Researches in the South of Ireland: Illustrative of the Scenery, Architectural Remains, and the Manners and Superstitions of the Peasantry |
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... once ingenious and absurd . Whether the matter of such old chronicles be false or true , there is now little to be gleaned from those repositories of monkish labour , either of an amusing or an instructive nature . I have made use of ...
... once ingenious and absurd . Whether the matter of such old chronicles be false or true , there is now little to be gleaned from those repositories of monkish labour , either of an amusing or an instructive nature . I have made use of ...
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... once numerous and endowed with superior talents , supported by a volunteer army fifty thousand strong , demanded a free trade and a free constitution . Lord North was then Prime Minister of England , humiliated by the success of the ...
... once numerous and endowed with superior talents , supported by a volunteer army fifty thousand strong , demanded a free trade and a free constitution . Lord North was then Prime Minister of England , humiliated by the success of the ...
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... once a correct and poetical picture of the south - west coast of Ireland . The neighbourhood of the rivers Lee and Blackwater are highly cultivated , and afford the most favourable combinations of objects and forms . Opposed to their ...
... once a correct and poetical picture of the south - west coast of Ireland . The neighbourhood of the rivers Lee and Blackwater are highly cultivated , and afford the most favourable combinations of objects and forms . Opposed to their ...
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... once asked a publisher , about to produce some Irish views : -the reply was , If your dedica- tion is prompted by gratitude , I know of no one more deserving it than Oliver Cromwell , whose cannon has made so many dilapidated buildings ...
... once asked a publisher , about to produce some Irish views : -the reply was , If your dedica- tion is prompted by gratitude , I know of no one more deserving it than Oliver Cromwell , whose cannon has made so many dilapidated buildings ...
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... once met by one Mr. Jeremiah Coughlan , an undoubted gentleman of the real ould stock , ' who gave him , with the advice of never being ashamed of his own country , a sound drubbing . " Here pointed the moral of her tale , a contrivance ...
... once met by one Mr. Jeremiah Coughlan , an undoubted gentleman of the real ould stock , ' who gave him , with the advice of never being ashamed of his own country , a sound drubbing . " Here pointed the moral of her tale , a contrivance ...
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Abbey amongst ancient appearance arms became Bishop Blackwater Blarney brother Buttevant cabin called Captain Castle cause chapel Charles Charleville church Cloyne command Cork Harbour county Cork county Limerick dear death Doneraile Dublin Earl of Desmond endeavoured England English estates fairy father favour fear feeling Fermoy fire former gentleman ground harbour head honour horse inscription Ireland Irish island James Kerry Kilmallock King lake land letter Limerick Lismore Lismore Castle Lord Broghill Lord Cork Lord Deputy Lord Muskery Mac Carty Macroom Mallow miles Miss Brooke mountains Munster night numerous Ormond party peasantry person poor possession present priest Raleigh Rapparees rebellion rebels remains Richard Cox river road Roche rock ruin side soldiers soon south of Ireland spirit stone Summerseat tion told tomb town troops village walls Wexford William woman Youghall young
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Page 207 - Within a long recess there lies a bay : An island shades it from the rolling sea, And forms a port secure for ships to ride : Broke by the jutting land on either side, In double streams the briny waters glide, Betwixt two rows of rocks : a sylvan scene Appears above, and groves for ever green : A grot is form'd beneath, with mossy seats, To rest the Nereids, and exclude the heats.
Page 198 - There is a faith that overcomes the world, and there is a faith that is overcome by the world...
Page 143 - At morning and at evening both, You merry were and glad, So little care of...
Page 178 - Scully ! thou false one, You basely betrayed him, In his strong hour of need, When thy right hand should aid him. He fed thee — he clad thee — You had all could delight thee : You left him — you sold him — May heaven requite thee...
Page 74 - ... they could find them, yea, and one another soon after; insomuch, as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves, and if they found a plot of water-cresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue there withal ; that in short space there was none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast*.
Page 179 - Scully ! may all kinds Of evil attend thee ! On thy dark road of life May no kind one befriend thee ! May fevers long burn thee, And agues long freeze thee ! May the strong hand of God In His red anger seize thee ! Had he died calmly I...
Page 85 - Faerie thee unweeting reft, There as thou slepst in tender swadling band, And her base elfin brood there for thee left. Such men do chaungelings call, so chaung'd by Faeries theft.
Page 108 - Sometimes, misguided by the tuneful throng, I look for streams immortalized in song, That lost in silence and oblivion lie (Dumb are their fountains and their channels dry), Yet run for ever by the Muse's skill, And in the smooth description murmur still.
Page 260 - The travellers into the East tell us, that when the ignorant inhabitants of those countries are asked concerning the ruins of stately edifices yet remaining amongst them, the melancholy monuments of their former grandeur and long-lost science, they always answer, that they were built by magicians.
Page 51 - Memento mory. Here lieth littell Samuell Barinton that great under taker of famous cittis clock and chime maker He made his one time goe early and latter but now he is returned to God his creator: the 19 of November then he scest and for his memory this here is pleast by his son Ben. 1693.