The Novice of Saint Dominick, Volume 4T. Hughes, 1823 - Irish fiction |
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... 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 object of general ...
... 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 object of general ...
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... soul . " No ! heaven is witness that I esteem and " reverence you above all human beings , " and that that heart which you now be- lieve the prey of every folly , throbs not " at this moment with a sentiment more warm , more tender ...
... soul . " No ! heaven is witness that I esteem and " reverence you above all human beings , " and that that heart which you now be- lieve the prey of every folly , throbs not " at this moment with a sentiment more warm , more tender ...
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... offered up at the shrine of her genius and her charms , did her unsatisfied soul so often turn on itself in anxious search for something dearer to its feelings than the world's adulation could bestow ? why , even in the 22 THE NOVICE OF.
... offered up at the shrine of her genius and her charms , did her unsatisfied soul so often turn on itself in anxious search for something dearer to its feelings than the world's adulation could bestow ? why , even in the 22 THE NOVICE OF.
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... soul - felt bliss floated over awaking me- mory , and that the now - passive heart stole from the recollection of its former felicity one sweet emotion to warm its latent nerves : for the rich , the noble , the far- famed , lady de St ...
... soul - felt bliss floated over awaking me- mory , and that the now - passive heart stole from the recollection of its former felicity one sweet emotion to warm its latent nerves : for the rich , the noble , the far- famed , lady de St ...
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... him , with dignified and graceful ease , the glow of modest confusion and triumph- ant pride blushing on her cheek , her eyes beaming with the brilliant emanation of $ an elated soul , created to command , and proudly ST . DOMINICK . 31.
... him , with dignified and graceful ease , the glow of modest confusion and triumph- ant pride blushing on her cheek , her eyes beaming with the brilliant emanation of $ an elated soul , created to command , and proudly ST . DOMINICK . 31.
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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...