Walks Through Ireland in the Years 1812, 1814, and 1817: Described in a Series of Letters to an English GentlemanSir R. Phillips and Company, 1819 - 599 pages |
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... looked less beauti- ful ; and I was willingly prevailed on to enter the cottage , where our breakfast was already pre- pared by the ever - ready and willing hand of Irish hospitality ! Our fatigue rendered it also ex- tremely pleasant ...
... looked less beauti- ful ; and I was willingly prevailed on to enter the cottage , where our breakfast was already pre- pared by the ever - ready and willing hand of Irish hospitality ! Our fatigue rendered it also ex- tremely pleasant ...
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... looked poor , but tolerably cultivated . We passed through Claghamon , a small village , and soon arrived at the Slaney , a very beautiful river which runs to Wexford , past Eamiscorthy . This charming stream rolled placidly on , and we ...
... looked poor , but tolerably cultivated . We passed through Claghamon , a small village , and soon arrived at the Slaney , a very beautiful river which runs to Wexford , past Eamiscorthy . This charming stream rolled placidly on , and we ...
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... looked coldly on , and never en- tirely or fully concurred . The most inflammatory writings and papers animated the people . The very worst principle , on which to establish revolution , -revenge - was too much and too efficaciously ...
... looked coldly on , and never en- tirely or fully concurred . The most inflammatory writings and papers animated the people . The very worst principle , on which to establish revolution , -revenge - was too much and too efficaciously ...
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... looked . The aisles and arches afford beautiful specimens of the Gothic . The windows we thought remarkably handsome . The abbey was well enclosed , and good gates at different entrances . A very ancient tomb is to be seen near the ...
... looked . The aisles and arches afford beautiful specimens of the Gothic . The windows we thought remarkably handsome . The abbey was well enclosed , and good gates at different entrances . A very ancient tomb is to be seen near the ...
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... looked the cottages of a starving and oppressed tenantry ; but we found ourselves among a sub- stantial yeomanry , each of them lord of his rural territory , and giving a faint idea of glo- rious old England ! Their contiguity to the ...
... looked the cottages of a starving and oppressed tenantry ; but we found ourselves among a sub- stantial yeomanry , each of them lord of his rural territory , and giving a faint idea of glo- rious old England ! Their contiguity to the ...
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Page 44 - Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village Hampden that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th...
Page 504 - Or seeks the den where snow-tracks mark the way And drags the struggling savage into day. At night returning, every labour sped, He sits him down the monarch of a shed ; Smiles by his cheerful fire, and round surveys His children's looks that brighten at the blaze , While his loved partner, boastful of her hoard Displays her cleanly platter on the board ; And haply too some pilgrim, thither led, With many a tale repays the nightly bed.
Page 132 - Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude Forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Page 504 - Where the bleak Swiss their stormy mansion tread, And force a churlish soil for scanty bread; No product here the barren hills afford, But man and steel, the soldier and his sword...
Page 504 - Cheerful at morn, he wakes from short repose, Breathes the keen air, and carols as he goes...
Page 219 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Page 420 - In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell, Aspiring to be angels, men rebel ; And who but wishes to invert the laws Of Order, sins against th
Page 504 - Though poor the peasant's hut, his feasts though small, He sees his little lot the lot of all; Sees no contiguous palace rear its head, To shame the meanness of his humble shed; No costly lord the sumptuous banquet deal, To make him loathe his vegetable meal...
Page 541 - England to confer with her Majesty about the affairs of this kingdom. " These differences were occasioned by the several alterations which had happened in ecclesiastical matters within the compass of twelve years.