Curran and His ContemporariesW. Blackwood, 1850 - 496 páginas |
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... Eneid , over which , he told me in the morning , he had been crying all night . For my part , as I very unclassically remarked , Dido might 1 have hanged herself at the mast - head without exciting 10 CURRAN AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES.
... Eneid , over which , he told me in the morning , he had been crying all night . For my part , as I very unclassically remarked , Dido might 1 have hanged herself at the mast - head without exciting 10 CURRAN AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES.
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Charles Phillips. have hanged herself at the mast - head without exciting in me , at the time , an additional emotion . Those who have ever enjoyed the comforts of a ship's cabin in a storm , will know how to ... head without exciting ...
Charles Phillips. have hanged herself at the mast - head without exciting in me , at the time , an additional emotion . Those who have ever enjoyed the comforts of a ship's cabin in a storm , will know how to ... head without exciting ...
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... head of a college of conjurors ! I may venture to predict , if ever such an institution should spring up in Ireland , its mem- bers will be only bottle conjurors . That Mr Curran passed through this university without much distinction ...
... head of a college of conjurors ! I may venture to predict , if ever such an institution should spring up in Ireland , its mem- bers will be only bottle conjurors . That Mr Curran passed through this university without much distinction ...
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... round a large table in the cabin we were fourteen in number . A young Highland lord had taken the head of the table and the conversation , and with a modesty peculiar to himself , gave a history of his 18 CURRAN AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES.
... round a large table in the cabin we were fourteen in number . A young Highland lord had taken the head of the table and the conversation , and with a modesty peculiar to himself , gave a history of his 18 CURRAN AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES.
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... head I have suspended two vessels of tin , one above the other . When I go to bed , which is always at ten , I pour a bottle of water into the upper vessel , in the bottom of which is a hole of such a size as to let the water pass ...
... head I have suspended two vessels of tin , one above the other . When I go to bed , which is always at ten , I pour a bottle of water into the upper vessel , in the bottom of which is a hole of such a size as to let the water pass ...
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Página 78 - There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind, Which I respect not.
Página 310 - She is far from the land where her young hero sleeps, And lovers around her are sighing; But coldly she turns from their gaze, and weeps, For her heart in his grave is lying.
Página 310 - He had lived for his love, for his country he died, They were all that to life had entwined him ; Nor soon shall the tears of his country be dried, Nor long will his love stay behind him. Oh ! make her a grave where the sunbeams rest When they promise a glorious morrow ; They'll shine o'er her sleep, like a smile from the West, From her own loved island of sorrow.
Página 304 - OH! BREATHE NOT HIS NAME. OH ! breathe not his name, let it sleep in the shade, Where cold and unhonour'd his relics are laid ; Sad, silent, and dark, be the tears that we shed, As the night-dew that falls on the grass o'er his head. But the night-dew that falls, though in silence it weeps, Shall brighten with verdure the grave where he sleeps ; And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls, Shall long keep his memory green in our souls.
Página 310 - SHE is far from the land where her young hero sleeps, And lovers are round her sighing ; But coldly she turns from their gaze, and weeps, For her heart in his grave is lying.
Página 298 - You, my lord, are a judge ; I am the supposed culprit: I am a man, you are a man also; by a revolution of power we might change places, though we never could change characters. If I stand at the bar of this court and dare not vindicate my character, what a farce is your justice?
Página 301 - I have but one request to ask at my departure from this world - it is the charity of its silence ! Let no man write my epitaph: for as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them.
Página 299 - By you, too, who, if it were possible to collect all the innocent blood that you have shed in your unhallowed ministry, in one great reservoir, your lordship might swim in...
Página 173 - ... no matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted upon the altar of slavery ; the first moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain, the altar and the god sink together in the dust ; his soul walks abroad in her own majesty ; his body swells beyond the measure of his chains that burst from around him, and he stands redeemed, regenerated, and disenthralled, by the irresistible Genius of UNIVERSAL EMANCIPATION ! [Here Mr.
Página 297 - I have always understood it to be the duty of a judge, when a prisoner has been convicted, to pronounce the sentence of the law. I have also understood that judges sometimes think it their duty to hear with patience and to speak with humanity...