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... chief and kerne ; Yet noble was the cheer within the halls so rudely won , And gen'rous was the steel - gloved hand that had such slaughter done . " You will picture , too , these chiefs and kernes as they practised the lex talionis ...
... chief and kerne ; Yet noble was the cheer within the halls so rudely won , And gen'rous was the steel - gloved hand that had such slaughter done . " You will picture , too , these chiefs and kernes as they practised the lex talionis ...
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... chiefs , and come hither , and behold a prospect fair beyond any even our own beloved Albion can show . See , as the moon tips those tree tops , a thin cloud passes before her face , and tinges the faint outline of the distant Foy , and ...
... chiefs , and come hither , and behold a prospect fair beyond any even our own beloved Albion can show . See , as the moon tips those tree tops , a thin cloud passes before her face , and tinges the faint outline of the distant Foy , and ...
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... chief of the M'Gennisses , and rightful Lord of Iveagh mine , like many a haughtier house , was forced to bow after a brave resistance , to the conqueror ; but why speak of its fall , while our hearts are filled with a weighty sorrow ...
... chief of the M'Gennisses , and rightful Lord of Iveagh mine , like many a haughtier house , was forced to bow after a brave resistance , to the conqueror ; but why speak of its fall , while our hearts are filled with a weighty sorrow ...
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... chief of that family , and owner of Rosstrevor , David Robert Ross , M.P. , we have already spoken . Although the title of the Barons of Dungannon ended on the plains of Almanza , the Trevor family was not extinct , but D passed on ...
... chief of that family , and owner of Rosstrevor , David Robert Ross , M.P. , we have already spoken . Although the title of the Barons of Dungannon ended on the plains of Almanza , the Trevor family was not extinct , but D passed on ...
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... chief upheld these armed halls , Doing his evil will , nor less elate Than mightier heroes of a longer date . " The building offers a perpetual theme for the pencil of the artist , and is taken from a great variety of points - the one ...
... chief upheld these armed halls , Doing his evil will , nor less elate Than mightier heroes of a longer date . " The building offers a perpetual theme for the pencil of the artist , and is taken from a great variety of points - the one ...
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Page 257 - That a claim of any body of men, other than the king, lords, and commons of Ireland to make laws to bind this kingdom, is unconstitutional, illegal, and a grievance.
Page 237 - Sword; was appointed ambassador to the court of Lisbon in 1806, to Sweden in 1817, to Constantinople in 1820, and to Russia in 1825 ; is author of " Poems from the Portuguese of...
Page 1 - ... improving, and beautifying the human hair. It prevents hair from falling off or turning grey, strengthens weak hair, cleanses it from scurf and dandriff, and makes it beautifully soft, pliable, and glossy. For children it is especially...
Page 21 - COMB back, come back together, All ye fancies of the past, Ye days of April weather, Ye shadows that are cast By the haunted hours before ! Come back, come back, my childhood ; Thou art summoned by a spell From the green leaves of the wild wood, From beside the charmed well ! For Red Riding Hood, the darling, — The flower of fairy lore.
Page 33 - In the descent southward, near the bottom, one is forced to slide down a sort of thatch, composed of furze, long grass, and juniper. St. Donard, a disciple of St. Patrick, is said to have spent the life of a hermit on this mountain, and built a cell, or oratory, on the top of it, towards the close of the fifth century.
Page 160 - And no spectacle was more frequent in the ditches of towns, and especially in wasted countries, than to see multitudes of these poor people dead with their mouths all coloured green by eating nettles, docks, and all things they could rend up above ground.
Page 255 - ... inviolable, and to deliver up the succession peaceably to his Tanist, and then hath a wand delivered unto him by some whose proper office that is; after which, descending from the stone, he turneth himself round, thrice forwards and thrice backwards. Eudox. But how is the Tanist chosen? Iren. They say he setteth but one foot upon the stone, and receiveth the like oath that the captaine did.
Page 14 - A day with not too bright a beam, A warm, but not a scorching sun, A southern gale to curl the stream, And, master, half our work is done.
Page 1 - DENTIFRICE, Compounded of the choicest and most recherche ingredients of the ORIENTAL HERBAL, and of inestimable value in PRESERVING AND BEAUTIFYING THE TEETH, STRENGTHENING THE GUMS, and in rendering THE BREATH SWEET AND PURE. Price 2s. 9d. per Box. CAUTION ! — The words " ROWLANDS' ODOMTO