Sketches in Ireland: Descriptive of Interesting, and Hitherto Unnoticed Districts, in the North and SouthW. Curry, jun. and Company, 1827 - 411 pagina's |
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Pagina 2
... hills -the iron cliffs that breast the Atlantic Ocean - our mountain ranges - the lake , the glen , the rushing river - these may afford subjects of surprise and excitement to your discursive mind ; and after our day's ramble is over ...
... hills -the iron cliffs that breast the Atlantic Ocean - our mountain ranges - the lake , the glen , the rushing river - these may afford subjects of surprise and excitement to your discursive mind ; and after our day's ramble is over ...
Pagina 3
... hill and valley , all acclivity and declivity . Driv- ing along the new line of road that winds around these never - ending hills , you seldom see for a quarter of a mile before you . At first you are struck with the beauty of these ...
... hill and valley , all acclivity and declivity . Driv- ing along the new line of road that winds around these never - ending hills , you seldom see for a quarter of a mile before you . At first you are struck with the beauty of these ...
Pagina 4
... hills , woods , bogs , and defiles , often to defy , and always to elude his invaders . Ma- dame de la Roche - Jacquelin , in her most interesting Memoir of the War in La Vendée , describes that country as very similar in its hills ...
... hills , woods , bogs , and defiles , often to defy , and always to elude his invaders . Ma- dame de la Roche - Jacquelin , in her most interesting Memoir of the War in La Vendée , describes that country as very similar in its hills ...
Pagina 5
... hills almost inaccessible , every ligature and joint of my poor body nearly jaunted into dislocation . However , cordial hospitality , a soft bed , and a day's quiet , repaired and restored me so far as to enable us to begin our ...
... hills almost inaccessible , every ligature and joint of my poor body nearly jaunted into dislocation . However , cordial hospitality , a soft bed , and a day's quiet , repaired and restored me so far as to enable us to begin our ...
Pagina 6
... hills ? " " It is called Lough Salt . " " Why Lough ? that is the Irish for a lake , not of a mountain ; I sup- pose ... hill , which my friend informed me was until lately the only pass that led from Dublin , or from Derry to Ards ...
... hills ? " " It is called Lough Salt . " " Why Lough ? that is the Irish for a lake , not of a mountain ; I sup- pose ... hill , which my friend informed me was until lately the only pass that led from Dublin , or from Derry to Ards ...
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Sketches of Ireland: Descriptive of Interesting and Hitherto Unnoticed ... C. O. Volledige weergave - 1827 |
Sketches in Ireland: Descriptive of Interesting, and Hitherto Unnoticed ... Caesar Otway Volledige weergave - 1827 |
Sketches in Ireland: Descriptive of Interesting, and Hitherto Unnoticed ... Caesar Otway Volledige weergave - 1827 |
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Pagina 257 - Compared with this, how poor religion's pride, In all the pomp of method and of art...
Pagina 83 - Come on, sir ; here's the place : — stand still. — How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low ! The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles : half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire, — dreadful trade ! Methinks he seems no bigger than his head...
Pagina 258 - Then kneeling down to Heaven's Eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays; Hope 'springs exulting on triumphant wing,' That thus they all shall meet in future days, There ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise, In such society, yet still more dear, While circling Time moves round in an eternal sphere.
Pagina 343 - ... anatomies of death ; they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves; they did eat the dead carrions, happy where they could find them; yea, and one another soon after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves...
Pagina 83 - tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Pagina 9 - Gnomes ! o'er the waste you led your myriad powers, Climb'd on the whirls, and aim'd the flinty showers ! Onward resistless rolls the infuriate surge, Clouds follow clouds, and mountains mountains urge ; Wave over wave the driving desert swims, Bursts o'er their heads, inhumes their struggling limbs ; Man mounts on man, on camels camels rush, Hosts march o'er hosts, and nations nations crush, — Wheeling in air the winged islands fall, And one great earthy ocean covers all...
Pagina 343 - ... their hands, for their legs could not bear them; they looked like anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves; they did eat the dead...
Pagina 20 - ... of this rod, to the end that no evil tongue may find cause to asperse the candour of your actions with blackness, nor any kind of corruption or tie of friendship be able to pervert your justice; therefore, in a lucky hour take the government of this people, to exercise the power given you with freedom and security.
Pagina 84 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord.
Pagina 203 - Imperial rule of all the sea-girt isles That, like to rich and various gems, inlay The unadorned bosom of the deep...