Researches in the South of Ireland: Illustrative of the Scenery, Architectural Remains, and the Manners and Superstitions of the Peasantry |
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... poor people from earning a sum so easily , something more powerful than the want of taste for exploring -though it is certain they are , to use their own expression , " con- tint , " without much exertion . Nothing can be more difficult ...
... poor people from earning a sum so easily , something more powerful than the want of taste for exploring -though it is certain they are , to use their own expression , " con- tint , " without much exertion . Nothing can be more difficult ...
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... poor farmer from Cork to Mallow , I advised him to quicken the pace of his steed as the evening was closing in , and the lurid appearance of the sky foreboded a storm . " Sure then that I would with the greatest pleasure in life for the ...
... poor farmer from Cork to Mallow , I advised him to quicken the pace of his steed as the evening was closing in , and the lurid appearance of the sky foreboded a storm . " Sure then that I would with the greatest pleasure in life for the ...
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... poor cratur , the turnpike people get money enough for mending the roads , and bad luck to the bit of it they mend , but put it all in their pockets . " 66 What , the road ? " " Noe , your honour , the money . " To such as can bear with ...
... poor cratur , the turnpike people get money enough for mending the roads , and bad luck to the bit of it they mend , but put it all in their pockets . " 66 What , the road ? " " Noe , your honour , the money . " To such as can bear with ...
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... poor harm- less country people became victims to military legislation ; but the necessity is obvious that no quarter should be given to men who lurked in ambush , ready to spring on their prey at every favourable opportunity , and whose ...
... poor harm- less country people became victims to military legislation ; but the necessity is obvious that no quarter should be given to men who lurked in ambush , ready to spring on their prey at every favourable opportunity , and whose ...
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... place , which wears a poor appearance and seems to be little frequented by strangers , as the inn , if it deserves the name , included the business of publican , linendraper , hosier and chandler under the CHAP . III . 55 LIMERICK .
... place , which wears a poor appearance and seems to be little frequented by strangers , as the inn , if it deserves the name , included the business of publican , linendraper , hosier and chandler under the CHAP . III . 55 LIMERICK .
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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.