Paddiana: Or, Scraps and Sketches of Irish Life, Present and Past, Volume 2R. Bentley, 1847 - Ireland |
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... in the prayer , and then holding firmly by the railing , extended his other hand to prevent the prisoner following his example . There was an audible laugh at the priest's agility , in which I have B 2 EXECUTIONS . 9.
... in the prayer , and then holding firmly by the railing , extended his other hand to prevent the prisoner following his example . There was an audible laugh at the priest's agility , in which I have B 2 EXECUTIONS . 9.
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... hands ; and when he looked again , there was nothing but a small old stump of a tree where the vision had disappeared . How Mr. Maher , of Bantry , thought to enter the house one sum- mer evening , when , behold ! as the boat ap ...
... hands ; and when he looked again , there was nothing but a small old stump of a tree where the vision had disappeared . How Mr. Maher , of Bantry , thought to enter the house one sum- mer evening , when , behold ! as the boat ap ...
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... hand under my clothes . How long I should have remained fascinated it is impossible to say , but at last the figure spoke . It said , in a clear and somewhat peremptory tone , - " What the divle are ye doing here , at all ? Sure I ...
... hand under my clothes . How long I should have remained fascinated it is impossible to say , but at last the figure spoke . It said , in a clear and somewhat peremptory tone , - " What the divle are ye doing here , at all ? Sure I ...
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... hands deeper into his sleeves , when the weather was frosty , or even mode- rately fresh ; but when the sun of July cast a varnish over Caffin's countenance , or the flies of a sultry August buzzed about his head , a slight impatience ...
... hands deeper into his sleeves , when the weather was frosty , or even mode- rately fresh ; but when the sun of July cast a varnish over Caffin's countenance , or the flies of a sultry August buzzed about his head , a slight impatience ...
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... hands , and are funny through the medium of tricks and grimaces . And the better to enable him to carry out his manual pleasantry , Nature had gifted him with a face of imperturbable sadness . It was the longest , most lonesome ...
... hands , and are funny through the medium of tricks and grimaces . And the better to enable him to carry out his manual pleasantry , Nature had gifted him with a face of imperturbable sadness . It was the longest , most lonesome ...
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Page 189 - ... they say, it is the fatal destiny of that land, that no purposes whatsoever which are meant for her good, will prosper or take good effect, which, whether it proceed from the very genius of the soil, or influence of the stars, or that Almighty God hath not yet appointed the time of her reformation, or that he reserveth her in this unquiet state still for some secret scourge, which shall by her come unto England, it is hard to be known, but yet much to be feared.
Page 37 - And the LORD opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times ? And Balaam said unto the ass, Because thou hast mocked me : I would there were a sword in mine hand, for now would I kill thee.
Page 173 - 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 174 - ... anatomies of death ; they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves; they did eat the dead carrions, happy where 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 watercresses or shamrocks, there they...
Page 169 - For the husbandman must first break the land before it be made capable of good seed: and when it is thoroughly broken and manured, if he do not forthwith cast good seed into it, it will grow wild again, and bear nothing but weeds. So a barbarous country must be first broken by a war, before it will be capable of good government; and when it is fully subdued and 'conquered, if it be not well planted and governed after the conquest, it will often return to the former barbarism.
Page 188 - Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious, and free, First flower of the earth, and first gem of the sea, I might hail thee with prouder, with happier brow, But oh ! could I love thee more deeply than now...
Page 9 - ... in by the priest who attended him, and whose cold, and as it appeared irreverent praying, extended to fully twenty minutes. It was dreadful to see a man stand smiling and nodding on the very brink of the grave, and the more so as again and again he calmly...
Page 142 - There is at this Day no Monument or real Argument that, when the Irish were first invaded, they had any...
Page 174 - ... 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 201 - I say that besides their savage brutishness and loathly filthiness, which is not to be named, they are fit masks as a mantle is for a thief, for whensoever he hath run himself into that peril of law that he will not be known, he either cutteth off his glib quite, by which he becometh nothing like himself, or pulleth it so low down over his eyes that it is very hard to discern his thievish countenance...