The Dublin University Magazine, Volume 14William Curry, Jun., and Company, 1839 |
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Page 138 - I'll example you with thievery; The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs the vast sea: the moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun...
Page 396 - tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord— its various tone, Each spring — its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Page 56 - For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead...
Page 334 - A physician in a great city seems to be the mere plaything of fortune; his degree of reputation is, for the most part, totally casual — they that employ him know not his excellence; they that reject him know not his deficience. By any acute observer who had looked on the transactions of the medical world for half a century a very curious book might be written on the "Fortune of Physicians.
Page 10 - Hail to the State of England ! And conjoin With this a salutation as devout, Made to the spiritual fabric of her Church; Founded in truth ; by blood of Martyrdom Cemented ; by the hands of Wisdom reared In beauty of holiness, with ordered pomp, Decent and unreproved.
Page 242 - A. History of Europe, from the commencement of the French revolution in 1789 to the restoration of the Bourbons in 1815.
Page 7 - ... feet two inches high, beautifully proportioned, with a magnificent countenance, expressive of all the cardinal virtues and the Ten Commandments, — and it is asked with an air of triumph if such a man as this will fall into contempt on account of his poverty ? But substitute for him an average, ordinary, uninteresting Minister ; obese, dumpy, neither ill-natured nor good-natured ; neither learned, nor ignorant, striding over the stiles to Church, with a second-rate wife — dusty and deliquescent...
Page 10 - And spires whose *' silent finger points to Heaven ;" Nor wanting, at wide intervals, the bulk Of ancient Minster, lifted above the cloud Of the dense air, which town or city breeds To intercept the sun's glad beams...
Page 21 - They have a higher appreciation of the maxim that it is better that ninety-nine guilty men should escape, than that one innocent man should suffer...
Page 137 - He saw; but blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night. Behold where Dryden's less presumptuous car Wide o'er the fields of Glory bear Two coursers of ethereal race, With necks in thunder clothed, and long-resounding pace. Hark, his hands the lyre explore! Bright-eyed Fancy, hovering o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn, But ah! 'tis heard no more — Oh ! Lyre divine, what daring Spirit Wakes thee now! Tho' he inherit Nor the pride,...