The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, Volume 56W. Curry, jun., and Company, 1860 |
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... Queenie ? The veiled hat was bent down and the face averted . The sloping shoulders had grown a little fuller , the figure more stately ; but the peculiar grace of the small head and neck remained un- altered . As I looked , I felt I ...
... Queenie ? The veiled hat was bent down and the face averted . The sloping shoulders had grown a little fuller , the figure more stately ; but the peculiar grace of the small head and neck remained un- altered . As I looked , I felt I ...
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... QUEENIE . MY DEAR MARY , Rome , April 25th : I fear that I shall have to leave Rome , at least for a time . I am as if pursued by a phantom . Let me tell you what passed at Mr. Gisborne's to - day . He is now en- gaged on a lovely group ...
... QUEENIE . MY DEAR MARY , Rome , April 25th : I fear that I shall have to leave Rome , at least for a time . I am as if pursued by a phantom . Let me tell you what passed at Mr. Gisborne's to - day . He is now en- gaged on a lovely group ...
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... QUEENIE . From Sir Gaspar Monckton , to William ' Lawrence , Esq . DEAR LAWRENCE , Rome , May 15th . I write to you again from Rome . You may remember we were together when I was so struck with the statue of Hermione , last year . The ...
... QUEENIE . From Sir Gaspar Monckton , to William ' Lawrence , Esq . DEAR LAWRENCE , Rome , May 15th . I write to you again from Rome . You may remember we were together when I was so struck with the statue of Hermione , last year . The ...
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... Queenie . Poor , weak , erring child ! Who knows , if , instead of the frivolous life I made for her , I had been less afraid of scaring her child - like nature , and had nourished her with such intellec- tual food as that ; if she had ...
... Queenie . Poor , weak , erring child ! Who knows , if , instead of the frivolous life I made for her , I had been less afraid of scaring her child - like nature , and had nourished her with such intellec- tual food as that ; if she had ...
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... Queenie Leighton . You don't know her history , and what she has been about all this time I don't either - quite , for she is as cunning as ten devils and always was . She knew what she was at when she threw me over years ago . I had a ...
... Queenie Leighton . You don't know her history , and what she has been about all this time I don't either - quite , for she is as cunning as ten devils and always was . She knew what she was at when she threw me over years ago . I had a ...
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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...