The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, Volume 86W. Curry, jun., and Company, 1875 |
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... tion ? Protection ( as we may call absolutism ) or Liberalism ? I trust that with the liberties we possess we shall eventually arrive as a nation at the goal which our well - wishers have in view ; but meanwhile we stumble over many ...
... tion ? Protection ( as we may call absolutism ) or Liberalism ? I trust that with the liberties we possess we shall eventually arrive as a nation at the goal which our well - wishers have in view ; but meanwhile we stumble over many ...
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... tion ; how afflicted my aunt was at so much ignorance ! " What ! no talents d'agrément , no music , nor painting , no living language , no science , nothing of what constitutes the appanage of a well - bred young girl ? " I replied that ...
... tion ; how afflicted my aunt was at so much ignorance ! " What ! no talents d'agrément , no music , nor painting , no living language , no science , nothing of what constitutes the appanage of a well - bred young girl ? " I replied that ...
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... tion I experience in the midst of this crowd - a sensation at once like that of a solitude that freezes the heart , and a strange longing to know and love each of those my fellow - creatures . My aunt proposed that I should accompany ...
... tion I experience in the midst of this crowd - a sensation at once like that of a solitude that freezes the heart , and a strange longing to know and love each of those my fellow - creatures . My aunt proposed that I should accompany ...
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... tion as to know books , and , it may be , more sagacity and discernment . Many elderly people pass their whole lives in the great world , but with such levity and inattention that they know no more of it than they did at fifteen . 66 ...
... tion as to know books , and , it may be , more sagacity and discernment . Many elderly people pass their whole lives in the great world , but with such levity and inattention that they know no more of it than they did at fifteen . 66 ...
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... tion . " Observe the importance which he always attaches to attention . If you want to learn , you must attend , observe , be for ever on the alert . This injunction recurs every other page in the course of the Letters . We have had it ...
... tion . " Observe the importance which he always attaches to attention . If you want to learn , you must attend , observe , be for ever on the alert . This injunction recurs every other page in the course of the Letters . We have had it ...
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Page 455 - From point to point, with power and grace And music in the bounds of law, To those conclusions when we saw The God within him light his face, And seem to lift the form, and glow In azure orbits heavenly-wise ; And over those ethereal eyes The bar of Michael Angelo. LXXXVIII. WILD bird, whose warble, liquid sweet, Rings Eden thro...
Page 751 - My Lord, When I lost the freedom of my cell, which was my College, 'yet I found some degree of it in my quiet country parsonage : but I am weary of the noise and oppositions of this place; and indeed, God and Nature did not intend me for contentions, but for study and quietness.
Page 547 - For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument, that makes a poem, —a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the spirit of a plant or an animal, it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing.
Page 338 - Before I go whence I shall not return, Even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death ; A land of darkness, as darkness itself; And of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as darkness.
Page 335 - ... moment, at the innumerable glimpses of idea that arrived not at the maturity of full view, at the fully matured fancies discarded in despair as unmanageable, at the cautious selections and rejections, at the painful erasures and interpolations — in a word, at the wheels and pinions, the tackle for sceneshifting, the step-ladders and demon-traps, the cock's feathers, the red paint and the black patches, which in ninety-nine cases out of the hundred constitute the properties of the literary histrio.
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