Lights and Shadows of Irish Life, Volume 2Carey, Lea, and Blanchard, 1838 |
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Page 94 - Les vices entrent dans la composition des vertus, comme les poisons entrent dans la composition des remèdes : la prudence les assemble et les tempère, et elle s'en sert utilement contre les maux de la vie.
Page 66 - Out upon Time ! it will leave no more Of the things to come than the things before ! Out upon Time ! who for ever will leave But enough of the past for the future to grieve...
Page 169 - Beauteous in a wilderness, Who, praying always, prays in sleep. And, if she move unquietly, Perchance, 'tis but the blood so free Comes back and tingles in her feet. No doubt, she hath a vision sweet. What if her guardian spirit 'twere, What if she knew her mother near? But this she knows, in joys and woes, That saints will aid if men will call: For the blue sky bends over all!
Page 69 - ... his grandsire. [There are persons now living who remember well the excitement produced in the county in which it occurred by the appalling event that has formed the ground-work of this story. It was related to me by a clergyman who, under the name of
Page 105 - He heard that she had been taken suddenly in her trouble in the neigbour's house, and that now she had a babby on her bosom. Well, to be sure, he ordered everything for her like a lady, and went home, consoling himself for the sin, with thinking of all the good he would do for her, and for every one else; and how he would get her proud father over. But before the morning broke he was waked by the small cry of a babby under his window, and he called up the ould housekeeper, for his heart mistrusted,...
Page 86 - It is poisoned !'' What has taken some time to write, was the transaction of less than a minute ; the villain seized the measure, and attempted to throw what remained of the contents into the fire, but the arm of a strong servingmaiden prevented his purpose. He then rushed to the door ; but here, again, he was interrupted by the stonemason, who had quickly followed their steps ; and poor Mike, who, with the strong animal instinct of hatred, clung to his legs to impede his progress. " Fool ! idiot...
Page 75 - Michael and Snap paired off into the chimney-corner, and Grace burst into tears. " Ay, cry ; — you may well cry, Grace, but it's no use. I'm ould, and almost helpless, — and God only knows " — continued the farmer, as he paced up and down the spacious kitchen, which his father and grandfather had trod before him — " God only knows how long I may be in the land of the living; and then, Grace, then what is to become of you ?" " Me, uncle ?" " Ay, you, uncle ! — why you're growing as great...
Page 82 - As to getting Michael in, when Michael would rather be out, I might as well tie a rat with a sugan. There's no use in gainsaying the poor natural. So I'm thinking the night is so wild, and that craythur so bent upon watching what I'm after, that we'd better go back; — tomorrow night will do as well." " If you'd just let me frighten him with a flash in the pan, it would send him to bed as gentle as a fawn." " Flash in the pan ! God help you, man alive!— the whisper of a pistol even would send...
Page 74 - She loses all consideration of self: she weeps — she laughs — because those she loves weep or laugh. She forgets that she is a separate creation, and feels as if created for her friends — friends! — The word is all too cold to express her devotion ; it must be seen to be understood ; excited, or it can never be appreciated as it deserves. Grace Burnett was a creature of smiles and tears — a sunbeam or a% shadow. She had never been seen to frown, though she was often sad, because her uncle...
Page 134 - So you might, ma'am dear, that's my luck ; it would have stayed quiet and easy in any body else's pocket, but there was a hole in mine, so it walked out, and broke, without so much as by ye'r leave." "Why did you not mend the hole?" " Faith, ma'am, honey, if I did, it would break out again," said Moyna, with some impatience of tone and gesture.