A Narrative of an Excursion to Ireland, by the Deputy Governor, Two Members of the Court, and the Assistant Secretary of the Honorable Irish Society, of London, 18251825 - 103 oldal |
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7. oldal
... feet in height , and resembles the famous one at Alcantara , which supplies Lisbon with water . Each arch is forty - five feet wide , and the entire length of the structure is 988 feet . A boat passed over at the time we were looking at ...
... feet in height , and resembles the famous one at Alcantara , which supplies Lisbon with water . Each arch is forty - five feet wide , and the entire length of the structure is 988 feet . A boat passed over at the time we were looking at ...
12. oldal
... feet , on the top of Snowdon ; and so it is to have kissed the Pope's toe , or to have stolen a bit of gold fringe , or a tassel , from the bed of the Ex - Empress Josephine ; a theft which few English travellers omitted , when they had ...
... feet , on the top of Snowdon ; and so it is to have kissed the Pope's toe , or to have stolen a bit of gold fringe , or a tassel , from the bed of the Ex - Empress Josephine ; a theft which few English travellers omitted , when they had ...
14. oldal
... feet from the points of suspension ; the road way will be about 100 feet from high water . We saw but little of the next stage of 13 miles , having slept the greatest part of the way , and it was twenty minutes past two when we arrived ...
... feet from the points of suspension ; the road way will be about 100 feet from high water . We saw but little of the next stage of 13 miles , having slept the greatest part of the way , and it was twenty minutes past two when we arrived ...
16. oldal
... feet long , and fronting the north , a most desirable aspect in the hot weather ; and it also commanded a view of the extensive Gardens of Trinity College . After taking possession , and seeing the luggage disposed in our different ...
... feet long , and fronting the north , a most desirable aspect in the hot weather ; and it also commanded a view of the extensive Gardens of Trinity College . After taking possession , and seeing the luggage disposed in our different ...
18. oldal
... a square tapering shaft , about twelve feet high !! surmounted by a regal crown . It is so diminutive , that it looks at a distance , like a big constable's staff , set up to frighten the beggars . I wish it had that 18.
... a square tapering shaft , about twelve feet high !! surmounted by a regal crown . It is so diminutive , that it looks at a distance , like a big constable's staff , set up to frighten the beggars . I wish it had that 18.
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A Narrative of an Excursion to Ireland: By the Deputy Governor, Two Members ... Gilpin Gorst,Irish Society London Nincs elérhető előnézet - 2009 |
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admirable arrived Bagpipe Balbriggan Ballymoney Bann Barsac Basalt Bath beautiful Belfast Beresford boat breakfast bridge built called carriage Carrickfergus Castle cascade Castle Causeway cliff Coleraine columnar Corwen cottage Currie Dargle Deputy dine dinner Drinkald drove Dublin DUNLUCE CASTLE enquired feet fish Florence Court four Glen Granite ground half half-past hill horses Hotel Ireland Irish JUNE ladies Lake Leixlip limestone LLYN OGWEN London looking Lord Lough Neagh Lucan Merrion Square miles minutes past morning Mountains Mourne Mountains nearly neat Ochre Ogwen ordered ourselves party passed peep Pier pillars Pleskin Porphyritic quarter returned River RIVER BANN road side rocks rocky round tower Salmon leap says Schultes seat seemed seen shilling Society specimens square Staffa stone street taste thing took town trees village walked Whiskey Wicklow wood
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31. oldal - Nae cotillon brent new frae France, But hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels Put life and mettle in their heels. A winnock-bunker in the east, There sat auld Nick in shape o...
25. oldal - Aloft, the ash and warrior oak Cast anchor in the rifted rock...
103. oldal - That it is fit that his lordship do endeavour with his majesty's forces to wound, kill, slay, and destroy, by all the ways and means he may, all the said rebels, and their adherents and relievers ; and burn, spoil, waste, consume, destroy, and demolish, all the places, towns, and houses, where the said rebels are, or have been, relieved and harboured, and all the hay and corn there ; and kill and destroy all the men there inhabiting able to bear arms.'!!.
11. oldal - In a morning up we rise, Ere Aurora's peeping : Drink a cup to wash our eyes, Leave the sluggard sleeping : Then we go To and fro, With our knacks At our backs, To such streams As the Thames, If we have the leisure. When we please to walk abroad For our recreation, In the fields...
97. oldal - Verney, the colonels Warren, Fleming and Byrne, were killed in cold blood; and indeed all the officers, except some few of least consideration, that escaped by miracle.. The Marquis of Ormond, in his letters to the king and lord Byron, says, ' that on this occasion Cromwell exceeded himself and. any...
70. oldal - Concise view of the origin, constitution, and proceedings of the honourable society of the governor and assistants of London, of the new plantation in Ulster.
97. oldal - officers and soldiers of Cromwell's army promised quarter to such as would lay down their " arms, and performed it as long as any place held out, which encouraged others to yield.
28. oldal - On gilded clouds in fair expansion lie, And bring all paradise before your eye. To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, Who never mentions hell to ears polite.
13. oldal - Java's palmy isle, A spacious plain extends its upland scene, Rocks rise on rocks, and fountains gush between; Soft zephyrs blow, eternal summers reign, And showers prolific bless the soil, — in vain! — No spicy nutmeg scents the vernal gales, Nor towering...
98. oldal - On this occasion Cromwell exceeded himself, and any thing he had ever heard of in breach of faith and bloody inhumanity; the cruelties exercised there for five days after the town was taken, would make as many several pictures of inhumanity as are to be found in the book of Martyrs, or in the relation of Amboyna...