Ireland: Its Scenery, Character and History, Volume 3Francis A. Niccolls, 1911 |
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... hand of Time into forms grotesque - such are a few of the varied gifts with which Nature has bounti- fully enriched Woodstock . Art has been busy among them , but with so rare a skill that it seems to have laboured , always , under the ...
... hand of Time into forms grotesque - such are a few of the varied gifts with which Nature has bounti- fully enriched Woodstock . Art has been busy among them , but with so rare a skill that it seems to have laboured , always , under the ...
Pagina 4
... hand of the Destroyer has dealt more leniently than with others , contributed to leave upon our minds a very forcible impression of their singular grandeur and beauty : they stand alone in their magnificence ; there is no object within ...
... hand of the Destroyer has dealt more leniently than with others , contributed to leave upon our minds a very forcible impression of their singular grandeur and beauty : they stand alone in their magnificence ; there is no object within ...
Pagina 5
... hands - to the present day . The principal attraction in the castle is the picture - gallery - a noble apartment , about 150 feet in length ; it contains a fine collec- tion of portraits . They illustrate the long career of this ...
... hands - to the present day . The principal attraction in the castle is the picture - gallery - a noble apartment , about 150 feet in length ; it contains a fine collec- tion of portraits . They illustrate the long career of this ...
Pagina 23
... hands . " Well , " she replied , " Billy is mighty teazing , and that's the thruth , and a shocking thief ; but , God help him , he has no better sense ; and some- how , I don't know how it is , but we'll be mighty lonesome without the ...
... hands . " Well , " she replied , " Billy is mighty teazing , and that's the thruth , and a shocking thief ; but , God help him , he has no better sense ; and some- how , I don't know how it is , but we'll be mighty lonesome without the ...
Pagina 24
... to take her way to the cliffs , well knowing that a tempest was at hand ; and no fisherman would launch his boat upon the waters , if he caught sight of the flutter of her red cloak at the corner of a rock . She looked a 24 IRELAND.
... to take her way to the cliffs , well knowing that a tempest was at hand ; and no fisherman would launch his boat upon the waters , if he caught sight of the flutter of her red cloak at the corner of a rock . She looked a 24 IRELAND.
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Pagina 305 - Now winding bright and full, with naked banks; And seats, and lawns, the Abbey and the wood, And cots, and hamlets, and faint city-spire; The Channel there, the Islands and white sails, Dim coasts, and cloud-like hills, and shoreless Ocean It seem'd like Omnipresence!
Pagina 260 - A weight of awe not easy to be borne Fell suddenly upon my spirit, cast From the dread bosom of the unknown past...
Pagina 153 - Catholics, condemned to beggary and to ignorance in their native land, have been obliged to learn the principles of letters, at the hazard of all their other principles, from the charity of your enemies.
Pagina 388 - where was a strong Castle very well manned and provided for by the Enemy; and, close under it, a very fair House belonging to the same worthy person, — a Monastery of Franciscan Friars, the considerablest in all Ireland: they ran away the night before we came. We summoned the Castle; and they refused to yield at the first ; but upon better consideration, they were willing to deliver the place to us : which accordingly they did ; leaving their...
Pagina 321 - To the house of William, my son. Hie all the wealth of Kilkenny town.
Pagina 331 - Go tell your master I despise his offer ; tell him that honour and conscience are dearer to a gentleman than all the wealth and titles a prince can bestow.
Pagina 288 - Has love to that soul, so tender. Been like our Lagenian mine, Where sparkles of golden splendour All over the surface shine...
Pagina 224 - At last he sat down, rested his elbows on his knees, and covered his face with his hands so as to shut out the scene altogether.
Pagina 315 - I would not exchange my dead son for any living son in Christendom.
Pagina 157 - It was a common practice with them to go in parties about the country, swearing many to be true to them, and forcing them to join by menaces, which they very often carried into execution. At last they set up to be general redressers of grievances — punished all obnoxious persons who advanced the value of lands, or...