The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, Volume 10W. Curry, jun., and Company, 1837 |
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... seemed to be , that such a control should be exercised over , and such a direction given to , the powerful spirit that had been excited , as might render its operation at the same time benefi- cial to individuals , and safe to the in ...
... seemed to be , that such a control should be exercised over , and such a direction given to , the powerful spirit that had been excited , as might render its operation at the same time benefi- cial to individuals , and safe to the in ...
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... seemed as if at each hand's turn A devil stepped between us . She became a mother In three months more , for which we had cause to mourn . Her first child bore the accursed mark of Cain- A blood - red scythe was printed on his arm . The ...
... seemed as if at each hand's turn A devil stepped between us . She became a mother In three months more , for which we had cause to mourn . Her first child bore the accursed mark of Cain- A blood - red scythe was printed on his arm . The ...
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... seemed quite unaccountable , till he further displayed his feelings of igid conscientiousness , by detaining me after the hour for leaving him , an equal time to that consumed by his ab- sence , and the casual discussion which ensued ...
... seemed quite unaccountable , till he further displayed his feelings of igid conscientiousness , by detaining me after the hour for leaving him , an equal time to that consumed by his ab- sence , and the casual discussion which ensued ...
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... seemed to promise little of increasing comfort or affection . She was ill suited indeed to the position which she had rashly selected . Accustomed as she was to all the elegancies of life , the straitened circumstances of her husband ...
... seemed to promise little of increasing comfort or affection . She was ill suited indeed to the position which she had rashly selected . Accustomed as she was to all the elegancies of life , the straitened circumstances of her husband ...
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... seemed to rate with him more nearly in mental refinement than in personal attainments . Delicate to a fault in all his own sensi- bilities , he was little suited to the soci- ety of his less accomplished compa- nions ; and perhaps he ...
... seemed to rate with him more nearly in mental refinement than in personal attainments . Delicate to a fault in all his own sensi- bilities , he was little suited to the soci- ety of his less accomplished compa- nions ; and perhaps he ...
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Page 116 - ... and Wine into the Body and Blood of Christ at or after the Consecration thereof by any Person whatsoever : and that the Invocation or Adoration of the Virgin Mary, or any other Saint, and the Sacrifice of the Mass, as they are now used in the Church of Rome, are superstitious and idolatrous.
Page 122 - THE righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: And merciful men are taken away, none considering That the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.
Page 529 - Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious, and free, First flower of the earth, and first gem of the sea, I might hail thee with prouder, with happier brow, But oh ! could I love thee more deeply than now...
Page 116 - And I do hereby disclaim, disavow, and solemnly abjure any intention to subvert the present church establishment, as settled by law within this realm.
Page 201 - He appeared very ambitious to learn to write; and one of the attorneys got a board knocked up at a window on the top of a staircase; and that was his desk where he sat and wrote after copies of court and other hands the clerks gave him. He made himself so expert a writer that he took in business and earned some pence by hackney-writing. And thus by degrees he pushed his faculties and fell to forms, and, by books that were lent him, became an exquisite entering clerk; and by the same course of improvement...
Page 119 - I do swear, That I will defend to the utmost of my Power the Settlement of Property within this Realm, as established by the Laws: And I do hereby disclaim, disavow and solemnly abjure Any Intention to subvert the present Church Establishment as settled by Law within this Realm...
Page 401 - I lie simmering over things for an hour or so before I get up — and there's the time I am dressing to overhaul my half-sleeping half-waking projet de chapitre — and when I get the paper before me, it commonly runs off pretty easily. Besides, I often take a dose in the plantations, and, while Tom marks out a dyke or a drain as I have directed, one's fancy may be running its ain riggs in some other world.
Page 150 - ... it is with the deepest regret that I recollect in my manhood the opportunities of learning which I neglected in my youth ; that through every part of my literary career I have felt pinched and hampered by my own ignorance ; and that I would at this moment give half the reputation I have had the good fortune to acquire, if by doing so I could rest the remaining part upon a sound foundation of learning and science.
Page 87 - The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament; From haunted spring and dale, Edged with poplar pale, The parting Genius is with sighing sent; With flower-inwoven tresses torn The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn...
Page 395 - I am compelled to suspect the inhospitality of some individual of higher station, most gratuitously exercised certainly, since, after what I have here said, no one will probably choose to boast of possessing this literary curiosity. " We had a good deal of laughing, I remember, on what the public might be supposed to think, or say, concerning the gloomy and ominous nature of our mutual gifts.