New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 40Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth Henry Colburn, 1834 |
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... matter of chance whether any given Irish infant turn out a wise or a foolish man . And in the majority of adults it is hard to say to which category they belong . They , almost without exception , seem to hover through life between the ...
... matter of chance whether any given Irish infant turn out a wise or a foolish man . And in the majority of adults it is hard to say to which category they belong . They , almost without exception , seem to hover through life between the ...
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... matter to the English reader ) the father and mother bore her by turns , rolled in a cloak on their backs ; and being wearied with their miserable burthen , they placed her for a moment on the parapet of a bridge over which they were ...
... matter to the English reader ) the father and mother bore her by turns , rolled in a cloak on their backs ; and being wearied with their miserable burthen , they placed her for a moment on the parapet of a bridge over which they were ...
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... matter - of - fact , and knowing the freaks of poor Thady's fancy , guessed what he wanted , and sent back the articles at haphazard . In a short time after , the priest's shepherd was about to mark his fleecy flock , and he desired ...
... matter - of - fact , and knowing the freaks of poor Thady's fancy , guessed what he wanted , and sent back the articles at haphazard . In a short time after , the priest's shepherd was about to mark his fleecy flock , and he desired ...
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... matter of concealment or mystery , that all hopes of a com- mission , or , indeed , an endeavour to procure me one , were abandoned , and I felt myself doomed to the eternal correction of a Latin exercise instead of the superintendence ...
... matter of concealment or mystery , that all hopes of a com- mission , or , indeed , an endeavour to procure me one , were abandoned , and I felt myself doomed to the eternal correction of a Latin exercise instead of the superintendence ...
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... matter of fifteen sovereigns or so . " " Now , my dear gentleman , " said the kind - hearted woman , with tears standing in her eyes , " do ye leave it with me ; I will take honest care of it , and ye shall have it either as ye want it ...
... matter of fifteen sovereigns or so . " " Now , my dear gentleman , " said the kind - hearted woman , with tears standing in her eyes , " do ye leave it with me ; I will take honest care of it , and ye shall have it either as ye want it ...
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Page 142 - Grace was in all her steps, Heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love.
Page 101 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony.
Page 43 - The light which we have gained, was given us, not to be ever staring on, but by it to discover onward things more remote from our knowledge.
Page 43 - ... a wicked race of deceivers, who as that story goes of the Egyptian Typhon with his conspirators, how they dealt with the good Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds.
Page 41 - Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward.
Page 43 - We have not yet found them all, lords and commons, nor ever shall do, till her master's second coming ; he shall bring together every joint and member, and shall mould them into an immortal feature of loveliness and perfection.
Page 43 - Truth indeed came once into the world with her divine Master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on; but when he ascended, and his apostles after him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers, who, as that story goes of the Egyptian Typhon with his conspirators how they dealt with the good Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds.
Page 46 - ... where they undoubtedly, that by their labours, counsels, and prayers, have been earnest for the common good of religion and their country, shall receive above the inferior orders of the blessed, the regal addition of principalities, legions, and thrones into their glorious titles, and in supereminence of beatific vision, progressing the dateless and irrevoluble circle of eternity, shall clasp inseparable hands with joy and blifls. in overmeasure for ever.
Page 46 - ... in this land throughout all ages ; whereby this great and warlike nation, instructed and inured to the fervent and continual practice of truth and righteousness, and casting far from her the rags of her old vices, may press on hard to that high and happy emulation to be found the soberest, wisest, and most Christian people...
Page 8 - All this hath somewhat worn me, and may wear, But must be borne. I stoop not to despair; For I have battled with mine agony, And made me wings wherewith to overfly The narrow circus of my dungeon wall...