The Irish Quarterly Review, Volume 5W. B. Kelly, 1855 |
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Page 82
... boys hiding themselves behind a bench two or three times a week , after they had done their day's work and had their tea , to practice writing on scraps of paper with worn - out pens begged from the counting - house . The foreman of ...
... boys hiding themselves behind a bench two or three times a week , after they had done their day's work and had their tea , to practice writing on scraps of paper with worn - out pens begged from the counting - house . The foreman of ...
Page 83
... boys Mr. Wilson undertook the management of its affairs , but occasionally his authority was guided by a general vote . This School , it will be observed , was an evening School , but in the trade of the Candle Company a branch of the ...
... boys Mr. Wilson undertook the management of its affairs , but occasionally his authority was guided by a general vote . This School , it will be observed , was an evening School , but in the trade of the Candle Company a branch of the ...
Page 84
... boys he had met could be our factory boys , as they were he said more neatly dressed than his public school - fellows used to be . By the help of these tea parties , we made the boys who did not belong to the school feel awkward and ...
... boys he had met could be our factory boys , as they were he said more neatly dressed than his public school - fellows used to be . By the help of these tea parties , we made the boys who did not belong to the school feel awkward and ...
Page 85
... boys ; and at length the merit of each class was put to the test by twenty - two of the boys playing eleven of the men , and beating thein . This occurred in May , 1851 , and later in the year , they beat them again in a return of match ...
... boys ; and at length the merit of each class was put to the test by twenty - two of the boys playing eleven of the men , and beating thein . This occurred in May , 1851 , and later in the year , they beat them again in a return of match ...
Page 86
... boys , but the cricket and summer excursion make the whole to be pleasant . I feel that the amount of money , though so large , has been exceedingly well laid out , except that here , as in many other cases , with the thing to do again ...
... boys , but the cricket and summer excursion make the whole to be pleasant . I feel that the amount of money , though so large , has been exceedingly well laid out , except that here , as in many other cases , with the thing to do again ...
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Page 574 - thing of evil— prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us, by that God we both adore, Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore: Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore!
Page 406 - And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
Page 459 - Queen rose of the rosebud garden of girls, Come hither, the dances are done, In gloss of satin and glimmer of pearls, Queen lily and rose in one; Shine out, little head, sunning over with curls, To the flowers, and be their sun.
Page 200 - His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is like the tan; His brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man.
Page 574 - Leave my loneliness unbroken! quit the bust above my door! Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!" Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore." And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, . And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor: And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted —...
Page 196 - Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom.
Page 204 - All was ended now, the hope, and the fear, and the sorrow, All the aching of heart, the restless, unsatisfied longing, All the dull, deep pain, and constant anguish of patience ! And, as she pressed once more the lifeless head to her bosom, Meekly she bowed her own, and murmured,
Page 573 - But the Raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling, Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird and bust and door : Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore — What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking
Page 67 - Eye, to which all order festers, all things here are out of joint: Science moves, but slowly slowly, creeping on from point to point: Slowly comes a hungry people, as a lion creeping nigher, Glares at one that nods and winks behind a slowlydying fire. Yet I doubt not thro...
Page 574 - I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core; This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamplight gloated o'er, — But whose velvet violet lining with the lamplight gloating o'er She shall press ah nevermore ! Then methought the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer Swung by Seraphim whose footfalls tinkled on the tufted floor. "Wretch!