The AmuletW. Baynes & Son, and Wightman & Cramp, 1833 |
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... never thought that ye'r going into foreign parts would make a heathen of ye entirely . To be sure , it turns the mind a little to leave one's own people ; but to shift that way against what the whole world knows to be as true as gospel ...
... never thought that ye'r going into foreign parts would make a heathen of ye entirely . To be sure , it turns the mind a little to leave one's own people ; but to shift that way against what the whole world knows to be as true as gospel ...
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... never forgets in the presence of a female . * After the usual civilities had passed , Moyna commenced- " The lady's at me agin about the luck ; and now , may be , she'll have the goodness to say what she said awhile ago . " " I told ...
... never forgets in the presence of a female . * After the usual civilities had passed , Moyna commenced- " The lady's at me agin about the luck ; and now , may be , she'll have the goodness to say what she said awhile ago . " " I told ...
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... never to make as much by any thing as another . Why the bonneen we reared from the size o ' my hand , that Dorney Cobb offered me any money for at Candlemas , caught could and died at Easter- sorrow a man on the common had the luck to ...
... never to make as much by any thing as another . Why the bonneen we reared from the size o ' my hand , that Dorney Cobb offered me any money for at Candlemas , caught could and died at Easter- sorrow a man on the common had the luck to ...
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... never offered at the head , but the shins - which he broke as compleat as any thing you And so the magistrate set the ould boy's shins against Mickey's eye , and bid them make it up . Ah ! there's no law for the poor , at all , at all ...
... never offered at the head , but the shins - which he broke as compleat as any thing you And so the magistrate set the ould boy's shins against Mickey's eye , and bid them make it up . Ah ! there's no law for the poor , at all , at all ...
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... never heed , ' and I turned the horse round to come home . ' Sure , ' says he , ' ye're not going to stir ill - blood out of the offer I made ye from kindness ; if ye did not take advantage of it , it was your fault not mine . ' Well ...
... never heed , ' and I turned the horse round to come home . ' Sure , ' says he , ' ye're not going to stir ill - blood out of the offer I made ye from kindness ; if ye did not take advantage of it , it was your fault not mine . ' Well ...
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Page 196 - Ah ! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress, And cheeks all pale, which but an hour ago Blushed at the praise of their own loveliness; And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts, and choking sighs Which ne'er might be repeated ; who could guess If ever more should meet those mutual eyes, Since upon night so sweet such awful morn could rise?
Page 80 - ... there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy. But when ! or where ! — This world was made for Caesar.
Page 79 - IT must be so — Plato, thou reason'st well ! — Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Page 226 - And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him.
Page 80 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Page 79 - The wide, th' unbounded prospect lies before me ; But shadows, clouds, and darkness rest upon it. Here will I hold. If there's a Power above us, (And that there is, all nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue, And that which he delights in must be happy.
Page 208 - ... taste what I eat or what I drink ? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women ? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king...
Page 79 - Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass ? The wide, the unbounded prospect, lies before me; But shadows, clouds, and darkness rest upon it.
Page 199 - I ran it through, even from my boyish days To the very moment that he bade me tell it; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i...
Page 231 - And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.