Ireland: Its Scenery, Character and History, Volumen3

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Francis A. Niccolls, 1911
 

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Página 305 - Now winding bright and full, with naked banks; And seats, and lawns, the Abbey and the wood, And cots, and hamlets, and faint city-spire; The Channel there, the Islands and white sails, Dim coasts, and cloud-like hills, and shoreless Ocean It seem'd like Omnipresence!
Página 260 - A weight of awe not easy to be borne Fell suddenly upon my spirit, cast From the dread bosom of the unknown past...
Página 153 - Catholics, condemned to beggary and to ignorance in their native land, have been obliged to learn the principles of letters, at the hazard of all their other principles, from the charity of your enemies.
Página 388 - where was a strong Castle very well manned and provided for by the Enemy; and, close under it, a very fair House belonging to the same worthy person, — a Monastery of Franciscan Friars, the considerablest in all Ireland: they ran away the night before we came. We summoned the Castle; and they refused to yield at the first ; but upon better consideration, they were willing to deliver the place to us : which accordingly they did ; leaving their...
Página 321 - To the house of William, my son. Hie all the wealth of Kilkenny town.
Página 331 - Go tell your master I despise his offer ; tell him that honour and conscience are dearer to a gentleman than all the wealth and titles a prince can bestow.
Página 288 - Has love to that soul, so tender. Been like our Lagenian mine, Where sparkles of golden splendour All over the surface shine...
Página 224 - At last he sat down, rested his elbows on his knees, and covered his face with his hands so as to shut out the scene altogether.
Página 315 - I would not exchange my dead son for any living son in Christendom.
Página 157 - It was a common practice with them to go in parties about the country, swearing many to be true to them, and forcing them to join by menaces, which they very often carried into execution. At last they set up to be general redressers of grievances — punished all obnoxious persons who advanced the value of lands, or...

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