The Irish Nation: Its History and Its Biography, Volume 1A. Fullarton, 1876 - Ireland |
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... head of sacred knowledge , until it became its tomb . But then , it was long left behind in the progress of nations , and lapsed into an obscurity bordering on oblivion . Such are the conditions of the strange problem , about the ...
... head of sacred knowledge , until it became its tomb . But then , it was long left behind in the progress of nations , and lapsed into an obscurity bordering on oblivion . Such are the conditions of the strange problem , about the ...
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... head and heart have been en- lightened and enlarged by true Christian philosophy . The sword which may haply lurk within the flowery wreath , while its occasional sparkles are seen to glitter through the fragrant interstices , may give ...
... head and heart have been en- lightened and enlarged by true Christian philosophy . The sword which may haply lurk within the flowery wreath , while its occasional sparkles are seen to glitter through the fragrant interstices , may give ...
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... head of those politi- cal institutions and arrangements , which are among the most interesting facts of Irish antiquity . Of these a few may be considered as useful preliminaries to our first biographical period . In the year of the ...
... head of those politi- cal institutions and arrangements , which are among the most interesting facts of Irish antiquity . Of these a few may be considered as useful preliminaries to our first biographical period . In the year of the ...
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... head of this name , and descended , in twenty lineal generations , from Brian Boromy , king of Ireland in the year 1014 . This nobleman left his estate , no inconsiderable one , but small in com- parison to the great possessions of his ...
... head of this name , and descended , in twenty lineal generations , from Brian Boromy , king of Ireland in the year 1014 . This nobleman left his estate , no inconsiderable one , but small in com- parison to the great possessions of his ...
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... head of Fergus . " Having thus come to a friendly understand ing , they proceeded together to Ely , where the preparations of Thady were now considerably advanced . The ancient bards describe , as poets will , the memorable battle of ...
... head of Fergus . " Having thus come to a friendly understand ing , they proceeded together to Ely , where the preparations of Thady were now considerably advanced . The ancient bards describe , as poets will , the memorable battle of ...
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Page 674 - Canace to wife, That owned the virtuous ring and glass, And of the wondrous horse of brass On which the Tartar king did ride; And if aught else great bards beside In sage and solemn tunes have sung, Of turneys, and of trophies hung, Of forests, and enchantments drear, Where more is meant than meets the ear.
Page 671 - To have thy asking, yet wait many years; To fret thy soul with crosses and with cares; To eat thy heart through comfortless despairs; To fawn, to crouch, to wait, to ride, to run, To spend, to give, to want, to be undone.
Page 672 - And blesses her with his two happy hands, How the red roses flush up in her cheeks, And the pure snow with goodly vermeil stain, Like crimson dyed in grain...
Page 679 - ... by an Historiographer should be the twelfth booke, which is the last; where I devise that the Faery Queene kept her Annuall feaste xii.
Page 6 - Irish language; but the world still remains as it was, doubtful and ignorant. What the Irish language is in itself, and to what languages it has affinity, are very interesting questions, which every man wishes to see resolved that has any philological or historical curiosity. Dr. Leland begins his history too late; the ages which deserve an exact inquiry are those times (for such there were) when Ireland was the school of the west, the quiet habitation of sanctity and literature.
Page 678 - The generall end therefore of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline...
Page 678 - I labour to pourtraict in Arthure, before he was king, the image of a brave knight, perfected in the twelve private morall vertues, as Aristotle hath devised...
Page 448 - 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 675 - To us, my friend, the times that are gone by Are a mysterious book, sealed with seven seals: That which you call the spirit of ages past Is but, in truth, the spirit of some few authors In which those ages are beheld reflected, "With what distortion strange heaven only knows.
Page 679 - For the methode of a poet historical is not such as of an historiographer. For an historiographer discourseth of affayres orderly as they were donne, accounting as well the times as the actions; but a poet thrusteth into the middest, even where it most concerneth him, and there recoursing to the thinges forepaste, and divining of thinges to come, maketh a pleasing analysis of all.