Lights and Shades of Ireland: In Three Parts. Part I.--Early History. Part II.--Saints, Kings, and Poets, of the Early Ages. Part. III.-The Famine of 1847, '48, & '49Houlston and Stoneman, 1850 - 444 páginas |
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... arms - Confederates - Private treaty - Public treaty - Pope's Nuncio - Character - Benburb battle - Nuncio pleased - Acts rashly - Ormond flees to Rome -Is called back - O'Neil treated as a rebel - The Nuncio dies with grief CHAPTER VI ...
... arms - Confederates - Private treaty - Public treaty - Pope's Nuncio - Character - Benburb battle - Nuncio pleased - Acts rashly - Ormond flees to Rome -Is called back - O'Neil treated as a rebel - The Nuncio dies with grief CHAPTER VI ...
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... arms , insubordination , and ignorance of military tactics , rendered them an easy prey to their enemies . The Normans were clad in steel , the horses as well as men , and Strongbow went on to conquest against the unarmed Irish , whose ...
... arms , insubordination , and ignorance of military tactics , rendered them an easy prey to their enemies . The Normans were clad in steel , the horses as well as men , and Strongbow went on to conquest against the unarmed Irish , whose ...
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... arms , and forty pages . " This army was reduced to forty archers and forty spears in 1478. This , then , was the formidable army the English maintained in Ire- land , at an expense of £ 600 . annually , which if Ireland could not pay ...
... arms , and forty pages . " This army was reduced to forty archers and forty spears in 1478. This , then , was the formidable army the English maintained in Ire- land , at an expense of £ 600 . annually , which if Ireland could not pay ...
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... arm of Jehovah , who , they assure you , led them forth to the battle . The catholics look tacitly on , but what their hearts feel may be better told , should they get the ascendancy - but let it be re- corded that all writers of ...
... arm of Jehovah , who , they assure you , led them forth to the battle . The catholics look tacitly on , but what their hearts feel may be better told , should they get the ascendancy - but let it be re- corded that all writers of ...
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... arms for 5000 men , he attacked the garrison of Limerick in Kerry , and they soon surrendered themselves to mercy , but quickly proved how cruel are the " tender mercies of the wicked , " for they were all ordered to be butchered ...
... arms for 5000 men , he attacked the garrison of Limerick in Kerry , and they soon surrendered themselves to mercy , but quickly proved how cruel are the " tender mercies of the wicked , " for they were all ordered to be butchered ...
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Página 388 - Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Página 389 - OH! BREATHE NOT HIS NAME. OH ! breathe not his name, let it sleep in the shade, Where cold and unhonour'd his relics are laid : Sad, silent, and dark, be the tears that we shed, As the night-dew that falls on the grass o'er his head.
Página 371 - She is far from the land where her young hero sleeps, And lovers around her are sighing; But coldly she turns from their gaze, and weeps, For her heart in his grave is lying.
Página 216 - For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Página 65 - I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment of God upon these barbarous wretches, who have imbrued their hands in so much innocent blood ; and that it will tend to prevent the effusion of blood for the future. Which are the satisfactory grounds to such actions, which, otherwise, cannot but work remorse and regret.
Página 64 - I forbade them to spare any that were in arms in the town: and, I think, that night they put to the sword about 2,000 men...
Página 392 - The Great Spirit is no respecter of persons; He has made of one blood all the nations of the earth; He loves all his children alike; and his highest attributes are love, mercy, and justice.
Página 67 - Town ; which our men perceiving, ran violently upon the Town with their ladders, and stormed it. And when they were come into the market-place, the Enemy making a stiff resistance, our forces brake them; and then put all to the sword that came in their way.
Página vi - THE harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls As if that soul were fled. So sleeps the pride of former days, So glory's thrill is o'er, And hearts that once beat high for praise Now feel that pulse no more.
Página 326 - EARTH, of man the bounteous mother, Feeds him still with corn and wine ; He who best would aid a brother, Shares with him these gifts divine.