Ireland: Its Scenery, Character, &c, 3. kötetHow and Parsons, 1843 |
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15. oldal
... young girls plied their nimble fingers at knitting - and everybody was innocently busy . Now the golden peaceable age renewed ; no strife , contention , querulous lawyers , or Scottish or Irish feuds between clans and families , and ...
... young girls plied their nimble fingers at knitting - and everybody was innocently busy . Now the golden peaceable age renewed ; no strife , contention , querulous lawyers , or Scottish or Irish feuds between clans and families , and ...
17. oldal
... Young , handsome , eloquent , and of a presence so endearing that those who looked upon him once never forgot him ; he commanded esteem while he won affection . If he had been less engaging he would have been more fortunate , for then ...
... Young , handsome , eloquent , and of a presence so endearing that those who looked upon him once never forgot him ; he commanded esteem while he won affection . If he had been less engaging he would have been more fortunate , for then ...
21. oldal
... young fish ( grawl ) are destroyed in great numbers , about Dundrum Bay and Kilkeel , when they are totally unfit for any useful purpose . The River Bann was at one period famous for its pearl fishery , and pearls are still occasionally ...
... young fish ( grawl ) are destroyed in great numbers , about Dundrum Bay and Kilkeel , when they are totally unfit for any useful purpose . The River Bann was at one period famous for its pearl fishery , and pearls are still occasionally ...
44. oldal
... young men , who justly argued that so good a daughter would make a most admirable wife , she had done anything extraordinary : her invariable observation was , " ' Deed , and sure they're my own flesh and blood ; and if they were not ...
... young men , who justly argued that so good a daughter would make a most admirable wife , she had done anything extraordinary : her invariable observation was , " ' Deed , and sure they're my own flesh and blood ; and if they were not ...
50. oldal
... young hands , got into confusion , and she was forced to strike to the Ranger , after an action of one hour and fifteen minutes . The Drake had two men killed , and twenty - five wounded ; the Ranger three killed , and five wounded ...
... young hands , got into confusion , and she was forced to strike to the Ranger , after an action of one hour and fifteen minutes . The Drake had two men killed , and twenty - five wounded ; the Ranger three killed , and five wounded ...
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ancient Antrim appears Ballycastle Ballyshannon basalt beautiful Belfast building called Carrickfergus castle Castlebar Causeway century character child church Clifden Cluricaune coast comfortable Connamara cottage craythur Derry district Donegal Dublin English erected Evans eyes F. W. Fairholt fairies father feet flax formed Galway girl hand heard hill hundred improvement inhabitants Ireland Irish island John Killaloe king labour lake land linen Lisburn Londonderry looked Lord Lough Lough Corrib Lough Erne Lough Foyle Lough Neagh manufacture miles mountain natural nearly neighbourhood neighbours never Nicholl night Ordnance Survey passed peasantry persons picturesque plantation of Ulster poor population Presbyterian present remains render river road rock ruins says scenery shore side singular Society stands stone sure tenants tourist town Ulster walls whole wild woman workhouse
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288. oldal - In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs — and God has given my share — I still had hopes, my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down...
284. oldal - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree, While many a pastime circled in the shade...
296. oldal - Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
115. oldal - On Lough Neagh's bank as the fisherman strays, When the clear, cold eve's declining, He sees the round towers of other days, In the wave beneath him shining! Thus shall memory often, in dreams sublime, Catch a glimpse of the days that are over, Thus, sighing, look through the waves of time For the long-faded glories they cover!
287. oldal - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden -flower grows wild; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...
122. oldal - Dublin, resigned the prebendary of Kilroot, and obtained a grant of it for this new friend. When he gave the presentation to the poor clergyman, he kept his eyes steadily fixed on the old man's face, which, at first, only expressed pleasure at finding himself preferred to a living; but when he found that it was that of his benefactor, who had resigned in his favour, his joy assumed so touching an expression of surprise and gratitude, that Swift, himself deeply affected, declared he had never experienced...
172. oldal - Pleaskin is covered with a thin grassy sod, under which lies the natural basaltic rock, having generally a hard surface, somewhat cracked and shivered. At the depth of ten or twelve feet from the summit, this rock begins to assume a columnar tendency, and forms a range of massy pillars of basaltes, which stand perpendicular to the horizon, presenting, in the sharp face of the promontory, the appearance of a magnificent gallery, or colonnade, upwards of sixty feet in height. This...
234. oldal - ... of the countrey inviolable, and to deliver up the succession peaceably to his Tanist, and then hath a wand delivered unto him by some whose proper office that is ; after which, descending from the stone, he turneth himself round, thrice forwards and thrice backwards. " Eudox. But how is the Tanist chosen ? " Iren. They say he setteth but one foot upon the stone, and receiveth the like oath that the captaine did.
175. oldal - Pier the war of tempests braves, A far-projecting, firm basaltic way Of clustering columns wedged in dense array; With skill so like, yet so surpassing art, With such design, so just in every part, That reason pauses, doubtful if it stand The work of mortal, or immortal hand.
122. oldal - ... was that of his benefactor, who had resigned in his favour, his joy assumed so touching an expression of surprise and gratitude, that Swift, himself deeply affected, declared he had never experienced so much pleasure as at that moment. The poor clergyman, at Swift's departure, pressed upon him the black mare, which he did not choose to hurt him by refusing; and thus mounted, for the first time, on a horse of his own, with fourscore pounds in his purse, Swift again embarked for England, and resumed...