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... NORA TYNAN O'MAHONY . COUNT PLUNKETT . W. P. F. STOCKLEY , M.A. , Professor of the Nat . University . WALTER G. STRICKLAND , Director of the National Gallery . THOMAS J. WESTROPP , M.A. , M.R.I.A. & c . , & c . Besides the above , many ...
... NORA TYNAN O'MAHONY . COUNT PLUNKETT . W. P. F. STOCKLEY , M.A. , Professor of the Nat . University . WALTER G. STRICKLAND , Director of the National Gallery . THOMAS J. WESTROPP , M.A. , M.R.I.A. & c . , & c . Besides the above , many ...
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... Nora brought them all back . He sat on , letting his mind wander at its will over the old ways ; and with the pictures of the past , came some of its peace . A happier looking man was he whom the landlord summoned half an hour later ...
... Nora brought them all back . He sat on , letting his mind wander at its will over the old ways ; and with the pictures of the past , came some of its peace . A happier looking man was he whom the landlord summoned half an hour later ...
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... Nora Delaney had wakened up old memories . There was nothing else here to remind him of the past . Oxstand no more resembled Balnatrasnor , than did he , the man of -to - day , resemble the boy of the past . Oxstand , prosperous ...
... Nora Delaney had wakened up old memories . There was nothing else here to remind him of the past . Oxstand no more resembled Balnatrasnor , than did he , the man of -to - day , resemble the boy of the past . Oxstand , prosperous ...
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... Nora Delaney was just getting off her bicycle as he reached the inn . She greeted him with a smile of welcome , and ... Nora's little sitting room . Very soon the barriers that five years of separation had built up were broken down , and ...
... Nora Delaney was just getting off her bicycle as he reached the inn . She greeted him with a smile of welcome , and ... Nora's little sitting room . Very soon the barriers that five years of separation had built up were broken down , and ...
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... Nora Delaney's happy cheerfulness and humorous smile came as a glad relief after weeks of strenuous thinking . And ... Nora's eyes on him . " I wonder where your mind has gone off to , " she ques- tioned . " Somewhere where I think it ...
... Nora Delaney's happy cheerfulness and humorous smile came as a glad relief after weeks of strenuous thinking . And ... Nora's eyes on him . " I wonder where your mind has gone off to , " she ques- tioned . " Somewhere where I think it ...
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Page 140 - tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow.
Page 293 - I asked the earth, and it answered me, "I am not He" ; and whatsoever are in it confessed the same. I asked the sea and the deeps, and the living creeping things, and they answered, "We are not Thy God, seek above us.
Page 293 - Thee, O Thou Beauty of ancient days, yet ever new! too late I loved Thee! And behold, Thou wert within, and I abroad, and there I searched for Thee; deformed I, plunging amid those fair forms which Thou hadst made. Thou wert with me, but I was not with Thee. Things held me far from Thee, which, unless they were in Thee, were not at all.
Page 293 - Too late loved I Thee, O Thou Beauty of ancient days, yet ever new ! too late I loved Thee ! And behold, Thou wert within, and I abroad, and there I searched for Thee; deformed I, plunging amid those fair forms, which Thou hadst made1. Thou wert with me, but I was not with Thee.
Page 580 - NOR cold, nor stern, my soul ! yet I detest These scented rooms, where, to a gaudy throng, Heaves the proud harlot her distended breast In intricacies of laborious song.
Page 464 - When I think about religion at all, I feel as if I would like to found an order for those who cannot believe : the Confraternity of the Faithless one might call it, where on an altar, on which no taper burned, a priest, in whose heart peace had no dwelling, might celebrate with unblessed bread and a chalice empty of wine.
Page 309 - Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, The mere materials with which wisdom builds, Till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems to enrich.
Page 293 - Anaximenes was deceived, I am not God." I asked the heavens, sun, moon, stars, "Nor (say they) are we the God whom thou seekest." And I replied unto all the things which encompass the door of my flesh : " Ye have told me of my God, that ye are not He ; tell me something of Him.
Page 307 - ... you might read all the books in the British Museum (if you could live long enough), and remain an utterly "illiterate," uneducated person ; but that if you read ten pages of a good book, letter by letter, — that is to say, with real accuracy, — you are for evermore in some measure an educated person.
Page 141 - All you that thirst, come to the waters: and you that have no money, make haste, buy and eat; come ye, buy wine and milk without money, and without any price.