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... rocks assumed a clothing of less sombre hue . My road lay along the shores of lakes , and by the brink of a narrow but most rapid river . There were no signs of human life around me , and it was only by the occasional cry of a wild bird ...
... rocks assumed a clothing of less sombre hue . My road lay along the shores of lakes , and by the brink of a narrow but most rapid river . There were no signs of human life around me , and it was only by the occasional cry of a wild bird ...
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... rock hid him from my view , and passing onward I saw the Arab of the air no more . After a ride of some four miles I emerged " upon what is called by the natives a public road , and truly enough upon it I began to see some proof that in ...
... rock hid him from my view , and passing onward I saw the Arab of the air no more . After a ride of some four miles I emerged " upon what is called by the natives a public road , and truly enough upon it I began to see some proof that in ...
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... rock , against whose surface I had leant when , standing with Phil Maguire by my side , I had lis- tened to his regretful words . It looked silent and sorrowful enough now , that mass of Nature's masonry , with the small - leaved ivy ...
... rock , against whose surface I had leant when , standing with Phil Maguire by my side , I had lis- tened to his regretful words . It looked silent and sorrowful enough now , that mass of Nature's masonry , with the small - leaved ivy ...
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... rocks we strug- gled onward , till we found ourselves in a small apartment ( if so it may be called ) of oblong shape ; and so low , that only in one , and that a small portion of it , could a man of Philip's height have stood upright ...
... rocks we strug- gled onward , till we found ourselves in a small apartment ( if so it may be called ) of oblong shape ; and so low , that only in one , and that a small portion of it , could a man of Philip's height have stood upright ...
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... rocks beneath , the hunted man had trodden ! Creeping on , in snake - like fashion , among the heather , the height of which had concealed him . from our view , he must after that fashion have gained the ledge , and there he must have ...
... rocks beneath , the hunted man had trodden ! Creeping on , in snake - like fashion , among the heather , the height of which had concealed him . from our view , he must after that fashion have gained the ledge , and there he must have ...
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Page 254 - ... ere one year and a half they were brought to such wretchedness as that any stony heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they looked like anatomies of death ; they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves...
Page 264 - And the steps of the bearers, heavy and slow, And the sobs of the mourners deep and low; The weary sound and the heavy breath, And the silent motions of passing death, And the smell, cold, oppressive, and dank, Sent through the pores of the coffin plank...
Page 254 - ... after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue there withal; that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast...
Page 275 - Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through nature up to nature's God...
Page 193 - England, and done real Kindness to the Irish. But the same Work is near four times as hard now to be done as then ; but it might be done, even now, with advantage to all Parties. Whereas* there are now 300 M.
Page 193 - Women were in one year, and | the next transported into England, and disposed of one to each Parish, and as many English brought back and married to the Irish, as would improve their Dwelling but to an House and Garden of 3 l.
Page 200 - Shannon, on pain of death ; and this sen" tence of deportation was rigidly enforced until " the Restoration. Their ancient possessions were " seized and given up to the conquerors ; as were " the possessions of every man, who had taken a " part in the rebellion, or followed the fortunes of " the king, after the murder of Charles the Jirst. " This whole fund was distributed among the offi...
Page 200 - Connaught, which had been completely depopulated and laid waste during the progress of the rebellion. They were ordered to retire there by a certain day, and forbidden to repass the river Shannon on pain of death: and this Sentence of deportation was rigidly enforced till the Restoration.
Page 193 - Irish live in a brutish nasty Condition, as in Cabins, with neither Chimney, Door, Stairs nor Window ; feed chiefly upon Milk and Potatoes, whereby their Spirits are not dispos'd for War.
Page 200 - His (Cromwell's) first act was to collect all the native Irish who had survived the general desolation and remained in the country, and to transplant them into the province of Connaught, which had been completely depopulated and laid waste in the progress of the rebellion. They were ordered to retire...