The Irishman in CanadaS. Low, Marston & Company, 1877 - 692 páginas |
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... letter , helped me to understand the great period of which he could truly say - pars magna fui . For esti- mating the character and genius of Sullivan , he gave me invaluable data . From Mr. Thomas Maclear , and Mr. Thomas A. Maclear ...
... letter , helped me to understand the great period of which he could truly say - pars magna fui . For esti- mating the character and genius of Sullivan , he gave me invaluable data . From Mr. Thomas Maclear , and Mr. Thomas A. Maclear ...
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... letters and arts sprang up rapidly in its train . The science and Biblical knowledge which fled from the Con- tinent took refuge in famons schools , which made Durrow and Armagh the uni- versities of the West . The new Christian life ...
... letters and arts sprang up rapidly in its train . The science and Biblical knowledge which fled from the Con- tinent took refuge in famons schools , which made Durrow and Armagh the uni- versities of the West . The new Christian life ...
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... letter is now extant from Lord Mornington ( afterwards Lord Wellesley ) to Lord Camden , declining a commission for his brother Arthur in the army , on the same grounds . When he became Aide - de - Camp to Lord Westmoreland , the Lord ...
... letter is now extant from Lord Mornington ( afterwards Lord Wellesley ) to Lord Camden , declining a commission for his brother Arthur in the army , on the same grounds . When he became Aide - de - Camp to Lord Westmoreland , the Lord ...
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... letters was born to Berkeley , in America . His house " Whitehall " still stands . He loved to read and meditate in a snug retreat among the rocks which project over Narraganset Bay . It was while seated here those noble lines occurred ...
... letters was born to Berkeley , in America . His house " Whitehall " still stands . He loved to read and meditate in a snug retreat among the rocks which project over Narraganset Bay . It was while seated here those noble lines occurred ...
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... letter to " The People of Ireland , " urging them to refuse to join in the war against the colonies . Franklin was a bosom friend of Charles Thompson , * who wrote out the declaration of independence from Jefferson's draft . The first ...
... letter to " The People of Ireland , " urging them to refuse to join in the war against the colonies . Franklin was a bosom friend of Charles Thompson , * who wrote out the declaration of independence from Jefferson's draft . The first ...
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Página 183 - FAINTLY as tolls the evening chime Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time. Soon as the woods on shore look dim, We'll sing at St Ann's our parting hymn...
Página 203 - Tis a note of enchantment ; what ails her ? She sees A mountain ascending, a vision of trees ; Bright volumes of vapour through Lothbury glide, And a river flows on through the vale of Cheapside.
Página 177 - What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.
Página 128 - To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way; For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast : keep then the path ; For emulation hath a thousand sons, That one by one pursue : If you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost...
Página 183 - The rapids arc near and the daylight's past. Why should we yet our sail unfurl? There is not a breath the blue wave to curl, But, when the wind blows off the shore, Oh, sweetly we'll rest our weary oar. Blow, breezes, blow, the stream runs fast, The rapids are near and the daylight's past. Utawas
Página 563 - And love of Ombre, after death survive. For when the Fair in all their pride expire, To their first elements their souls retire. The sprites of fiery termagants in flame Mount up, and take a Salamander's name.
Página 24 - The country was portioned out among the captains of the invaders. Strong military institutions, closely connected with the institution of property, enabled the foreign conquerors to oppress the children of the soil. A cruel penal code, cruelly enforced, guarded the privileges, and even the sports, of the alien tyrants. Yet the subject race, though beaten down and trodden under foot, still made its sting felt. Some bold men, the favourite heroes of our oldest ballads, betook themselves to the woods,...
Página 23 - The battle of Hastings, and the events which followed it, not only placed a Duke of Normandy on the English throne, but gave up the whole population of England to the tyranny of the Norman race. The subjugation of a nation by a nation has seldom,, even in Asia, been more complete.
Página 268 - Search not to find what lies too deeply hid, Nor to know things whose knowledge is forbid ; Nor climb on pyramids, which thy head turn round Standing, and whence no safe descent is found.
Página 128 - Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes : Those scraps are good deeds past; which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done...