Tales of My Time, Volume 3H. Colburn, 1829 |
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... Norah Kelly might know something of him , but she has also disappeared , and we conclude , that finding the solitude of Glendruid too dreadful after the last of her friends had departed , she is probably gone to beg through the country ...
... Norah Kelly might know something of him , but she has also disappeared , and we conclude , that finding the solitude of Glendruid too dreadful after the last of her friends had departed , she is probably gone to beg through the country ...
Page 168
... Norah Kelly , who screamed aloud , dropped a pitcher of water which she held with one hand upon her head , and articulating the words " Oh , Masther Albert ! " fell senseless on the ground . Lost in astonishment , and apparently much ...
... Norah Kelly , who screamed aloud , dropped a pitcher of water which she held with one hand upon her head , and articulating the words " Oh , Masther Albert ! " fell senseless on the ground . Lost in astonishment , and apparently much ...
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... Norah , after which , if you fol- low me , I will inform you of every thing con- cerning your brother . ” In a little time Norah opened her eyes , which wept many a tear as she rested them on me . Enjoining silence , we supported her ...
... Norah , after which , if you fol- low me , I will inform you of every thing con- cerning your brother . ” In a little time Norah opened her eyes , which wept many a tear as she rested them on me . Enjoining silence , we supported her ...
Page 170
... Norah set about preparing some trout , while I sent off a courier to St. Helier with a line to the innkeeper , ordering my things to be given to the bearer , and resolved to share the comfort- less abode of my poor brother . When this ...
... Norah set about preparing some trout , while I sent off a courier to St. Helier with a line to the innkeeper , ordering my things to be given to the bearer , and resolved to share the comfort- less abode of my poor brother . When this ...
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... Norah , who knows nothing of any loss that he sustained , and I bought at St. He- lier something of the tablet kind , which I hoped to make him believe was his own , but he I 2 THE YOUNG REFORMERS . 171 stranger: "If he looks melancholy ...
... Norah , who knows nothing of any loss that he sustained , and I bought at St. He- lier something of the tablet kind , which I hoped to make him believe was his own , but he I 2 THE YOUNG REFORMERS . 171 stranger: "If he looks melancholy ...
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Page 173 - ... nor the lady's, which is nice/ nor the lover's, which is all these : but it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects : and, indeed, the sundry contemplation of my travels, in which my often rumination wraps me, is a most humorous sadness.
Page 42 - Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
Page 244 - ... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below :'' so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
Page 42 - Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, The wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge...
Page 175 - tis the mind that makes the body rich ; And, as the sun breaks thro' the darkest clouds, So honour peereth in the meanest habit.
Page 141 - His joys are short, and few; yet when he drinks, His dread retires, the flowing glasses add Courage, and mirth: magnificent in thought, Imaginary riches he enjoys, And in the gaol expatiates unconfin'd. 395 Nor can the poet Bacchus...
Page 336 - ... sacrifice of every passion, and from whose terrible judgment they would hide their heads. They dread him as an angry Judge, but do not love him as a beneficent and merciful Father. Miserable and mistaken sinners ! who do not know that God is Love, and that those who do not love God, cannot know him ; for to know and to love him, are one and the same thing. 8. O Lord God Almighty ! awful as thou art, and yet so easy to be approached, who sittest so high above this earth, and yet makest thyself...
Page 166 - ... familiar to me, though I could not recollect when or where I had ever seen him.
Page 146 - The device represented in this rude painting was the sun marking its progress on a dial, and the motto underneath was " Ma revolution esb invincible, Telle est la votre, Francois.