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 páginas |
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... immemorial divided ! A small village , -a venerable castle , -and some beautiful ruins of an abbey , alone remain of a city once great and populous ! Thus , how fragile are the works of man , whether you take him 26 WALKS THROUGH IRELAND.
... immemorial divided ! A small village , -a venerable castle , -and some beautiful ruins of an abbey , alone remain of a city once great and populous ! Thus , how fragile are the works of man , whether you take him 26 WALKS THROUGH IRELAND.
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... castle of Ferns are still grand and imposing . They command an extensive view of the country . We were shewn in them a small apartment on the ground - floor , still very perfect , and which seems to have been a royal chapel , or some ...
... castle of Ferns are still grand and imposing . They command an extensive view of the country . We were shewn in them a small apartment on the ground - floor , still very perfect , and which seems to have been a royal chapel , or some ...
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... castle , or the moss - grown cottage , are always a fine part of the rural picture . The Kilkenny mountains ' appear to advantage in this walk . We passed rapidly along a dry and stony road , and soon 70 WALKS THROUGH IRELAND.
... castle , or the moss - grown cottage , are always a fine part of the rural picture . The Kilkenny mountains ' appear to advantage in this walk . We passed rapidly along a dry and stony road , and soon 70 WALKS THROUGH IRELAND.
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... castle stands in mournful solitude at some dis- tance . Some small mountains hang over the Barrow , under which you pass along its banks towards this town . The whole population here and in the surrounding country is Catholic . Graig ...
... castle stands in mournful solitude at some dis- tance . Some small mountains hang over the Barrow , under which you pass along its banks towards this town . The whole population here and in the surrounding country is Catholic . Graig ...
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... castles on the way . It was a good corn country through which we passed , and the people were industrious and civil . There is in ge- neral , however , in the county of Wexford , a want of green crops , and the land is too much ex ...
... castles on the way . It was a good corn country through which we passed , and the people were industrious and civil . There is in ge- neral , however , in the county of Wexford , a want of green crops , and the land is too much ex ...
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Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 504 - Cheerful at morn, he wakes from short repose, Breathes the keen air, and carols as he goes...
Página 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.
Página 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
Página 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...
Página 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.