The Chronicles of Castle Cloyne; Or, Pictures of the Munster People, Volum 2

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Chapman and Hall, limited, 1885
 

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Pàgina 314 - I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.
Pàgina 239 - That man is happy in his share Who is warm clad, and cleanly fed, Whose necessaries bound his care, And honest labour makes his bed; Who...
Pàgina 74 - The father waketh for the daughter, when no man knoweth; and the care for her taketh away sleep: when she is young, lest she pass away the flower of her age...
Pàgina 108 - And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder ? You make me strange Even to the disposition that I...
Pàgina 154 - The pride he felt when she excited praise, In short, the enjoyment of his own good pleasure, Was thanks enough, and passion beyond measure. — She, had she loved him, might have thought so too; For what will love's exalting not go through, Till long neglect and utter selfishness Shame the fond pride it takes in its distress? But ill prepared was she, in her hard lot, To fancy merit where she found it not — She who had been beguiled — she who was made Within a gentle bosom to be laid — To bless...
Pàgina 60 - Not this dispatch, for we may die at leisure. This famine has a sharp and meagre face : Tis death in an undress of skin and bone ; Where age and youth, their land-mark taen away, Look all one common furrow. Crat. Yet you...
Pàgina 287 - In moments of solitary sadness, a gleam of joy would dart across her mind — She thought she was hastening to that world -where there is neither marrying, nor giving in marriage.
Pàgina 122 - And, with grey hairs, and braise of many days, Do challenge thee to trial of a man. I say, thou hast belied mine innocent child ; Thy slander has gone through and through her heart, And she lies buried with her ancestors, — 0 ! in a tomb where never scandal slept, Save this of hers fram'd by thy villainy.
Pàgina 192 - O'Rafferty advanced to the head of the coffin, and began to read the service for the burial of the dead. The...

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