The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, Volume 56W. Curry, jun., and Company, 1860 |
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... island so appro- priately named Langeland ( Long- land ) . 66 " Mads Neilsen , you idiot , " shouted he , are you drunk , or crazy , or both ? We are out of the bay , and have left Thorö far astern ! " " I know it , Herr Nealen ...
... island so appro- priately named Langeland ( Long- land ) . 66 " Mads Neilsen , you idiot , " shouted he , are you drunk , or crazy , or both ? We are out of the bay , and have left Thorö far astern ! " " I know it , Herr Nealen ...
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... islands of Langeland , Laland , Falster , and the southern coast of the great island of Zealand , enclose , as it were , a tract of sea some forty miles in length by twenty - five to thirty in breadth . There are three narrow open- ings ...
... islands of Langeland , Laland , Falster , and the southern coast of the great island of Zealand , enclose , as it were , a tract of sea some forty miles in length by twenty - five to thirty in breadth . There are three narrow open- ings ...
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... island of Funen , which is there separated from the large island of Zealand ( on the east coast of which Copenhagen nestles ) by the Great Belt , an arm of the sea , and much the largest of the three out- lets of the Baltic , and about ...
... island of Funen , which is there separated from the large island of Zealand ( on the east coast of which Copenhagen nestles ) by the Great Belt , an arm of the sea , and much the largest of the three out- lets of the Baltic , and about ...
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... island is related in the sixth division , com- prising the proceedings of the Portu- guese and Dutch , and the conquest of the island by the English . Part seven describes the Southern and Central Provinces , and the Cey- lon Government ...
... island is related in the sixth division , com- prising the proceedings of the Portu- guese and Dutch , and the conquest of the island by the English . Part seven describes the Southern and Central Provinces , and the Cey- lon Government ...
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... island remunerative , the expenditure exceeded the income , so that their possession of Ceylon was aptly compared to one of the expen- sive tulips of Holland , which bore a fabulous price without any intrinsic value . Such conduct ...
... island remunerative , the expenditure exceeded the income , so that their possession of Ceylon was aptly compared to one of the expen- sive tulips of Holland , which bore a fabulous price without any intrinsic value . Such conduct ...
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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...