The Last Earl of Desmond:: A Historical Romance of 1599-1603. ... In Two Volumes. ...Hodges and Smith, 104, Grafton-Street., 1854 - Ireland |
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... marked his countenance , when your head was down , and its sudden change when you looked up " " What kind of expression was it ? " " It would be hard to describe it to you , in words , but it was one of vindictive triumph , the triumph ...
... marked his countenance , when your head was down , and its sudden change when you looked up " " What kind of expression was it ? " " It would be hard to describe it to you , in words , but it was one of vindictive triumph , the triumph ...
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... Silence — a silence like a spell - seized hold of every tongue and limb of that talking , laughing , moving mass , as Hugh O'Neill stood before them . A deep scar across the brow marked that warlike chief 38 THE LAST EARL OF DESMOND .
... Silence — a silence like a spell - seized hold of every tongue and limb of that talking , laughing , moving mass , as Hugh O'Neill stood before them . A deep scar across the brow marked that warlike chief 38 THE LAST EARL OF DESMOND .
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... marked that warlike chief , the Robert Bruce of Irish history . " My Lords , and fellow - countrymen , ” said Tyrone , " we are here assembled to decide , and to decide promptly , on the wisest and most effective measures for resisting ...
... marked that warlike chief , the Robert Bruce of Irish history . " My Lords , and fellow - countrymen , ” said Tyrone , " we are here assembled to decide , and to decide promptly , on the wisest and most effective measures for resisting ...
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... marked a distinction between ambition and honour as there is between the means and the object . The President , as we have seen , was an ambitious , but not an honourable man . " A soldier without ambition is like a knight without his ...
... marked a distinction between ambition and honour as there is between the means and the object . The President , as we have seen , was an ambitious , but not an honourable man . " A soldier without ambition is like a knight without his ...
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... marked the pale faces of the servants , who shook their heads at each other , and looked down on him as a haunted and doomed man , as one who had heard and seen the Banshee . The apparition had rushed , as Stack said , into the Earl's ...
... marked the pale faces of the servants , who shook their heads at each other , and looked down on him as a haunted and doomed man , as one who had heard and seen the Banshee . The apparition had rushed , as Stack said , into the Earl's ...
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The Last Earl of Desmond [By C.B. Gibson] Charles Bernard Gibson,James Fitz-Thomas No preview available - 2018 |
The Last Earl of Desmond: A Historical Romance of 1599-1603 V1 (1854) Charles Bernard Gibson No preview available - 2009 |
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abbey Archer arms asked beautiful believe brow called Captain castle child Church Countess of Desmond cousin cunning daughter Dermot doubt Earl of Desmond Earl of Ormond Earl's Edmund Spenser Elizabeth Ellen English eyes face fair father fear feel Fitzgibbon girl groom hand harp harper head hear heard heart honour horse Hugh O'Neill inquired Ireland Irish James Fitz-Thomas Jephson Jesuit John Nugent Kerry lady letter looked Lord President lordship Mac Carthy Mac Rory Mallow Mallow Castle marriage master Maurice mind Miss Cavendish mother Munster never noble O'Dugan O'More O'Neill old priest Ormond Castle poet Protestant Queen reader rebels Redmond Burke religion replied the Earl rivirence seemed servant Sir George Carew Sir Thomas Norreys smile soldier soul speak Spenser Sugane Earl sword tell thee thou thought told turned Tyrone uncle White Knight wife wild woman words wounded young Earl
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Page 280 - Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to virtue's side; But in his duty, prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all; And, as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
Page 252 - How can I, except some man should guide me ? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him. The place of the scripture which he read was this. He was led as a sheep to the slaughter : and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth: In his humiliation his judgment was taken away : and who shall declare his generation ? for his life is taken from the earth. And the eunuch answered Philip, and said, I pray thee, of whom speaketh the prophet this ? of himself, or of...
Page 252 - And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him.
Page 253 - And there appeared a great wonder in heaven ; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars.
Page 249 - Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place ; Did never mortal eye behold such heavenly grace.
Page 177 - A lovely Ladie rode him faire beside, Upon a lowly Asse more white than snow, Yet she much whiter ; but the same did hide Under a vele, that wimpled was full low...
Page 178 - So pure and innocent, as that same lambe, She was in life and every vertuous lore ; And by descent from Royall lynage came Of ancient Kinges and Queenes, that had of yore Their scepters stretcht from East to Westerne shore...
Page 267 - Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
Page 250 - But he, my Lyon, and my noble Lord, How does he find in cruell hart to hate Her, that him lov'd, and ever most adord As the God of my life ? why hath he me abhord ? " Redounding teares did choke th...