The O'Neiles; Or, Second SightProvost & Company, 36, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden., 1870 - 257 pages |
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... allowed her children to do so . His family consisted of four children , but his eldest- born , Pierce O'Neile , who had once been the pride and idol of his heart , was now an outcast and a wanderer far from the land of his birth . It ...
... allowed her children to do so . His family consisted of four children , but his eldest- born , Pierce O'Neile , who had once been the pride and idol of his heart , was now an outcast and a wanderer far from the land of his birth . It ...
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... allowing him to provide a governess for his daughters . One accomplishment , however , was still exercised in the family , in which Geraldine , young as she was , excelled , her performance on the harp , which in better days had been ...
... allowing him to provide a governess for his daughters . One accomplishment , however , was still exercised in the family , in which Geraldine , young as she was , excelled , her performance on the harp , which in better days had been ...
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... allowed to visit again the scenes which , I may say , in a few short hours have become so familiar and- " He hesitated , as if afraid of saying too much , when Geraldine broke the pause that ensued . “ Ah , flatterer ! I am sure you ...
... allowed to visit again the scenes which , I may say , in a few short hours have become so familiar and- " He hesitated , as if afraid of saying too much , when Geraldine broke the pause that ensued . “ Ah , flatterer ! I am sure you ...
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... allow the sunshine to close over us . " Still , Miss Catherine , I should be sorry that this de- finition should apply to you , or any like you . " There was a strong pathos in his voice as he said this to her . " Our happiness , such ...
... allow the sunshine to close over us . " Still , Miss Catherine , I should be sorry that this de- finition should apply to you , or any like you . " There was a strong pathos in his voice as he said this to her . " Our happiness , such ...
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... allows one stray curl to fall upon her hand . And now there swells through the lofty old - fashioned apartment of centuries back , a soft melodious strain , one of the old touching melodies of Erin , that have since become immortalised ...
... allows one stray curl to fall upon her hand . And now there swells through the lofty old - fashioned apartment of centuries back , a soft melodious strain , one of the old touching melodies of Erin , that have since become immortalised ...
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Abbess afther anyhow arms assured beautiful began believe breath Captain Sweeny Catherine O'Neile Catherine's chapel child cousin dare dark daylight streamed dear door dreadful dream Edward Maitland excited eyes face Father Maguire Fcap fear feeling fell felt forget friends gaze Geraldine girl give glance hand happy hear heard heart Heaven Herbert honour hope hour imagined Ireland Irish light Lionel lips listened looked manner Margaret Maitland Masther Michael Phelan mind Miss Catherine Miss Maitland never night O'Neile Court O'Neile's once Otway passed Phil Pierce O'Neile pity plagues of Ireland poor present priest remained round seemed seen shadow shure silence smile sorrow sound speak spot spurrit stood strange tell things thought threw tion tone took turned uncle voice watched wild wished woice woman wonder words yer honor young
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Page 17 - THE DAY IS DONE. THE day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight. I see the lights of the village Gleam through the rain and the mist, And a feeling of sadness comes o'er me, 'That my soul cannot resist: A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain.
Page 10 - SHE walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies ; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes : Thus mellow'd to that tender light Which Heaven to gaudy day denies.
Page 63 - Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn ; Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green : One only master grasps the whole domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain...
Page 195 - Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear ; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come, when it will come.
Page 47 - or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore ; But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping, And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you" — here I opened wide the door — Darkness there and nothing more.
Page 63 - No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, But, choked with sedges, works its weedy way. Along thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding bittern guards its nest; Amidst thy desert walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries. Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall; And trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away, thy children leave the land.
Page 175 - That in the antique Oratory shook His bosom in its solitude ; and then — As in that hour— a moment o'er his face The tablet of unutterable thoughts Was traced...
Page 142 - Yet, all its sad recollections suppressing, One dying wish my lone bosom can draw : Erin ! an exile bequeaths thee his blessing ! Land of my forefathers ! Erin go bragh ! Buried and cold, when my heart stills her motion, Green be thy fields, — sweetest isle of the ocean ! And thy harp-striking bards sing aloud with devotion, — Erin mavournin — Erin go bragh !* * Ireland my darling,— Ireland for ever.
Page 126 - But the old mansion, and the accustom'd hall, And the remember'd chambers, and the place, The day, the hour, the sunshine, and the shade, All things pertaining to that place and hour, And her who was his destiny, came back And thrust themselves between him and the light : What business had they there at such a time?
Page 250 - Oh! the last rays of feeling and life must depart, Ere the bloom of that valley shall fade from my heart. Yet it was not that nature had shed o'er the scene Her purest of crystal and brightest of green; 'twas not her soft magic of streamlet or hill, Oh!