Lives of illustrious ... Irishmen, ed. by J. Wills, Volume 2, Part 2 |
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... down to the battle of Clontarf ; a life of Brian Boroimhe ; a poem of an hundred
and sixty verses upon the descendants ... also three separate poems , lamenting
the fall of Brian , and strongly expressive of his own personal grief on the event ...
... down to the battle of Clontarf ; a life of Brian Boroimhe ; a poem of an hundred
and sixty verses upon the descendants ... also three separate poems , lamenting
the fall of Brian , and strongly expressive of his own personal grief on the event ...
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DIED A. D. 1072 . a GIOLLA CAOIMHGHIN , one of the most celebrated poets
and historians of his time , has left a variety of ... Another poem gives the names
of the ancestors of the chief line of the Gaels , from the dispersion at Babel to their
...
DIED A. D. 1072 . a GIOLLA CAOIMHGHIN , one of the most celebrated poets
and historians of his time , has left a variety of ... Another poem gives the names
of the ancestors of the chief line of the Gaels , from the dispersion at Babel to their
...
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He wrote two poems , one of them on the death of his brother Matthew , and the
other , extolling the power and extent of ... John O'DUGAN , chief poet of O'Kelly
of Ibh Maine , wrote a poem of five hundred and sixty - four verses , giving an ...
He wrote two poems , one of them on the death of his brother Matthew , and the
other , extolling the power and extent of ... John O'DUGAN , chief poet of O'Kelly
of Ibh Maine , wrote a poem of five hundred and sixty - four verses , giving an ...
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A perfect copy of this poem remains in the handwriting of Cucoigcriche O'Clery ,
one of the Four Masters . He also wrote a poem recording the kings of Leinster ,
descended from the thirty sons of Cathaoir Mor , monarch of Ireland , and another
...
A perfect copy of this poem remains in the handwriting of Cucoigcriche O'Clery ,
one of the Four Masters . He also wrote a poem recording the kings of Leinster ,
descended from the thirty sons of Cathaoir Mor , monarch of Ireland , and another
...
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This poem is stated , by Mr O'Reilly , who had a copy of it in his own possession ,
to be written “ in the Bearla Feine , or Phoenician dialect of the Irish , ” and
assigns as a reason for his selecting it , that “ the dialect of the plebeians was ...
This poem is stated , by Mr O'Reilly , who had a copy of it in his own possession ,
to be written “ in the Bearla Feine , or Phoenician dialect of the Irish , ” and
assigns as a reason for his selecting it , that “ the dialect of the plebeians was ...
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Page 378 - CALL it not vain: — they do not err, Who say that when the poet dies Mute Nature mourns her worshipper And celebrates his obsequies; Who say tall cliff and cavern lone For the departed bard make moan ; That mountains weep in crystal rill; That flowers in tears of balm distil; Through his loved groves that breezes sigh, And oaks in deeper groan reply, 10 And rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave.
Page 293 - The generall end therefore of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline...
Page 293 - Queene, being a continued allegory, or darke conceit, I have thought good, as well for avoyding of gealous opinions and misconstructions, as also for your better light in reading thereof (being so by you commanded), to discover unto you the general intention and meaning, which in the whole course thereof I have fashioned, without expressing of any particular purposes, or by-accidents therein occasioned.
Page 294 - ... by an Historiographer should be the twelfth booke, which is the last; where I devise that the Faery Queene kept her Annuall feaste xii.
Page 293 - I have followed all the antique Poets historicall ; first Homere, who in the Persons of Agamemnon and Ulysses hath ensampled a good governour and a vertuous man, the one in his Ilias, the other in his Odysseis : then Virgil, whose like intention was to doe in the person of...
Page 318 - He was deeply learned, without possessing useful knowledge; sagacious in many individual cases, without having real wisdom ; fond of his power, and desirous to maintain and augment it, yet willing to resign the direction of that and of himself, to the most unworthy favourites; a big and bold...
Page 295 - I have briefly overronne, to direct your understanding to the wel-head of the history, that from thence gathering the whole intention of the conceit, ye may, as in a handfull, gripe al the discourse, which otherwise may happily seeme tedious and confused. So humbly craving the continuance of your honourable favour towards me, and th' eternall establishment of your happines, I humbly take leave.
Page 295 - Ephes.) that he could not succeed in that enterprise : which being forth-with put upon him with due furnitures thereunto, he seemed the goodliest man in al that company, and was well liked of the Lady. And eftesoones taking on him knighthood, and mounting on that straunge Courser, he went forth with her on that adventure : where beginneth the first booke, viz.
Page 294 - In that Faery Queene I meane glory in my generall intention, but in my particular I conceive the most excellent and glorious person of our soveraine the Queene, and her kingdome in Faery Land.
Page 293 - I labour to pourtraict in Arthure, before he was king, the image of a brave knight, perfected in the twelve private morall vertues, as Aristotle hath devised...
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| Title | Lives of illustrious ... Irishmen, ed. by J. Wills, Volume 2, Part 2 Lives of illustrious ... Irishmen, ed. by J. Wills, James Wills |
| Author | Irishman |
| Editor | James Wills |
| Published | 1840 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 18 May 2006 |
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