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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... recorded , it was because strange things were seen ; and if strange things were seen which no other writer has written , it was because no other writer has visited the same places , under the same circumstances . No other writer ever ...
... recorded , it was because strange things were seen ; and if strange things were seen which no other writer has written , it was because no other writer has visited the same places , under the same circumstances . No other writer ever ...
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... recorded which might better have been left out . In such a confused mass of material , of such variety and such quality , I am not so vain as to suppose that the best has always been selected or recorded in the best way . No originality ...
... recorded which might better have been left out . In such a confused mass of material , of such variety and such quality , I am not so vain as to suppose that the best has always been selected or recorded in the best way . No originality ...
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... recorded are doubted as impossible , come with me in the year 1850 and see the houseless wanderer dying in mountains and bogs , without food , without clothes , driven there by merciless landholders , who have fattened on soil wrested ...
... recorded are doubted as impossible , come with me in the year 1850 and see the houseless wanderer dying in mountains and bogs , without food , without clothes , driven there by merciless landholders , who have fattened on soil wrested ...
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... recorded that will not always be so salutary , yet be as- sured these truths are such as should be told , and they will not meet any cases mentioned in the above - in other language , they will not fit where they do not belong . My ...
... recorded that will not always be so salutary , yet be as- sured these truths are such as should be told , and they will not meet any cases mentioned in the above - in other language , they will not fit where they do not belong . My ...
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... recorded ; and should any of these facts appear exaggerated , let it be said that no language is adequate to give the true , the real picture ; one look of the eye into the daily scenes there witnessed , would overpower what any pen ...
... recorded ; and should any of these facts appear exaggerated , let it be said that no language is adequate to give the true , the real picture ; one look of the eye into the daily scenes there witnessed , would overpower what any pen ...
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Amhalgaidh ancient arms army Ballina battle beautiful Belfast blessed blood body bread cabin called Carrickfergus castle Castlebar catholics Charles christian church clergy Clonmel Connaught Cork Cromwell dead death declared Derry died Drogheda Dublin Earl enemy England English estates famine fearful fled give Gweedore hands head heart honour inhabitants Ireland Irish Irish army island James Killala killed king king of Leinster labour land landlords liberty lived look Lord Charlemont meal ment miles Mount Patrick mountains Munster nation never noble Nuncio O'Dowdas O'Neil officers Ormond parliament passed Patrick peace peasantry penal laws poor possession potatoe priests prince protestantism protestants Queen rebels religion Saint Scotch sent slain soldiers spirit stands starving stone stood suffering taken told took tower town Ulster United Irishmen Wexford whole William woman women Youghal
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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.