The Earls of Kildare, and Their Ancestors: From 1057 to 1773Hodges, Smith & Company, 1858 - 91 pages |
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Page 129 - Bright is her hue, and Geraldine she hight; Hampton me taught to wish her first for mine, And Windsor, alas, doth chase me from her sight. Her beauty, of kind; her virtues, from above; Happy is he that can obtain her love.
Page 286 - Lord Kildare is married to the charming Lady Emily Lenox, who went the very next day to see her sister Lady Caroline Fox, to the great mortification of the haughty Duchessmother. They have not given her a shilling, but the King endows her, by making Lord Kildare a Viscount Sterling...
Page 128 - Tuscan came my lady's worthy race, Fair Florence was sometime her ancient seat, The western isle whose pleasant shore doth face Wild Camber's cliffs did give her lively heat; Fostered she was with milk of Irish breast, Her sire an earl, her dame of princes' blood; From tender years in Britain she doth rest With king's child, where she tasteth costly food.
Page 3 - Ye, Geraldines ! ye Geraldines ! how royally ye reigned O'er Desmond broad and rich Kildare, and English arts disdained: Your sword made knights, your banner waved, free was your bugle call By Glyn's green slopes and Dingle's tide, from Barrow's banks to Youghal.
Page 105 - Yet had you," continued the haughty favourite, "lost a cow or a horse of your owne, two hundred of your retayners would have come at your whistle to rescue the prey from the uttermost edge of Ulster. The Earl ! nay, the King of Kildare ; for when you are disposed, you reigne more like than rule the land...
Page 299 - I was excessively amused on Tuesday night ; there was a play at Holland House, acted by children ; not all children, for lady Sarah Lenox and lady Susan Strangways played the women. It was Jane Shore ; Mr.
Page 68 - There is also a relation of ours in these parts called the Earl of Desmond, under whose lordship there are 100 miles, in length, of country. Our house has increased beyond measure, in a multitude of barons, knights, and noble persons, holding many possessions, and having under their command many persons. We are most desirous to know the deeds of our ancestors, so that if you have in your possession any history, we request you to communicate it to us. We wish to know the origin of our house, and their...
Page 68 - Kildare, holding divers castles and manors, and by the liberality of our most serene lord the King of England, I am now his deputy in the whole of Ireland, during the pleasure of his majesty; an honour frequently obtained, heretofore, by my father and my predecessors. There is also a relation of ours in these parts, called the Earl of Desmond, under whose lordship there are 100 miles, in length, of country. Our house has increased beyond measure, in a multitude of barons, knights, and noble persons,...
Page 292 - As it has ever been my constant wish, in every station of life in which I have acted, to prefer the milder method of conciliation and union to the harsher one of punishment and separation, I shall with great willingness undertake the task, however difficult it may be, which his Majesty has prescribed to me, of using my utmost endeavours to conciliate and unite those two (at present) very disunited parties — I mean the Kildares and Ponsonbys. This is the only step of conciliation that seems to me...
Page 309 - Every native of that country was enjoined against using that word, or " other words like or otherwise contrary to the king's laws, his crown and dignity and peace, but to call on St. George, or the name of his Sovereign Lord, the King of England, for the time being...