The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, Volume 56W. Curry, jun., and Company, 1860 |
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Page 49
... Headsman ! " " To the Devil himself , for what I care ! " growled old Poulsen . " O , General Poulsen ! and is it thus you welcome me ? " said Von- ved , smiling blandly , and regarding the grim old soldier with an air of gentle ...
... Headsman ! " " To the Devil himself , for what I care ! " growled old Poulsen . " O , General Poulsen ! and is it thus you welcome me ? " said Von- ved , smiling blandly , and regarding the grim old soldier with an air of gentle ...
Page 148
... headsman answered all complaints and protesta- tions . The tax was paid , but the discontent and hatred became deeper . Executions now followed executions . Such was the spectacle that Cola , the beloved of the Romans , offered daily to ...
... headsman answered all complaints and protesta- tions . The tax was paid , but the discontent and hatred became deeper . Executions now followed executions . Such was the spectacle that Cola , the beloved of the Romans , offered daily to ...
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... headsman the other , tyrant , if thou wilt ! " It was not in human nature for a man like the Baron Komperhimmel to be otherwise than most deeply mortified at incurring the resentment of a so- vereign whose favourite adviser he had ...
... headsman the other , tyrant , if thou wilt ! " It was not in human nature for a man like the Baron Komperhimmel to be otherwise than most deeply mortified at incurring the resentment of a so- vereign whose favourite adviser he had ...
Page 164
... headsman . " " Her aid ! " 66 me . " Thy aid . ' Tis thou who wilt save Amalia spake not , but she devour- ed every eloquent lineament of her husband's face , and tried to read his unfathomable eyes - in vain . Vonved saw she doubted ...
... headsman . " " Her aid ! " 66 me . " Thy aid . ' Tis thou who wilt save Amalia spake not , but she devour- ed every eloquent lineament of her husband's face , and tried to read his unfathomable eyes - in vain . Vonved saw she doubted ...
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... headsman the other , tyrant , if thou wilt ! " It was not in human nature for a man like the Baron Koemperhimmel to be otherwise than most deeply mortified at incurring the resentment of a so- vereign whose favourite adviser he had ...
... headsman the other , tyrant , if thou wilt ! " It was not in human nature for a man like the Baron Koemperhimmel to be otherwise than most deeply mortified at incurring the resentment of a so- vereign whose favourite adviser he had ...
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Amalia ancient animals arms army Baron Bawn beautiful Bishop of Zealand boat Bonaparte British Bundoran called Captain castle child Church colour command Cossacks crown dungeon Emperor England English Enniskillen eyes father favour feet fish France Frederikshavn French Gap of Dunloe give Glencolumbkille gold Granny Hallig hand head Headsman heart honour Ireland Irish island Italy Jetsmark Kilcar Killarney Killybegs King Knut Vonved labour lady Lady Morgan lake land Lars Vonved less live look Lord Lough master ment mountain Napoleon nation never night noble Paris party passed Peggy person pilchards political present Prince Queenie Rienzi rocks Roman Rome round Saladin sent side sion Slieve League soldier sword tain thee thing thou thought tion town turn Vonved's walls Weeny wife wild words
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Page 387 - I was confirm'd in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought him selfe to bee a true Poem, that is, a composition, and patterne of the best and honourablest things ; not presuming to sing high praises of heroick men, or famous Cities, unlesse he have in himselfe the experience and the practice of all that which is praise-worthy.
Page 443 - The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order...
Page 387 - And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
Page 211 - Led on the eternal Spring. Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dis Was gather'd, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world...
Page 387 - And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates: and thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her: and they shall be weary.
Page 25 - ... that with extinct as with existing mammalia, particular forms were assigned to particular provinces, and that the same forms were restricted to the same provinces at a former geological period as they are at the present day.
Page 490 - Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.
Page 70 - It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry ; but that it is, now at length, discovered to be fictitious.
Page 255 - Guard them, and him within protect from harms. He can requite thee; for he knows the charms That call fame on such gentle acts as these, And he can spread thy name o'er lands and seas, Whatever clime the sun's bright circle warms. Lift not thy spear against the Muses
Page 233 - ... to some misshapen idol, over the ruined dome of our proudest temple; and shall see a single naked fisherman wash his nets in the river of the ten thousand masts...