined in her eye . Why , when the adulation of a world was offered up at the shrine of her genius and her charms , did her unsatisfied soul so often turn on itself in anxious ...
Page 24
... the sportive smile of pleasure : for , denied that supreme hap- piness of which her soul was capable , she pursued the attainment of all those lesser joys fortune had placed within her grasp , and pursued 24 THE NOVICE OF.
... the sportive smile of pleasure : for , denied that supreme hap- piness of which her soul was capable , she pursued the attainment of all those lesser joys fortune had placed within her grasp , and pursued 24 THE NOVICE OF.
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... smile " It is an old fashioned act " of civility to present a birth - day gift ; " and yet it is among the number of those " little antiquated interchanges of social " courtesy which time seems willing to rescue from the revolutions of ...
... smile " It is an old fashioned act " of civility to present a birth - day gift ; " and yet it is among the number of those " little antiquated interchanges of social " courtesy which time seems willing to rescue from the revolutions of ...
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... smiling ; " it is a more humble conveyancer of poor temporal dignity . " Imogen looked again at the paper - the royal seal was attached to it - Imogen changed colour . The chevalier in a graver tone continued " That ancient and ...
... smiling ; " it is a more humble conveyancer of poor temporal dignity . " Imogen looked again at the paper - the royal seal was attached to it - Imogen changed colour . The chevalier in a graver tone continued " That ancient and ...
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... smile , and beheld in the in- telligent beauty of her countenance an in- dex to a volume of honours . Meantime the youthful peeress , delight- ed and delighting , conversed alternately with her gracious sovereign , or received the ...
... smile , and beheld in the in- telligent beauty of her countenance an in- dex to a volume of honours . Meantime the youthful peeress , delight- ed and delighting , conversed alternately with her gracious sovereign , or received 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...